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The best of the DIRECTV primetime lineup

If it started within BC on TV’s 6pm-10pm primetime, Sacha Baron Cohen’s hilarious-but-offensive stoner comedy (The Brothers Grimsby, 5.55pm MaxP) would have been in serious contention.

Today’s Number One Film:

Picture courtesy The Motion Pictures.comShutter Island BEST FILM OF THE DAY, 6.40pm Fox Movies. Watch this if you liked Inception, Memento or The Matrix. A contender for Best American Film of 2010, and almost certainly the Most Imaginative, this is the film Martin Scorsese should have got the Oscar for, not The Departed; you spend the first four reels thinking, “WTF?” and the last reel going, “Wow!” The less said about the plot, the more the viewer will enjoy its unfolding. Almost unbelievably, in the nearly five years since September 2012 that this incarnation of BC on TV has been running, this film has been chosen only once before, a reflection, not of its quality, but of how relatively rarely it screens on cable and DirecTV. Don’t miss today’s chance, if you’re lucky enough never to have seen it before. Directed by Martin Scorsese/ 2010/ USA/ Thriller-Mystery-Fantasy/ 138 mins/ R for disturbing violent content, language and some nudity.


JUST NOSED OUT:

Foxcatcher (Bio-Drama), 9pm Max; Donnie Brasco (Bio-Crime), 10pm TCM; Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Superhero), 10pm TNT; Johnny English Reborn (Action-Comedy), 9.05pm CnCl; Inherent Vice (Crime-Dark Comedy), 8.30pm MaxP; Night Passage (Western), 8pm FoxClas; Stagecoach (Western - 1966 version), 9.30pm FoxClas.

BEST Pay Per View BET: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

*Starred films have been chosen in the last year. ** Double-starred films have been chosen in the last two months.

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