TODAY'S CHOICES

9GO!, 6.30pm, PG (1995) Two children (Kirsten Dunst and Bradley Pierce) discover an old jungle-themed board game, which releases a man (Robin Williams) who has been stuck in its vortex for 26 years. With him comes a jungle-load of beasts and other effects-laden nasties that terrorise their town. Even for its time the effects were hit-and-miss, and Williams seems vaguely out of director Joe Johnston’s control. 9GO!, 8.30pm, M (2012) Not too many films arrive with a weight of expectation as much as TheHobbit did, but when you combine director Peter Jackson and a $270 million budget, you can see why. Based on another of J.R.R. Tolkien’s books, it tells the story of 13 dwarves, a wizard and hobbit Bilbo Baggins and their quest to re-capture the dwarven homeland from a ruling dragon.