TV Movie Guide

Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The World Three, 4pm Starring Jessica Alba. A mother who’s a retired CIA agent recruits two former spy kids to help save the world. Not reviewed.

King Kong Three, 7pm Starring Adrian Brody, Naomi Watts. Director Peter Jackson’s childhood dream realised is an adrenalin-fuelled blockbuster and an absolute feast for the eyes. ★★★★

RV TVNZ 2, 7pm

Starring Robin Williams, Joanna Levesque. This cross-country family holiday flick is occasionally funny, but you can’t build a movie around one star. ★★

A Troll In Central Park M ori TV, 7pm Voice Dom DeLuise. This 1994 animated movie about a troll banished to New York is aimed at young children. ★★

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius Choice, 7pm Voices Debi Derryberry, Megan Cavanagh. Good, old-fashioned family fun with a boy genius who must rescue his parents after they are abducted by aliens. The hit Nickelodeon TV series was spun off from this charming movie which itself was a spin-off from a few 90s animated shorts. ★★★★

LBJ Sky Premiere, 8.30pm Starring Michael Statl-David, Woody Harrelson. This biopic fleshes out the man who replaced JFK with a defining performance by Woody Harrelson, without delving too deeply into a polarising presidency. ★★★

Hedd Wyn M ori TV, 8.30pm Starring Huw Garmon. A Welsh language film about real-life poet Ellis Humphrey Evans, who enlisted in the British Army during World War I despite his pacifist leanings, only to be killed at Passchendaele. It’s a sombre period drama, capturing the feelings of many Welsh people of the time. ★★★★

The Oranges Choice, 8.30pm Starring Hugh Laurie, Leighton Meester. Provocatively plotted but inadequately scripted dramedy in which two members of two different families who are close friends take their closeness to inappropriate levels – much to the chagrin of most of the other family members. ★★ Twilight Bravo, 8.30pm Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson. The vampires here are a far cry from the ones of horror movies and Twilight is aimed squarely at a young teen audience. ★★★

Fool’s Gold TVNZ 2, 8.45pm

Starring Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey. Relatively shallow romantic comedy with Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson as would-be treasure hunters. While these two proved they can deliver the chemistry in How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, something is sadly lacking here. ★★

Concussion TVNZ 1, 9pm

Starring Will Smith, Alec Baldwin. When Bennett Omalu, a Pittsburgh pathologist, first asked some hard questions in 2002 after examining a NFL player who had died at 50 with severe brain damage, he came under considerable pressure to back off. Smith does a great job as Omalu, although the inherent subject material does get overshadowed by the personalities. ★★★

Signs TVNZ Duke, 9.20pm

Starring Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix. What starts out as an eerie, suspenseful tale

about a disillusioned former man of the cloth, who discovers crop circles in his fields, is badly let down by a less-than-satisfying conclusion. ★★★

Lincoln Three, 10.30pm Starring Sally Field, Daniel Day-Lewis. Day-Lewis plays a US President unswerving in his desire to end slavery while wrestling with the unthinkable truth that he might fail. Overall, this is a rare, intelligent piece of cinema. ★★★★★

Addicted To Love TVNZ 2, 10.55pm

Starring Matthew Broderick, Meg Ryan. Dark, slightly twisted comedy about two dumped exes who plot revenge against their former lovers. ★★★

Cradle 2 The Grave TVNZ 2, 12.45am (Sunday)

Starring Jet Li, DMX. When a jewel thief’s daughter is kidnapped, he forges an unlikely alliance with a government agent in a bid to track down both the girl and some diamonds. ★★