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The best of the DIRECTV primetime lineup

As well as today’s number one film, two other movies - The Revenant (Action-Adventure-Western), 9pm FoxMov and Let Me In (Drama-Horror-Thriller-Young Adult), 7.05pm FoxMov – could have taken the BEST FILM OF THE DAY.

Today’s Number One Film:

Picture courtesy CC Movie ReviewsThe King’s Speech, 7pm HBO Signature. Watch this if you liked Quiz Show, The Queen or The Madness of King George. The King’s Speech won four Oscars (Best Directing, Picture, Lead Actor [Colin Firth] and Original Screenplay), the same BAFTAs (plus Best Supporting Actor [Geoffrey Rush] & Actress [Helena Bonham Carter] and Best Music) and was nominated in almost every other major category; and it was all richly deserved. Based on a fine script founded on largely accurate historical events, the great strength of the film is the way it humanised British royalty, the same group of upper class twits Monty Python would have savaged. Colin Firth, in the title role of the stuttering prince, is nothing short of amazing. Everyone else is almost as good, particularly Geoffrey Rush, as the speech therapist who saved a crown and a family. Sentimental in parts, perhaps, but thoroughly satisfying in the whole, this is filmmaking at its best. Directed by Tom Hooper/ 2010/ UK-USA-Australia/ Biography-Drama-History/ 118 mins/ Rated R for some language.


JUST NOSED OUT:

The Karate Kid (Drama-Sport-Young Adult), 8.35pm Edge; Star Trek (Eric Bana Adventure-Sci-fi), 9pm FoxAct; The Jungle Book (Adventure-Animated-Family), 9pm HBOP; Closer (Drama), 9pm Gldn; Creed (Action-Sports), 9.31pm HBOP; Ant-Man (Superhero), 7pm HBO; A Late Quartet (Drama), 8.15pm FoxCin; The Naked Gun (Stoner Comedy), 10pm TCM.

BEST Pay Per View BET: Fences.

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

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