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Our movie guy, James Finnegan, looks at some of the movies on RTE and TG4 tonight…
Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma make up the Mystery Incorporated team in Scoob! (Saturday 6.35pm RTE1) in this latest incarnation of the old Hanna-Barbera cartoon.
The team are facing their most challenging mystery with a plot to set loose the legendary Hell Dog Cerberus in ghostly form upon the world.
There also appears to be a greater connection between the two dogs, as well as a link with another famous cartoon character Dick Dastardly – admittedly one of my childhood favourites.
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Starring the vocal talents of Will Forte, Mark Wahlberg, Jason Isaacs, Zac Effron, Henry Winkler, Christina Hendricks and Amanda Seyfried, this is fun enough for the younger audience, somewhat like the original cartoons.
The People vs. Larry Flynt (Saturday 9.45pm TG4) is director Milos Forman’s drama starring Woody Harrelson as the real life US strip club owner who moved into pornography publishing.
Flynt found himself charged and tried in a major obscenity trial, during which he was shot, ended up paralysed from the waist down and turned him into an unlikely champion of free speech and expression.
Also starring Courtney Love, Edward Norton, James Cromwell and Brett Harrelson, there is also a quirky cameo by the real life Larry Flynt as Judge Morrissey.
In the fourth version of A Star is Born (Saturday 9.50pm RTE1), Bradley Cooper co-wrote and directed this Oscar winning romantic drama while also playing fading music star Jackson Maine.
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He happens upon Ally, a nightclub singer songwriter (Lady Gaga), and there is an instant connection, and he wants to help Ally launch her career.
Unfortunately, Jackson has his own demons, and this tempestuous relationship suffers as his career goes downhill as quickly as Ally’s soars.
When this came out we did not know that Cooper could sing, nor that Lady Gaga could act, but they both can and their on-screen chemistry radiates off the screen. Sam Elliott also gives a very consummate performance as Jack’s older brother and manager.
It was nominated and won multiple film and music awards, with Gaga becoming the first woman to win an Academy Award, Grammy Award, BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award in one year.
Enigma (Saturday 11pm RTE2) is set in 1943 when the British code breakers discover that the Nazis have changed their famous cipher code placing Allied ships and sailors in grave danger.
A young genius, Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott) has been enlisted to help break the new codes. However, there are suspicions that there is a spy within the code breaking team, and there is a mystery surrounding Tom’s love, Claire (Saffron Burrows) who has disappeared.
Tom enlists Claire’s housemate Hester (Kate Winslet) to help find what has happened to her.
This is a highly fictionalised story based on some true events, and the mix of truth and fiction does not always work, but it is well worth a watch.
It also features the last soundtrack composed by the great John Barry before his passing. Enjoy!
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