Here are the best movies airing on TV this week
With our new column, you’ll never miss a movie airing on TV again. For anyone who has ever stumbled upon one of JOE’s daily ‘movie on TV’ articles too late, missing our film picks as they were airing on television, this is the column for you. We have taken your feedback on board, and we […]
2 weeks ago
People are discovering classic war movie on streaming after The Odyssey
Written by one of the creators of Game of Thrones, Christopher Nolan was once set to direct the film. The 2004 action war movie Troy is having a surge of popularity that coincides with the release of Christopher Nolan’s smash-hit epic The Odyssey. Both are adaptations of Ancient Greek poems credited to Homer. The Odyssey […]
1 month ago
‘The best war movie of all time’ is airing on TV tonight
It’s also one of the best films of all time. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 7 August) is Apocalypse Now, the ’70s war epic from co-writer and director Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather trilogy). The film is set in the late 1960s in Vietnam and tells the story of Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), a US soldier who is […]
1 year ago
One of the best war movies of the 21st century is on TV tonight
In fact, it recently made a list of the 20 best war films of all time. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 19 February) is Fury, the 2014 hard-hitting World War II drama with Brad Pitt. Set in April 1945 when the Allies are making their final push in the European theatre, the film […]
1 year ago
The best war film ever made is among the movies on TV tonight
The horror… The horror… Crack open the eggs, it’s Easter Sunday. There’s no better way to celebrate the bank holiday weekend than with some great movies on TV. Among the films tonight is arguably the best war movie ever made – Apocalypse Now. The 1979 war epic directed by Francis Ford Coppola is one of the most […]
2 years ago