TUESDAY April 19

The Adventures of Tintin (2011) ✰✰✰✰ (Film4, 4.30pm) Gung-ho reporter Tintin (Jamie Bell) buys a model ship and is plunged into a centuries-old mystery involving Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine (Daniel Craig). Ivan asks Tintin to name his price for the boat but the reporter refuses to sell, sensing the wooden vessel is far more valuable than it first appears. Sure enough, a cryptic conundrum lies within, revealing that “only a true Haddock will discover the secret of The Unicorn”. Blistering barnacles! Assisted by trusty pooch Snowy, Tintin searches for more clues, meeting booze-sodden Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), whose family history holds the key to the mystery of a cursed shipwreck. Steven Spielberg’s animated film is a breathlessly entertaining spectacle, littered with eyepopping action set pieces that would simply be unthinkable as live action. Just a shame the sequel, directed by Peter Jackson, is on indefinite hold.

My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) ✰✰✰✰ (Film4, 6.40pm)

Julia Roberts gives one of her best performances in this enjoyable romantic comedy, which puts a slyly subversive spin on the genre. Food critic Julianne (Roberts) realises that her friend Michael (Dermot Mulroney) is the love of her life – unfortunately, this only dawns on her after he tells her he’s about to marry beautiful heiress Kimmy (Cameron Diaz, who is an equal match for Roberts in the charm stakes). So, Julianne schemes to stop the wedding, even roping in her sceptical friend George (a scenestealing Rupert Everett) to help, but her plotting threatens to turn her from a plucky rom-com heroine into an outright villain.