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It’s mid-week and we’re about to start the countdown for the weekend, but in the meantime let’s enjoy some healthy relaxation once another busy day is over. Tonight the free-to-air and satellite TV channels offer us numerous films, some unmissable such as Judy with a very good Renée Zellweger in the role of the legendary Judy Garland (a role for which she won the Academy Award) or the thriller Inheritance starring Lily Collins.
Then there are the first TV shows such as The Northman, an epic film about the Vikings with Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicole Kidman.
The titles not to be missed
Inheritance – Rai 4, 9.20 pm
Director: Vaughn Stein
Cast: Lily Collins, Connie Nielsen, Simon Pegg, Chace Crawford, Marque Richardson
Year: 2020
Synopsis: Lauren Monroe is a young woman who works in the New York district attorney’s office. Her seemingly perfect life falls apart after the death of her father, a finance tycoon. Most of the family fortune goes to her mother and her brother, a politician, while Lauren receives only a small part of the money and a mysterious envelope containing directions to a hidden bunker deep in the woods. Inside the bunker, Lauren discovers a debilitated man on the verge of death: it is Morgan, held captive in secret for over thirty years. Unsure of what to do, Lauren begins to care for him slowly realizing what an incomprehensible situation her father has left behind her.
Judy – Rai Movie, 9.10 pm
Director: Rupert Goold
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Darci Shaw, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Jessie Buckley, Bella Ramsey, Andy Nymani
Year: 2020
Synopsis: Judy Garland, beloved actress and singer, arrives in London to perform at the Talk of the Town. This will be an opportunity for her to remember, together with friends and admirers, the fundamental moments of her glittering career.
The Northman – Sky Cinema Uno, 9.15pm
Director: Robert Eggers
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Björk, Claes Bang
Year: 2022
Synopsis: Amleth is a Viking prince, who is about to become a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who then kidnaps his mother. Fleeing the island kingdom by boat, the boy swears revenge. Twenty years later, Amleth is a Viking berserker raiding Slavic villages, where a seer reminds him of her vow: to avenge his father, save his mother, and kill his uncle. Traveling on a slave ship to Iceland, Amleth infiltrates his uncle’s farm with the help of Olga, an enslaved Slavic woman and sets out to honor his vow.
The other proposals
Ruby’s pearl – Rai 2, 9.20 pm
Director: David Bercovici
Cast: Raechelle Banno, Karina Banno, Gil Bellows, Richard Harmon
Year: 2021
Clash of the titans – Italy 1, 9.20 pm
Director: Louis Leterrier
Cast: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Gemma Arterton, Alexa Davalos, Ralph Fiennes, Izabella Miko, Nicholas Hoult, Danny Huston, Mads Mikkelsen, Jason Flemyng
Year: 2010
Away from the nightmare – Nove, 9.25 pm
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Juliette Lewis, Fred Ward, Bill Cobbs
Year: 2002
Hard Kill – 8pm, 9.05pm
Director: Matt Eskandari
Cast: Eva Marie, Bruce Willis, Jesse Metcalfe, Lala Kent
Year: 2020
A long Sunday of passions – Warner TV
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Andre’ Dussollier, Gaspard Ulliel, Tcheky Karyo
Year: 2004
White, red and Verdone – Cine34, 9.00 pm
Director: Carlo Verdone
Cast: Carlo Verdone, Elena Fabrizi, Milena Vukotic, Irina Sanpiter
Year: 1981
A four-legged policeman – 27, 9.10 pm
Director: Rod Daniel
Cast: James Belushi, Mel Harris, Ed O’Neill, Kevin Tighe, James Handy
Year: 1989
Mystic River – Iris, 21.00
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney
Year: 2003
Bitter paradise – La5, 9.10 pm
Director: Alexander Payne
Cast: George Clooney, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Michael Ontkean, Rob Huebel, Mary Birdsong, Amara Miller, Nick Krause, Patricia Hastie, Barbara L. Southern
Year: 2011
Ice storm – Sky, 21.15
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire, Sigourney Weaver
Year: 1997
The heartbreaker – Sky Cinema Romance, 21.00
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Cast: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier, Jacques Frantz, François Damiens
Year: 2010
