The best movies to watch on UK TV: Saturday, 23 January, 2021
Take your pick from claustrophobic thrillers, time-loop nightmares, chess dramas and the greatest spy thriller you never saw as TopFilmTip brings you the best films on TV for Saturday, 23 January, 2021.
Some films may require a Sky subscription.
Newlywed journos learn life lessons from long lived loveable Labrador in heartfelt, bittersweet, tear jerking dog drama Marley & Me 2:00pm 5 Star
With their husband/father away, a household of sisters & their mother unsteadily unite in wholesome period piece Little Women (1994) 2:10pm Sony Movies
Nine years after family is broken, each face unique emotional complexities on discovery of their kidnapped son The Deep End of the Ocean 4:25pm 5 Star
Marmalade munching ear-brushing self-taping furry catastrophe seeks London home- guffaw inducing immigration analogy Paddington 4:50pm Film 4
Women of all walks and ages find familial sisterhood around southern salon: tear-jerking, wry-witted, barbed comedy Steel Magnolias 6:35pm 5 Star
Youthful, perpetual squatter Tom Cruise rescues innocent warbling princess from unicorn hunting goblins and Satan in hyperbolic fantasy Legend 6:40pm Horror Channel
Newsreader pursues pirate hooker with help of mayo toasting moron, sex panther and trident melee Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 9:00pm Sky 1
Jason Statham stars when a 1970’s heist goes really right then really wrong in feisty heisty true cockney caper The Bank Job 9:00pm Film 4
IMF overachiever gambles his life- truly astonishing, taut, gender equalising, multi-mcguffin hunt Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation 9:00pm E4
Cryptic criminal causes chaos for killer cop and angry deity in henchman bisecting, gold heisting frenetic fun Die Hard With a Vengeance 10:00pm ITV4
Weight gaining boxer destroys himself & those he loves in pride driven downward spiral of jealousy and underage sex Raging Bull 10:55pm ITV1
Alien engineered brain parasites infect college kids in head splitting, dead dating, slug spitting zombie fun Night of the Creeps 11:00pm Horror Channel
Two brothers return to childhood cult only to discover creeping terror of anomalous space and looping time in curious brain bender The Endless 11:10pm Film 4
Walking fine line between genius and madness, chess prodigy challenges might of Russian empire in politically charged confluence of propaganda and prowess Pawn Sacrifice 11:30pm BBC Two
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Shiny boy and jaded gunslinger flee furry foes and orchestrate attack on interdimensional man-in-black: Stephen King’s The Dark Tower 11:40pm 5 Star
American ambushed in Iraq wakes up in a coffin; with only a phone and a zippo he must escape. Riveting and innovative thriller Buried 12:20am Channel 4
Criminals’ complex kidnapping goes awry amid maelstrom of mistrust, love and greed in twisted thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed 12:45am Horror Channel
Newly recruited South Korean spy infiltrates highest echelons of North Korea's ruling class in exquisitely executed, thrilling labyrinthine true story The Spy Gone North 2:15am BBC Two
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