It stars an Oscar-winner and hails from the director of The Hurt Locker and Point Break.
Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 12 November) is Blue Steel, the brilliant 1990 action thriller from Oscar-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Point Break).
The film stars Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once) as rookie cop Megan Turner.
When she kills a convenience store robber, she does not notice when psychopathic commodities trader Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver, Reversal of Fortune) takes the dead man’s gun.
“With no weapon at the crime scene, the police hold Turner accountable for killing an unarmed man. Meanwhile, Hunt uses the stolen weapon to go on a killing spree,” the plot synopsis reads.
“Turner teams up with detective Nick Mann (Clancy Brown, The Penguin) to clear her name and catch the killer. An unexpected romance complicates matters.”
Also featuring amongst its cast Elizabeth Peña (Jacob’s Ladder), Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) and Richard Jenkins (Step Brothers), Blue Steel was not a box office success upon release.
This is a real shame as its easy-to-root-for protagonist, terrific performances and twisty script make it well worth seeking out (even if its title conjures up memories of Derek Zoolander posing!).
The movie is airing tonight/tomorrow morning on Film4 at 1.55am.
It should also be available to stream on the Channel 4 website after it airs.
Here are the other movies airing on TV tonight:
Free Guy – Film4 – 9pm
The hit 2021 action comedy about an ordinary guy (Ryan Reynolds) who discovers that he is a non-player character in a massively popular multiplayer online game.
Role Models – Comedy Central – 9pm
In this very fun comedy, Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott play two friends forced to become role models to children after getting arrested.
Bird on a Wire – Legend – 9pm
A ’90s action comedy starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn.
The Hatton Garden Job – Legend Xtra – 9pm
A UK crime film dramatising the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary in London in April 2015.
What’s Love Got to Do with It? – BBC One (except NI and Wales) – 10.40pm
Lily James and Shazad Latif star in this recent British rom-com.
Naked – Film4 – 11.15pm
The hard-hitting ’90s British drama from writer-director Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies) about an unemployed British man (David Thewlis) who vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
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