FILM HIGHLIGHTS
SUNDAY Tooth Fairy (2010) E4, 12.55pm
Family comedy, starring Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd and Julie Andrews. Derek is a tough minor-league hockey player who is known for knocking out his opponents’ teeth, thus gaining the nickname the Tooth Fairy. However, after he disappoints a youngster, he is sentenced to serve as an actual tooth fairy for a week — tutu, wings and all.
Flubber (1997) ITV2, 5pm
Family sci-fi fun, starring Robin Williams. Professor Philip Brainard may be a little absentminded, but he is capable of creating great — albeit wacky — inventions. He is desperate to come up with a new source of energy in order to save the college that his sweetheart works at. This leads him to craft Flubber, a bouncy, sentient green blob with a wild attitude.
The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward robert Ford (2007) ITV4, 11.20pm
Andrew Dominik’s western, starring Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck and Sam Shepard. Jesse James has made a name for himself in the Wild West as a notorious outlaw. It is following the daring Blue Cut train robbery that Robert Ford, who has idolised James since he was a boy, looks to track his hero down and join his gang. However, this sets a series of events into motion that will spell the end of the criminal.
MONDAY Evolution (2001) Film4, 6.45pm
Sci-fi comedy, starring David Duchovny, Orlando Jones and Julianne Moore. Two college professors discover a remarkable meteor that crashed to Earth. As they begin to research it, they find that it is crawling with alien life that is constantly growing. Then, the military turn up, looking to cover up the whole thing. However, once the extraterrestrial organism starts mutating into violent creatures, the professors realise it is up to them to save the planet.
Contagion (2011) TG4, 9.30pm
Steven Soderbergh’s tense drama, starring Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Jude Law. The world is thrown into a global panic after a deadly virus begins to spread, killing almost everyone who comes into contact with it. It is up to the doctors at the US Centres for Disease Control to figure out what has caused it, and how they can stop its deadly spread.
Jaws 2 (1978) ITV4, 10.05pm
Thriller sequel to Steven Spielberg’s classic, starring Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary and Murray Hamilton. Just when the people of Amity thought it was safe to go back in the water, a second deadly shark appears from the murky depths. Police chief Brody has to convince the community that it is another predator they are dealing with — one that may be even more dangerous than the last.
TUESDAY The Rewrite (2014) Film4, 6.50pm
Comedy, starring Hugh Grant, Whit Baldwin and Vanessa Wasche. Keith Michaels is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, but he realises he has to re-evaluate his life after being shunned by the industry. He heads to the east coast, where he takes a job teaching at a college in order to pay the bills, and soon falls for a single mum.
Perfect Stranger (2007) TV3, 9pm
Thriller, starring Halle Berry, Bruce Willis and Giovanni Ribisi. A journalist plays a dangerous game in an attempt to expose a powerful businessman as the killer of her childhood friend. She poses as one of his temps in order to get close to him, but quickly finds herself in a deadly line of fire.
The road (2009) ITV4, 10.05pm
John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel, starring Viggo Mortensen. A father and son must find a way to survive in a treacherous postapocalyptic world. They know that they cannot trust anyone, as is made clear when a close call with a group of cannibals sees them having to go on the run. Kodi Smit-McPhee co-stars.
WEDNESDAY The Other woman (2014) Film4, 9pm
Comedy, starring Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton. Carly is shocked to discover her boyfriend is actually a married man. She wants to set things straight, so goes to confront his wife. However, they form a bond, and after a further twist, discover that he was cheating on both of them with another woman. The three scorned women team up to devise a revenge plot.
argo (2012) RTE1, 9.35pm
Ben Affleck’s Oscar-winning drama, which he directs and stars in, alongside Bryan Cranston and John Goodman. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran is stormed. Several employees barely make it out alive and flee to the Canadian embassy. Back in the States, Tony Mendez heads up the team who have to find a way to get them home, and devises a plot so ridiculous that it just might work.
underworld: awakening (2012) E4, 10pm
Kate Beckinsale stars in the fourth instalment of the action-packed vampire vs werewolf franchise. Selene awakens from a cryogenic sleep to discover that the humans have joined the war between her kind and the lycans, and have managed to almost completely wipe out both sides. She has to find a way to get away from them for good and rescue her daughter, who is the key to the next stage of the evolution of her species.
Thursday Jaws 3 (1983) ITV4, 9pm
Action seuqel, starring Dennis Quaid and Bess Armstrong. Mike, the son of Amity’s shark-fighting police chief Brody, is trying to forget about his family’s history, and works at a sea theme park in Orlando, Florida with his brother. However, their past comes back to bite them in the form of the giant shark that finds its way into the park’s attractions. Now they have to find a way to get rid of the maneater before it starts killing.
Let’s be Cops (2014) RTE2, 9.30pm
Comedy, starring Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. Two lifelong friends get their hands on authentic-looking police uniforms for a costume party. They learn first-hand that people think they are actually cops and take advantage of the situation as much they can. However, their antics land them in bother with a dangerous gang of criminals.
The deer Hunter (1978) ITV4, 11.05pm
Classic Oscarladen war drama, starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage. Three close friends from a small town in Pennsylvania enlist with the US Army at the height of the war in Vietnam. As they attempt to adjust to the horrors of the conflict, they are taken captive by the Viet Cong and placed in a squalid prison camp. However, this only marks the start of their hellish ordeal.
friday fast Five (2011) E4, 9pm
Action sequel, starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson. Brian O’Conner and Dom Toretto are back in action, but after being backed into a corner, they must carry out a large bank heist to gain their freedom. Never ones to do things by halves, they assemble their team and launch into a plan to steal the goods — but are tracked by a dogged agent.
Entrapment (1999) BBC1, 11.25pm
Crime drama, starring Sean Connery and Catherine ZetaJones (inset). An insurance agent with her own dark secrets is sent to track down a notorious veteran art thief. She pitches a con too good to pass up, and the two begin training to pull it off.
Austenland (2013) RTE1, 11.40pm
Romantic comedy, starring Keri Russell and JJ Feild. Jane Hayes finds that none of the men she dates can live up to the standards of the men in her favourite novel:
Pride and Prejudice. So she heads to a special resort themed around the works of Jane Austen to find her very own Mr Darcy.
Saturday daddy day Camp (2007) RTE2, 2.55pm
Family comedy, starring Cuba Gooding Jr, Lochlyn Munro and
Richard Gant. The owner of a daycare centre looks to give his son the great outdoors experience so sets up his own camp. Predictably, shenanigans ensue.
The Boxtrolls (2014) RTE1, 6.35pm
Animated adventure, with the voices of Ben Kingsley and Nick Frost. A young orphan who was raised underground by rubbish-obsessed trolls comes into contact with a girl on the surface. Together they set off on an adventure to stop the sinister Snatcher who is looking to round up and dispose of all the trolls.