Movies T.W.A.T.

Weekend Movies T.W.A.T. 13th - 15th March 09

T.W.A.T. means to watch avec telly. This is the Spice Guide to whats on telly thats filmy. Read it and post some comments, what you watched, what you didnt, tell me to stop posting thins crap, your choice.Avec means "with" i know that but rather than "on" and make it T.W.O.T. its T.W.A.T. cos its aesthetically more pleasing.

Another weekend has rolled itself around so here is where to find out what is coming up on the telly if your staying in. Or rather you could probably check the papers too, they have the tv listings, yeah! But it doesnt have the same spin on it you will read here so forget the national press and read on.

Fri 13th Mar 09

Tis Comic Relief tonight so the only competition on terrestial is barbershop on STV with Ice Cube about a Barbershop strangely and get Rich or Die Trying about 50 Cent starring 50 Cent. Oh Dear. Watch Comic Relief.

After a frankly indefferent Cheltenham festival for you writer here Seabiscuit isn't really what i am wanting to see however if it sound good to you 8.05 on BBC3. Sleuth is on ITV3, this sound familiar, it might as its was remade Last year starring Jude law and Michael Caine, this is the original of the remake with Caine in the Law role and Olivier in the Caine role, that make sense? No? oh well then. BBC4 have some right good music doco's in its schedule every once in a while and tonight might be another, Do it Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade Records is on at 9pm, bound to be some good stroies in it at the very least.

Sat 14th Mar 09

Ok, what the bloody fuck, Young Guns II is on five at twenty minutes to six! now if memory serves there is a hooker who rides a horse naked in that one, something tells me that will be edited out, and if it is wahts the point of watching! later on at night there is some good stuff, 9pm sees a battle between C4 and ITV, I, Robot v About a Boy. personally About a Boy wins for me but both have plenty in the tank to entice viewers. lets think about About a Boy, the irritating wee tit who plays the boy Hugh grants character takes under his wing went on and shagged everything in Skins, also in Skins was Dev Patel who only turned up at an audition for something to do, then he went on and starred in Slumdog which ripped the pants off the awards ceremonies this year. Skins therefore is a turning point in something for some folk. There, a well thought out arguement. C4 has another few films on, Ali at 11.10 which gets better and better every time you watch it and sex Lives of the potato men which i am going to try catch cos it cant be as bad as is made out. Also, check out ITV at 11.05 as After Hours is on, a lesser known Scorsese film form 85, interesting as a few Scorsese flicks are on in the next few days but i will get to them when they appear.

Digital channel BBC4 is doing a japanese type season, i know this becasue i have seen some ads over the past few days, Sat night has Kikujiro on at 11.30. personally i know nothing about it but it has takeshi Kitano in it and i have heard of him so we'll go with that. FiveUSA are ripping the piss with Starship Troopers 2 at 10pm and fiver have, wait for it, Dirty Dancing. Any guys reading who are having a night in with the girl, it is possible to delete channels from your digibox so my suggestion is do it, just research the next day adn get it back, dont lose your Saturday night to putting babies in the corner and old men lifting young lassies by the crotch both in the water and in a climatic scene on a dancefloor. Seriously, delete it.

Sun 15th mar 09

Well shiver me timbers, sunday is as impressive a council telly day as Sat! 4.10 on ITV, why its The Neverending Story! join Bastian and Atreyu and all the other weird stuff, that big flying dog thing et al as they try adn save the princess or some balls. Its fucking excellent! 5.35 on five is Superman, the Christopher Reeve one, now i am going to make a wee confession, one of the Superman films scared the shit out of me as a youngster, the one where richard Prior gets turned into a robot or some sort of plastic thing, shat it every time. this one im pretty sure isnt it so i can rest easy. After that, its Talladega Nights! A premiere at 8.15. What a laugh. Ricky Bobby's weans steal it for me when they talk back to their granpa. Genius.

Right, i have taken a new paragraph but its nto because i have moved to digital picks, no, its because the other premiere of the night is on C4 and its called The Departed. Scorsese's Oscar winner (at long last) and its absolutely brilliant. A remake of the Hong Kong masterpiece Infernal Affairs its just as good as its original. You know what, just watch it, if you have seen it who cares watch it again, and look out Infernal, its good too.

Digital isnt too hot tonight, Basic Instinct on ITV2 at 11pm could be interesting in these times where pausing live tv is a posibility, get a wee swatch at shazzas snatch and stick it back over to soemthing else, actually, thats not fair, stones fanny aside its not that bad a thriller as it goes. weekend over.