A Trifecta of What’s Best on the Box for Sunday 12 August 2018
Today’s Number One Film: 
*The Hours 9.30pm Fox Cinema BEST FILM OF THE DAY. Watch this if you liked Closer, House of Sand and Fog or The Ballad of Jack & Rose.
Technically masterful – indeed, marvellous – adaptation of Michael
Cunningham’s novel recreating a single day in the lives of three women,
one in 1923, one in 1951 and one in 2001. A powerful and ultimately
hopeful film although dealing with that entirely depressing subject
matter: the human condition. A hugely enjoyable drama with a
soul-shaking denouement should
A Trifecta of What’s Best on the Box for Sunday 15 April 2018
Today’s Number One Film: 
*Arrival, 10.47am HBO Plus BEST FILM OF THE DAY. Watch this if you liked Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ex Machina or Inception. The French Canadian director who made us all sit up and take notice in 2010 with his first feature film, Incendies, and then rocked us back in our chairs in 2013 with Prisoners, and then bowled us right firetrucking over in 2015 with Sicario returned in 2016 to make us do all three in the same film – just much more slowly. It is perhaps
A Trifecta of What’s Best on the Box for 12 November 2017
*The Usual Suspects, 12.25 midday Fox Classics. Watch this if liked The Sixth Sense, Unknown or The Magician of Lupin.
One of the best thrillers ever made, this extremely clever whodunit
featuring a genuinely stellar cast – Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro,
Kevin Spacey, Kevin Pollak, Chazz Palminteri (and a Baldwin) – has more
twists than a family pot of spaghetti. Any thinking person lucky enough
never
The best of the DIRECTV primetime lineup
The conclusion of season one of Sally Wainwright’s exceptionally good Yorkshire police drama, Happy Valley, screens at the accessible starting time of 7pm on the DIRECTV Channel. If it started within BC on TV’s 6pm-10pm primetime, the Jude Law/ Natalie Portman/J ulia Roberts/ Clive Owen drama, Closer (5.55pm Prmt), would have been in contention.
Today’s Number One Film:
*The Hours 6.25pm Fox Cinema. Watch this if you liked Closer, House of Sand and Fog or The Ballad of Jack & Rose. Technically masterful – indeed, marvellous – adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s novel recreating a single day in the lives of three women, one in 1923, one in 1951 and one in 2001.
A trifecta of the best films on DirecTV & cable
On a great day for wide-ranging film choice, three films that have been the Best Film of the Day before screen a little too early on this Carnival Sunday to get the nod they deserve: 2001: A Space Odyssey BEST FILM OF THE DAY, 6.05am Max; *Lawrence of Arabia, 8.40am Max and **Boyhood, 7.08am HBO2. A Perfect Murder, (6.55am MaxP), the very strong remake of Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder also fails to place for that reason. The only music challenging the soca on DirecTV is Dire Straits: On the Night (9am TCM).
Film of the Day:
The Hours 7.05pm Fox Cinema. Watch this if you liked Closer, House of Sand and Fog or The Ballad of Jack & Rose. Technically masterful – indeed, marvellous – adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s novel recreating a single day in the lives of three women, one in 1923, one in 1951 and one in 2001. A powerful and ultimately hopeful film although dealing with that entirely depressing subject matter: the human condition
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