MORE BIG PREMIERE MOVIES

Gone Girl (2014) 18 Friday 29, 9.15pm, BBC1

David Fincher directs this adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestselling thriller. A film for grown-ups, it strips away sugar and sentiment to reveal a relationship with its bones picked raw by disappointment and seething resentment. Rosamund Pike is the wife who goes missing, leaving her husband (Ben Affleck, right, with Pike) to wonder how it all went so horribly wrong…

Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2015) 12 Saturday 30, 8pm, BBC1

The Marvel superheroes unite for a second ensemble outing, fighting an artificial intelligence that has a god complex, and sees humanity as a plague that must be purged. There are witty interludes in a mostly booming affair.

The Lego Movie (2014) U New Year’s Eve, 5pm, Ch5

The coloured bricks go large for this big-screen outing, and it’s a knockout – the first in what has become a hugely popular franchise. Emmet Brickowski is the humble construction drone building up to his destiny to fight a sticky foe.

Maleficent (2014) PG New Year’s Day, 5pm, BBC1

A visually striking reimagining and prequel for Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, this explains how the wicked witch came to be so cruel. Angelina Jolie, with razor-sharp cheekbones and glistening horns (right), delivers glorious, pantomime villainy in a character who is infinitely more interesting than the young princess (Elle Fanning) she dooms.