Yahoo Movies The best films to watch on UK TV today: Saturday, 2 January, 2021
Choose from real life raids, alternative history adventures and race car heists as TopFilmTip brings you the best films on TV for Saturday, 2 January, 2021.
Some films may require a Sky subscription.
Julia Roberts tries to ruin her friend’s life and imminent marriage because she curiously can’t get a man in My Best Friend's Wedding 11:55am 5 Star
All star cast leads true story of 35,000 troop's assault on German war machine in paratrooping, tank fighting epic A Bridge Too Far 12:55pm Channel 5
Three musketeers plot vengeance upon wicked king Leonardo DiCaprio with help of secret twin in sword stabby fun The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) 2:05pm 5 Star
Spy satellite seeking submariners survive sabotage before battling communist commandos in icy Cold War thriller Ice Station Zebra 2:35pm BBC Two
Bot-battling bereaved boy befriends brother's inflatable automaton in exhilarating and engaging, courageous kids comedy Big Hero 6 3:00pm BBC One
Richard Attenborough stars when fractious desert stranded aircrew must turn their wreckage into working plane The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) 3:05pm Paramount Network
David Lean’s classic PoW epic regarding duty, principles, morale and obsession. Alec Guinness stars in The Bridge on the River Kwai 4:15pm Channel 5
Stranded at JFK airport when his nation ceases to exist Tom Hanks encounters jobs-worths and kindness of strangers The Terminal 6:00pm Channel 4
Charlton Heston stars when a principled knight vanquishes his nation’s invader in Spanish swords and sacrifice historical epic El Cid 6:00pm Talking Pictures
Friendly neighbourhood descends into paranoid chaos in Joe Dante's satanic sardine scoffing 1980's character comedy gem The 'Burbs 6:30pm Horror Channel
Captain handsome and crew overcomes existential ennui by battling WMD wielding lunatic with bikes, beats and shouting Star Trek Beyond 6:40pm Film 4
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Naive, bacon addicted inquisitive clones escape organ-slavery in Michael Bay's jet-biking, high-rise falling exploder The Island 7:00pm 5 Star
OCD city toilet drinker and murderous home wrecking vegetable villain vie for love of country artist in delightfully charming, wickedly wry fun Peter Rabbit 7:10pm E4
Hope and despair, suffering and survival, ice skate dentistry and a ball named Wilson. Unconventional Zemeckis drama Cast Away 8:30pm Channel 4
Clear cut sniper murders uncover a finger biting, chump fighting, muscle car chasing, tough talking conspiracy in Jack Reacher 9:00pm Sky 1
Suspecting neighbour is vicious vampire, teenager wields water, wood and crucifixes against him: gooey, 80's-cool fun Fright Night (1985) 9:00pm Horror Channel
Ethical impaler becomes nocturnal monster to protect his people from foreign onslaught: bat battering sanguine fun Dracula Untold 9:00pm Sony Movies
Amoral gangster brutalises his way round the geordie underworld on mission of vengeance- shotgun shouting bleak treat Get Carter (1971) 9:35pm ITV4
Politically motivated terrorists hijack multinational civilians, single-out and threaten only the Israelis in taut, wirewalking morally equivalent true story Entebbe 10:25pm BBC Two
Wily bike courier Joseph Gordon Levitt tears round New York evading crooks and cops in frenetic fixed-frame macguffin hunting fun Premium Rush 10:55pm Sony Movies
Grieving man’s vendetta spirals into enigmatic identity questioning ultra-violence in unexpectedly intriguing SF Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning 11:05pm Paramount Network
Beach massacre survivor and self-directed killer of killers becomes CIA slayer in unflinching, frenetic race to prevent nuclear catastrophe American Assassin 11:15pm Channel 4
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Pious puritan family’s sins draw eldritch interference- goaty, crow pecked, baby snatching intimate and unsettling horror The Witch 11:50pm Film 4
Seemingly simple redneck robbers plan meticulous NASCAR heist in prison-breaking, one-armed deep-southern fraternal fun Logan Lucky 11:55pm ITV4
A womanising, thieving dirty cop uses every trick he knows to evade an impending investigation in top thriller Internal Affairs 12:10am BBC One
Gunless cowboy and swordless samurai battle despot’s killer gang in stupendously stylised post-apocalyptic beat’em up fun Bunraku 12:50am Sony Movies
The few survivors of vampire onslaught on Alaskan town battle bloodlusting baddies in axe-decapitating, JCB melee 30 Days of Night 1:00am SyFy
Lonely girl’s tentative friendship with bed-bound boy reveals his over-bearing mother’s dark, menacing secret Can't Come Out to Play 2:30am Horror Channel
