{"id":311958,"date":"2025-08-02T12:56:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311958\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T12:56:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:56:28","slug":"need-a-weekend-watch-heres-5-great-movies-on-tv-including-thrilling-ride-british-action-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311958\/","title":{"rendered":"Need a weekend watch? Here’s 5 great movies on TV \u2013 including “thrilling ride” British action film"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re looking for something good to watch this weekend, then terrestrial certainly has you covered.<\/p>\n

The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 have everything from a “thrilling” British action flick to a brilliant dystopian nightmare, as well as a historical epic.<\/p>\n

Here, Digital Spy<\/strong> has rounded up five of the best to keep an eye out for.<\/p>\n

Ambulance<\/p>\n

Director Michael Bay’s 2022 heist movie stars Road House’s Jake Gyllenhaal and Aquaman’s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as adoptive brothers who hijack an ambulance after a bank robbery goes wrong, taking two hostages in the process.<\/p>\n

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Universal<\/p>\n

Ambulance<\/a> attracted a mixed critical consensus, sitting at a 67% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, though was more popular with audiences with an 87% score. The Times<\/a> noted that while it is “not Citizen Kane”, it is “‘the’ Michael Bay movie” \u2013 meaning viewers are in for a fun ride.<\/p>\n

Alongside the main two stars, the movie features performances from 3 Body Problem’s Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez and Tell Me Lies’ Jackson White.<\/p>\n

Airing Saturday on Channel 4 at 10.10pm. Available on Channel 4 afterwards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Universal<\/p>\n

Back to the Future Part II<\/p>\n

The follow-up to the sci-fi classic sees Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) travel from the 1980s to 2015.<\/p>\n

However, when enemy Biff Tannen (Thomas F Wilson) gets his hands on the DeLorean and alters history to create a dystopia where he is rich and powerful, the duo must then travel back to 1955 to make things right.<\/p>\n

While not initially the most highly-regarded movie in the franchise (it sits at 64% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>), its reputation has improved over time.<\/p>\n

Airing Saturday on BBC One at 3.45pm. Available on BBC iPlayer afterwards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sony Pictures<\/p>\n

Spectre<\/p>\n

Daniel Craig’s fourth James Bond outing sees him finally go head-to-head with a classic enemy as he investigates the mysterious and sinister organisation SPECTRE.<\/p>\n

Also starring Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz, Blue is the Warmest Colour’s L\u00e9a Seydoux and Marvel’s Dave Bautista, Spectre<\/a> was described as a “thrilling ride” by Solzy at the Movies<\/a>, while New York Magazine<\/a> suggested it will leave you “shaken, not stirred”.<\/p>\n

The sequel wasn’t as highly-rated as its predecessor Skyfall (which sits at 92% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes compared to Spectre’s 63%<\/a>), though Craig’s penultimate adventure as 007 is still worth a watch.<\/p>\n

Airing Saturday on ITV1 at 8.30pm. Available on ITVX afterwards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Universal<\/p>\n

Gladiator<\/p>\n

Regarded as a modern classic, this 2000 Ridley Scott epic features Russell Crowe as former Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius as he is forced into slavery, working his way up to become a gladiator to enact revenge on Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), the son of the late Emperor, for his betrayal and murder of his own father.<\/p>\n

As well as cementing itself with iconic lines such as: “My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius\u2026”, Gladiator was a box office and awards hit, winning five Oscars including Best Actor for Crowe, and was called a “great visual spectacle and first-rate entertainment” by Cinegarage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A sequel<\/a> starring Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington was released last year, which attracted a lower Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> score of 70% as compared to the first’s 80%.<\/p>\n

Airing Saturday on BBC One at 10.20pm. Available on BBC iPlayer afterwards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Children of Men<\/p>\n

This 2006 dystopian movie is set in a future UK where human infertility has led to societal collapse, as a civil servant called Theo Faron (Clive Owen) helps a refugee called Kee (Clare-Hope Ashitey) \u2013 who holds an important secret.<\/p>\n

Based on the 1992 PD James novel The Children of Men, the Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n film has come to be regarded as a modern classic, and holds an impressive 92% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It also packs an impressive wider cast, including Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Pam Ferris, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Charlie Hunnam.<\/p>\n

Airing Sunday on BBC Two at 10pm. Available on BBC iPlayer afterwards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies<\/a>, TV<\/a> and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy<\/strong> as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME<\/a> and Screen International<\/a>. \u00a0Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings<\/a> to Love Is Blind<\/a>, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’re looking for something good to watch this weekend, then terrestrial certainly has you covered. The BBC,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[1380,113905,1331,77,3989,1330,3943,113904,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-311958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-013491d3-f0ff-425f-8b02-23f716795ced","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hasproduct-true","13":"tag-locale-gb","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-shorttitle-need-a-weekend-watch-heres-5-great-movies-on-tv","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114959286266026100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}