Every day we highlight the best film on TV so that choosing a film that can be seen on television becomes even easier. Also this week a number of good films will be broadcast, with our favorite of the week, the true war film Midway (2019).
Featured films on TV week 23
Veronica kicks off the week with Chris Pratt in Marvel film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). The group stands for a new adventure, in which Marvel also introduces us to Adam Warlock, played by Will Poulter.
Then Ed Skrein shines on our scenes with a war film Midway (2019). In May 1942, the imperial Japanese navy launches an attack on the island of Midway in the Pacific. By conquering the island, they have a basis for operations against Pearl Harbor and they can eventually attack the west coast of the US. However, the intelligence service of the American Navy has already worked out their plan. Admiraal Chester Nimitz sends two American Task Groups with three aircraft carriers to set a fall for the Japanese fleet. What follows is one of the most important fights in history.
Wednesday will be science fiction classic Ghostbusters (1984) broadcast. Three scientists lose their jobs at the University of New York and decide to rent themselves out as ghost hunters. When they discover a portal to another dimension, it is up to the Ghostbusters to save the city.
Thursday it is time for Brad Pitt in Snatch (2000). Turkish, a boxing promoter without a license, gets into trouble when he gets involved in the great criminal Brick Top, who wants him to control and resolves it. In the meantime, a diamond robbery takes place, but the 84 carat stone is missing. This means that Avi, the boss who would get the stone, comes to England to look for it, with the help of his cousin, Doug the Head and Bullet Tooth Tony.
8.2Friday The Dictator (2012) to see. A rich and ruthless dictator (Sacha Baron Cohen) from the Middle East is being held hostage. He is being replaced by a naive goat shepherd, who looks like him like two drops of water. With the help of Zoey, a nice generous owner of a Zen Shop, he tries to get his power back. He has to prevent his country from falling into the wrong hands at all costs.
Saturday is celebrated with Platoon (1986). Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) leaves his university studies to take service in the Vietnam War in 1967. Once on the ground, in the middle of the fight, his idealism fades. The disagreement in his unity between Staf Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), who believes that villagers are innovating Viet Cong soldiers, and Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe), who has more sympathy for the locals, puts the soldiers against each other, but also against the enemy.
The week ends on Sunday with Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011). Cal (Steve Carell) and Emily (Julianne Moore) have been married for more than 20 years. But if Cal finds out that Emily had an affair, he moves. He goes to a bar and air here his heart. Jacob (Ryan Gosling), a regular customer at the bar, offers after hearing his trouble to help him: by giving him a makeover and teaching him how to decorate women.
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Beeld: Still ‘Midway’ via TMDb
