With Storm Helene on her way, the evenings are getting noticeably cooler, meaning it's almost time to light the fire and sit down with a glass of wine and a good movie.
Not that we need that excuse.
No, we love nothing more than a bit of light entertainment on a Sunday evening before heading into another busy week and tonight you're spoiled for choice when it comes to what to watch.
With plenty on the telly tonight and a long list of great new releases on Netflix, there's something here for everyone.
1. Dirty Dancing - Virgin Media One, 9pm
Plot: Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
2. The Purge: Election Year – Netflix
Plot: When a presidential candidate lobbies to end a custom allowing one brutal night of violence a year, she becomes a target and must fight for her life.
3. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me - Comedy Central, 9pm
Plot: Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".
4. Life Happens – Netflix
Plot: Two friends living in the trendy Silverlake neighbourhood of Los Angeles try to maintain their lifestyle despite one of them having a new baby.
5. Deliverance - TCM, 9pm
Plot: Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
6. The Hangover – Netflix
Plot: When three friends finally wake up after a wild bachelor party, they can’t locate their best friend, who’s supposed to be tying the knot.
7. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes - Channel 4, 10pm
Plot: A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier.
8. Million Dollar Baby – Netflix
Plot: Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn’t prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life.
9. Byzantium - Film 4 - 10.55pm
Plot: Residents of a coastal town learn, with deathly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought shelter at a local resort.
10. Burn After Reading – Netflix
Plot: In this tale of poorly executed espionage, an ouster CIA official loses his memoir to moronic gym employees, who use it to try to turn a profit.
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