Friday Feeling: Spoilt for Choice
Friday, July 4th, 20083 for the price of 1
Usually picking out the Friday Feeling choice movie isn’t really hard work – with literally hundreds of channels to watch, looking for the pick of the week is like searching for the proverbial diamond in the dog poo; it doesn’t take very long. However this weekend there’s loads to watch – including previous Friday Feeling winner Austin Powers in Goldmember (Saturday 10:00pm, Channel 4), classic con artist comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Saturday 11:10pm, ITV3), and classic Sixties road movie Easy Rider (Saturday 11:05pm, fiveUS).
However it this trio that have topped the list of hits here at Digital TV towers for this weekend’s viewing:
Kill Bill: Vol One (Friday 11:40pm, BBC1) – the first part of Quentin Tarantino’s mile-a-minute reference-a-thon rolls on BBC1 tonight, with Vol Two to follow the same time next week. Uma Thurman stars as the Bride, a powerful former killer-for-hire who is intent on seeking revenge on the titular Bill (David Carradine) and his Deadly Viper Assassination Squad who made her a widow on her wedding day.
The Castle (Sunday 11:55pm, Sky Movies Indie) – overlooked Australian comedy about the Kerrigan family whose blissful suburban existence in their home located next door to the Melbourne airport is threatened when said airport wants to expand. Going by the old adage that ‘a man’s home is his castle’, Darryl Kerrigan, head of the clan sticks it to the man and takes the fight all the way to the High Court. Subtle deadpan humour at its best.
The Last King of Scotland (Sunday 11:05pm, Sky Movies Screen 2) – based on the famous Giles Foden novel of the same name, The Last King of Scotland follows the (fictional) exploits of young Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan as he heads to Uganda, eventually becoming ‘royal physician’ and confidant to Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator fond of brutally repressing and expelling entire ethnic groups and concocting Byzantine titles for himself, such as “Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.”
