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Dead Man’s Wire to Propeller One-Way Night Coach: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

The Guardian·Simon Wardell·3 days ago
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Pick of the week Dead Man’s Wire The spirit of the Al Pacino classic Dog Day Afternoon is alive and well in Gus Van Sant’s ripped-from-the-headlines drama. Both feature a desperate man driven to extremes, a frantic police operation to contain him and a 1970 media circus that creates an antihero. Bill Skarsgård is all gangly, edgy energy as Tony Kiritsis, a low-level Indianapolis land developer who believes mortgage broker ML Hall (Al Pacino in a superbly unlikable cameo) cheated him on a deal. So he takes Hall’s son, Richard (Dacre Montgomery), hostage using the titular contraption connected to a shotgun. It’s surprisingly funny amid the sweaty tension, with Kiritsis’s delusion that he’ll get away with the crime almost endearing. Friday 5 June, 8am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere Propeller One-Way Night Coach Fly guys … Kelly Eviston-Quinnett and Clark Shotwell in Propeller One-Way Night Coach. Photograph: Apple TV John Travolta’s drama is the definition of a vanity project.…

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