Minions: The Rise of Gru is an origin story and an ode to the music of the ‘70s. The year is 1976. A bored teacher asks the children in her class at elementary school what they want to be when they grow up. Gru (the voice of Steve Carrel) is in no two minds. He…
Saturday: Horrible Bosses (2011) ITV, 10.50pm - Nick Hendricks (Jason Bateman) has been denied a promotion by his cold-hearted boss Dave Harken (Kevin Spacey).
Meanwhile Kurt Buckman (Jason Sudeikis) is forced to stand by as the company he works for is run into ground by the owner s cocaine-snorting son Bobby (Colin Farrell), and dental nurse Dale Arbus (Charlie Day) is sexually harassed on a daily basis by his employer, Dr Julia Harris (Jennifer Aniston). So, when jailbird Dean Jones (Jamie Foxx) plants the idea of a chain reaction of seemingly accidental deaths, the three friends are intrigued.
Horrible Bosses is a filthy-minded black comedy that borrows its central premise from Hitchcock s Strangers on a Train, and the cast throw themselves at the material with admirable gusto.