SATURDAY

My Old Lady

(2014) 12

9PM, BBC2

See The Big Movie (right).

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

(2014) 12 9PM, CH4

We’ve come a long way since the latex and make-up of the original 1968 film. In this second in the reimagined series, chimpanzee leader Caesar (below), played by Andy Serkis under a layer of stunningly realistic special effects, seems as alive as the human characters.

The Boat That Rocked

(2009) 15 10.45PM, ITV Richard Curtis tunes into the glory days of 1960s pirate radio in this hedonistic comedy. With loud music and even louder clothing, this is buffed and polished in classic Curtis style.

Albert Nobbs

(2011) 15

11.30PM, BBC2

Glenn Close is a butler in 19th-century Ireland – a butler who is a woman passing as a shy, softly spoken man. Close’s strangely pickled looks are a distraction, and the story isn’t so much far-fetched as far too overwrought.

Surrogates

(2009) 12 11.35PM, CH4 Sci-fi murder mystery, set in a world where lives can be lived through robotic surrogates, which take an idealised form of their owners. Bruce Willis (whose surrogate has hair) is an FBI agent investigating a murder, with Rosamund Pike (below, with Boris Kodjoe) as his wife.

Return From The River Kwai

(1989) 15 12.15AM, BBC1 Set after the original bridge was destroyed (but not a sequel), this war drama finds Allied PoWs (Edward Fox, et al) sticking together to survive whatever their sadistic camp commandant (George Takei) has in store.

Youth Without Youth

(2007) 15

1.15AM, BBC2

Tim Roth stars in Francis Ford Coppola’s messy fantasy about a Romanian professor for whom ageing is reversed. Sadly, it becomes too bogged down by the weight of its ideas.