FRIDAY

Rachel And The Stranger

(1948) U

1PM, MOVIES4MEN

Loretta Young, Robert Mitchum and William Holden lend their star power to this softcentred frontier western. Holden is the lonely but reserved widower who hires Young as a housekeeper-cum-bride, before tensions rise when she falls for Mitchum’s rugged drifter.

Patricia Cornwell’s The Front

(2010)

15 3.20PM, CH5

Andie MacDowell dons the power suits of ambitious DA Monique Lamont for a second time in this follow-up to At Risk. It’s more of the same, but there’s a distinct lack of pizzazz.

Men In Black 3

(2012) PG

8PM, E4

Going back in time to save a younger version of his partner, Agent K, Will Smith’s Agent J (above, with Tommy Lee Jones as K) has a 1960s-set adventure that breathes new life into the sci-fi franchise. Josh Brolin as the younger K does a mighty fine impression of Tommy Lee Jones.

Florence Foster Jenkins

(2016) PG 8PM, SKY PREMIERE Warm-hearted comedy drama based on the bizarre life of Mrs Jenkins (Meryl Streep), a tuneless socialite who loved to sing. Her partner and manager (Hugh Grant, below, with Streep) orchestrated a career for a woman who sang all the right notes, but in the wrong order.

Zero Dark Thirty

(2012) 15

12.55AM, CH4

Kathryn Bigelow’s gutsy drama about the hunt for Osama bin Laden makes Jessica Chastain the human face of the war on terror. She’s a CIA operative doing whatever it takes – including enhanced interrogation – to catch the enemy.

Genghis Khan

(1965) PG

1.05AM, BBC2

Romanticised biographical epic telling the story of the mighty Mongol leader. Omar Sharif takes the title role, with support from Stephen Boyd and James Mason.