Choose of the week
13 Lives
The plain details behind Ron Howard’s new movie are extraordinary, even with out dramatisation. In 2018, 12 boys and their soccer coach turned trapped by flood waters in a cave system in Thailand. Because the monsoon threatened, a global operation – together with Thai Navy Seals and two UK cave rescuers – struggled to avoid wasting them. To his credit score, Howard tells the story with minimal fuss; the uptick in stress as the times cross and the acute claustrophobia of the underwater scenes are sufficient to make it gripping. There's star wattage from Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen because the British divers however they're admirably understated, and the Thai folks concerned are given their due, too. Out now, Amazon Prime Video
Theatre of Blood
Vincent Value performs round along with his personal outsized picture on this grand guignol 1973 comedy. He stars as hammy actor Edward Lionheart, who killed himself after failing to win a Critics Circle theatre award for his Shakespeare performances – or did he? When newspaper critics who gave him poor evaluations begin being murdered precisely just like the Bard’s characters, suspicion falls on his daughter Edwina (Diana Rigg). It’s all very foolish, however flamboyantly creative. Tuesday 2 August, 12.05am, Speaking Photos TV
The Band Wagon
The age-gap romance between Fred Astaire’s on-the-slide “song-and-dance man” Tony and Cyd Charisse’s ballet dancer Gabrielle isn’t the classiest of strikes, however this Vincente Minnelli-directed MGM musical remains to be one of many nice putting-on-a-show movies. The fraught creation of a modern-day Broadway remake of Faust is tempered by jolly songs comparable to That’s Leisure and Triplets, and the jazzy, movie noir-spoofing dance piece Woman Hunt Ballet. Evidently, the hoofing is top-notch, with Charisse giving Astaire a run for his cash. Friday 5 August, 1.50pm, BBC Two
Some Like It Sizzling
A double serving to of musical Marilyn Monroe this afternoon. Gents Want Blondes is at 3.55pm, however first up is Billy Wilder’s easy 1959 romantic comedy. Monroe slinks her method by way of considered one of her most well-known numbers, I Wanna Be Beloved By You, however the movie is basically serious about laughs, as Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon’s jazz musicians witness a mob hit and should go on the run disguised as feminine gamers. Lemmon particularly has a ball with the gender fluidity, whereas Curtis does his greatest Cary Grant impression as he woos Monroe’s hapless singer. Saturday 30 July, 1.15pm, BBC Two
Napoleon Dynamite
Nerdy, gormless Idaho teenager Napoleon (Jon Heder) has little to advocate him, other than stubbornness within the face of day by day humiliations. However discovering a buddy in new boy at college Pedro (Efren Ramirez) and a attainable girlfriend in Tina Majorino’s Deb offers him function. Director and co-writer Jared Hess apparently primarily based the movie on his personal experiences rising up, which barely boggles the thoughts as this brilliantly deadpan comedy appears to exist in an eccentric world all of its personal. Sunday 31 July, 6.25pm, 3am, Sky Cinema Cult Classics
Clerks
Slacker auteur Kevin Smith’s 1994 debut is a comical, cynical examine of the McJob, following a day within the lives of comfort retailer employee Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and video store worker Randal (Jeff Anderson). Impressed by The Divine Comedy – ergo Dante – the movie exhibits us a circle of hell reserved for the service sector. The dreariness of the chums’ dead-end jobs is offset by snappy dialogue (the Loss of life Star dialog is priceless), some romantic intrigue and the sporadic look of consumers to serve – if they are often bothered. Monday 1 August, 8pm, Sky Cinema Cult Classics
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Simply as he did with Aliens, James Cameron took a cult basic – this time his personal The Terminator – and blew it up. Larger motion sequences, higher particular results (Robert Patrick’s liquifying T-1000 was a game-changer) and a relatable mother-child setup, plus Arnold Schwarzenegger flipping to the nice facet, make his 1991 sequel a implausible watch to today. Linda Hamilton, pumped up and intense, returns to guard her son (Edward Furlong) from a cyborg killer from the longer term. Arnie is, properly, Arnie – making a advantage of his expressionless robotic character. Friday 5 August, 10.45pm, ITV
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