A Trifecta of What’s Best on the Box for Sunday 7 October 2018
Today’s Number One Film: 
Hombre, 7.10pm Fox Classics. Watch this if you liked Cool Hand Luke, The Wild Bunch or 3.10 to Yuma. A great, offbeat Western includes a contender for Paul Newman’s best role – including Cool Hand Luke and The Verdict – as
the white Apache drawn into a Greek tragedy that reveals all that was
wrong with Manifest Destiny. His performance as a man who chooses to
live and die on his own terms could have given rise to the description
“quiet intensity”.Based on an Elmore Leonard novel,
A Trifecta of What’s Best on the Box for Sunday 29 April 2018
Today’s Number One Film: 
Field of Dreams, 7.05pm Cinemax. Watch this if you liked Millions, Dances With Wolves or E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial.
By far and away Kevin Costner’s best film, this wonderful little
fantasy of a man bringing legendary baseball players to life in his Iowa
cornfield is not at all corny and, more important, avoids entirely the
sentimentality of its chief competitor, Dances With Wolves
(even though the aficionado would expect its subject matter, the
relationship of fathers and sons, to give rise to the most cloying of
Costner’s excesses). Beautifully shot and deftly directed, this is a
A Trifecta of What’s Best on the Box for Sunday 11 March 2018
Today’s Number One Film: 
Locke 10.35am Cinemax BEST FILM OF THE DAY. Watch this if you liked Unfriended, Snowpiercer or the original Michael Caine/Laurence Olivier Sleuth. The best film comparison to represent Steven “Eastern Promises” Knight’s wonderful, and wonderfully tense, film is probably 12 Angry Men, the classic film of conflict set in a murder trial jury room. Locke is even more claustrophobic: apart from a very few establishing shots, the entire film takes place in the front seat of a BMW driving from Birmingham to London. The full cast numbers 12 – like the Angry Men – but you see only Tom Hardy
A Trifecta of What’s Best on the Box for Sunday 4 February 2018
Today’s Number One Film: 
Inception, 6.30pm HBO PLUS BEST FILM OF THE DAY. Watch this if you liked Shutter Island, The Matrix or Pan’s Labyrinth. With
Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing & Mixing Oscars and Best
Director, Screenplay, Music, Special Effects & Best Sci-Fi Film
Saturns, the most imaginative American film since Adaptation
manages to mix visceral, pulse-racing action & tension with real
cerebral satisfaction. Even if you don’t understand it – and, once you
pay attention, you will,