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Screen Watch: Your guide to the best TV movies this week

Here are our picks of movies on TV this week.

WE’VE BEEN SIFTING through the movie options available to watch on TV and streaming services over the week.

Your Historical Drama Pick

Detroit

  • TG4 at 9.30pm today

Movieclips Trailers / YouTube

A raid by a rogue group of police officers in 1967 triggers large-scale riots across the city. Based on real events.

Your Romantic Thriller

Ride or Die

  • Netflix from Thursday

Netflix / YouTube

Rei helps the woman she has been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.

Your Throwback Action Thriller Pick

In the Line of Fire

  • RTÉ 2 at 10pm Friday

Movieclips Classic Trailers / YouTube

Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan was on President Kennedy’s detail when he was shot and is haunted by that day. When he finds out about an assassin’s plan to kill the current president, he is determined not to let history repeat itself.

Your Family Friendly Pick

Cinderella

  • RTÉ One at 6.30pm Saturday

Walt Disney Studios / YouTube

When Ella’s father dies, she finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and two stepsisters. But she sees a spark of hope when the Palace invites all local maidens to attend a ball and a kindly old woman comes to her aid.

Your Irish Drama Pick

Rosie

  • RTÉ One at 9.30pm Sunday

Movie Coverage / YouTube

After the landlord sells her family’s rented home, leaving them homeless, Rosie fights to protect her children but is left with impossible choices.

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    Feb 12th 2016, 5:29 AM

    JESUS H CHRIST WILL YE GIVE IT OVER WITH PUSHING ZOOLANDER ON US!!!

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    Feb 12th 2016, 11:37 AM

    Eh, its called marketing and the studio no doubt paid handsomely for this premium advertising. Get over it brah, this is capitalism at work.

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    Feb 12th 2016, 7:27 AM

    Harry, will you just quit talking pure shite

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    Feb 12th 2016, 9:40 AM

    Zoolander himself… well I am really really really ridiculously good looking I suppose.

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    Feb 12th 2016, 1:55 PM

    Mugatu, excellent, I shall begin my empire in Delvin (or possibly swinford)

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    Feb 12th 2016, 6:57 AM

    Just flip my blonde locks?if only….

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    Feb 13th 2016, 4:02 AM

    Boom! Hansel..so hot right now!

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    Feb 13th 2016, 10:17 AM

    Bit stupid, said I didn’t want to be a supermodel yet ended up with zoolander

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