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Our movie guy, James Finnegan has the pick of the movies on TV today…
The films start today with a sequel (the hint is in the title) is The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Saturday 6.35pm RTE1) is an animated adventure set five years after the first film.
Teenager Finn has rebuilt Bricksburg into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. When Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt) is disturbed by a vision of impending doom, he and Lucy (Elizabeth Banks) must fight to protect their home city from invaders.
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The Green Mile (Saturday 9pm RTE2) reunites the “Shawshank” team of the Steven King novel with the screenwriting, directing and producing talents of Frank Darabont.
Michael Clarke Duncan, in a career best performance, plays John Coffey, a giant of a man on death row.
However, his sensitivity, gentle nature and amazing healing powers makes the Chief Warden Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) begin to doubt that he could be capable of murder.
Also starring David Morse, James Cromwell, Bonnie Hunt, Sam Rockwell, Harry Dean Staunton and Patricia Clarkson in a uniformly brilliant cast, this is highly recommended.
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The End of the Affair (Saturday 9.45 TG4) is Neil Jordan’s period drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore, adapted from the novel by Graham Greene.
Set in 1946, a chance encounter between a man and his former lover’s husband set a tragic string of events in train. Why did the lovers split up? The recounting of their affair lends to long buried feelings being unearthed. Again, great performances and a visual treat.
Liam Neeson has established himself in recent years as a more mature everyman action hero. In Cold Pursuit (Saturday 9.55pm RTE1), he plays Nels Coxman, hard working snowplough driver.
He abandons his quiet mountain life when his son is murdered by a power drug lord. In this film, Nels has a very specific set of skills, which these times are of the hunting variety, which is bad news for the baddies.
His actions also set up a turf war between two rival gang bosses so there is no shortage of action scenes.
The traditional Bank Holiday Clint Eastwood film is Pale Rider (Sunday 12.05am RTE1) where a mysterious preacher with lethal gunfighting skills helps a mining community fight a ruthless landowner. Enjoy!
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