A Trifecta of What’s Best on the Box for Sunday 24 June 2018
This is 40 – Unrated, 9pm HBO Plus. Watch this if you liked There’s Something about Mary, Hall Pass or We’re the Millers. In its 2013 year-end roundup, BC on TV rated This Is 40 the best comedy DVD release of 2013.Five years later, This Is 40 probably just retains the title ahead of We’re the Millers, because
of its sharp script, superb performances – even the kids are perfect –
and the magnificent comic timing of director Judd Apatow. The unrated
version is only three or four minutes longer than the theatrical release
and doesn’t change the story at all
A Trifecta of What’s Best on the Box for Sunday 22 April 2018
Today’s Number One Film: 
Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut (aka The Final Cut), 9pm HBO Plus BEST FILM OF THE DAY. Watch this if you liked Arrival, Children of Men or 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Director’s cuts are usually longer, adding in bits the auteur was
forced to remove by studio executives worried about long runtimes. This
cut was a literal one and improved the original theatrical release
greatly by surgically slicing out its most cancerous five minutes – the
contrived happy ending inane American focus groups and studio bosses
wanted. Perhaps even more important, it removed entirely the Harrison
Ford film noir gumshoe detective voice-over narration, transforming this
version into an altogether fine, all but flawless, film.