A Trifecta of What’s Best on the Box for Sunday 14 January 2018
Today’s Number One Film: 
Unforgiven, 8.55am Cinemax. Watch this if you liked 3.10 to Yuma, The Wild Bunch or The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. As lead star and director of this hard but deeply satisfying and unequivocally excellent film, Clint paid back for Heartbreak Ridge, The Bridges of Madison County and
all the other excesses he foisted upon us. This, unquestionably his
magnum opus (no matter how fond you are of quoting dialogue from Dirty Harry) is a brooding examination of
A Trifecta of Today’s Best Films on the Box
Today’s number one film:
Pleasantville, 12 midday MaxU. Watch this if you liked The Truman Show, Groundhog Day or Stranger Than Fiction. An excellent film on all levels, starting with an outstanding script and backed by flawless direction and magnificent performances. Technically it is not only sound but ground-breaking, with the medium of cinema itself being used to make the film’s points, via colour taking over the black & white screen as the spirit of rebellion and free thinking spreads.