Movies on TV

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Finally, one worth a recommendation. This was excellent, saw it at the old Mornington Cinemas (at the end of Main St), sadly couldn’t survive coronavirus and closed down - punched above its weight for the past 20+ years with the various multi-plexes in Frankston. Know the lovely old owner, rumour is he is setting up a small bar-cinema nearby.

Anyway (sorry!), back to the movie, a surprise. Will be one of Clint Eastwood’s last (if not last) starring and directing movies and a rare anti-hero role, Bradley Cooper and Dianne Weist were also very good supporting in it. Worth a watch/record.

Not to be confused with Sharon Stone’s The Mule (2012), a low budget/indie movie about human trafficking at the US-Mexico border. Although IMO, also a pretty good movie. Has aired on ONE HD before.

This aired a couple of weeks ago, you see it on Seven and Nine particularly. I often wonder if it’s due to not getting minimum ratings target set or advertisers or rights and/or if there’s broadcast delays (last night with Prince Philip example). I think sometimes it might be because they’re about to lose the rights. A couple more recent examples on Seven include A Million Ways To Die In The West and The Boy Next Door, latter aired in exact same timeslot a week apart, curiously both from NBC-U which Nine now have an output with.

Unrelated comment: one of those caps (the 7flix movie promo The Count of Monte Cristo) is from Seven’s old Disney output, yet another title they’ve got rights back to, hasn’t aired in many years although, although hasn’t aired on another network since either.