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Screen Watch: Your guide to the best TV movies this week

Here are our picks of movies on TV this week.

WE’VE BEEN SIFTING through the movie options available to watch on TV and streaming services over the week.    

Your Sci-Fi Pick

Transcendence

  • Film4 on Tuesday at 6.45pm

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When a leading computer scientist is killed, his colleagues upload his mind into a computer system. He sets out trying to change the world for the better, but the consequences of their actions could signal the end of the human race.

Your Crime Drama Pick

The Snowman

  • RTÉ One on Wednesday at 9.35pm

An elite crime squad’s lead detective investigates the disappearance of a victim on the first snow of winter and begins to fear an elusive serial killer may be active again. The team must connect decades-old cold cases to the latest murder if they hope to outwit this evil before the next snowfall.

Your Thriller Pick

Oxygen

  • Netflix from Wednesday

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Liz wakes up in a cryogenic unit with no memory. Quickly running out of oxygen, she must find a way to remember who she is in order to survive.

Your Family-Friendly Pick

Jungle Beat: The Movie

  • Netflix from Friday

When a lost and lonely alien crash-lands on Earth, his new crew of talking animal friends helps him get back home — and try to save the world.

Your Zombie Pick

World Ward Z

  • E4 on Friday at 9pm

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When the world is hit by a zombie pandemic a UN investigator is sent to uncover where this virus came from and to find a cure before the entire population is infected.

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    May 10th 2021, 6:39 PM

    Transcendence and The Snowman are absolute muck. The Snowman in particular is clearly unfinished and has enormous holes in the plot where scenes weren’t filmed to complete it.

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    May 10th 2021, 8:21 PM

    @Mark Brown: I thought ‘The Snowman’ was really good …. Very creepy ….

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    May 10th 2021, 7:05 PM

    If you have not read Max Brooks fantastic “World War Z” then you should because it will show how bad an adaptation that heap is.

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    May 10th 2021, 7:49 PM

    @Richard Cronin: Apparently there were a load of rewrites, and the original scrip was based off brooks book. If you get a chance read his other one “how to survive the zombie apocalypse” really good too!

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    May 10th 2021, 8:09 PM

    @The Kev in Kevlar: J. Michael Straczynski (the genius behind Babylon 5) wrote the original screenplay, then they just threw it away because there was a delay till filming started. That it just goes to show how much of a feck up that film is, I’ve read the survival guide, I especially liked the comic version “recorded attacks” but I have to say I could not get into his latest book “devolution”.

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    May 10th 2021, 9:00 PM

    @Richard Cronin: I actually quite liked world war z

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    May 10th 2021, 9:33 PM

    @Seán O’Conchubhair: Me too. Listened to the audio book, stuck with it to the end but it bored me to tears.

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    May 10th 2021, 10:02 PM

    @Tommy the postman: I guess there was no need for comments , it just goes without saying “s*um bags”

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    May 10th 2021, 7:17 PM

    Jungle Beat it is so……

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    May 10th 2021, 9:06 PM

    The Snowman….is an absolute mess….awful

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    May 10th 2021, 7:18 PM

    I’d watch the snowman again, good film

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    May 11th 2021, 2:31 PM

    Is fassbender in the snowman? I thought it was good.

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