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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

(2015) PG 8PM, CH4

The formula of the original is re-created for this sentimental yet charming sequel. Richard Gere is the new boy joining Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy and other British stars in Jaipur as they try to make the most of later life. The Bourne Identity

(2002) 12

10.20PM, ITV

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The World’s End (2013) 15

10.25PM, CH4

Simon Pegg (above) is a man-child organising a reunion pub crawl in his home town. He realises it must finally be time to grow up when robots from outer space try to take over the world.

Tower Block (2012) 15

11.05PM, 5STAR

Sheridan Smith and Jack O’Connell head the cast in this British thriller, set in a grim tower block where residents are picked off, one by one, by a sniper. Loses ground after a strong start. Behind The Candelabra

(2013) 15

11.30PM, BBC2

There was no one quite like Liberace, and Michael Douglas’s portrayal of the ostentatious showman pianist hits all the right notes. Steven Soderbegh’s film celebrates his eccentricity as well as his loose grasp of reality. Matt Damon and Rob Lowe are unforgettable in support.

Nacho Libre

(2006) 12

12 MIDNIGHT, ITV4

Jack Black (above) plays to his super-sized strengths as a Mexican cook who leads a double life as a masked luchador (wrestler). Enjoyably silly and colourfully OTT comedy from the team behind Napoleon Dynamite. Populaire

(2012) 12

1.20AM, BBC2

This French romantic comedy is a delightfully twee love letter to 1950s Hollywood. In a

Mad Men-style world of noisy typewriters and office smoking, Rose is a small-town girl who, with a push, takes up competitive typing. SUNDAY

Problem 9.25AM, ITV Child (1990) PG

Michael much ended Oliver, with whose Problem acting Child career 2, stars pretty as Junior looks like (above), butter the wouldn’t mischievous melt, but orphan whose who adoptive Yasbeck) parents endure no (John end Ritter of trouble and Amy with him.

Despicable Me 2 (2013) U

4.45PM, ITV

Former baddie Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) is recruited by the Anti-Villain League in this fun sequel. Given gadgets and an assistant (voiced by Kristen Wiig), he tries to thwart the infamous bad guy El Macho and rescue his loyal Minions, who have been kidnapped. Professor Marston And The Wonder Women (2017) 15 10PM, SKY PREMIERE

PREMIERE After the success of superhero Wonder Woman’s comeback movie, here’s the story of the forward-thinking academic who created her, psychologist William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans, above). His own unusual appreciation of women no doubt played a part in his vision. The Box (2009) 12 10.55PM, BBC2 Based on a Richard Matheson story, this mystery has an intriguing premise, but develops from moral dilemma into a wild flight of fancy. Cameron Diaz and James Marsden are a couple offered big bucks – all they have to do is press a big red button... The Eagle (2011) 12 11.05PM, CH4

What did the Romans ever do for us? They provided the perfect excuse for epics such as this – a blustering tale based on Rosemary Sutcliff’s children’s novel. Channing Tatum is the young centurion searching Britain for the eagle standard once lost by his father’s legion. Hot Tub Time Machine 2

(2015) 15 11.15PM, CH5 Wisely, perhaps, the first film’s biggest star, John Cusack, does not return for this soggy sequel. The friends have moved on to great things, but trouble is soon knocking on their door, and it’s time to get back in the bubbles. Gillian Jacobs and Adam Scott (right) star.

MONDAY The Return Of Frank James (1940) U

10AM, TALKING PICTURES TV

With brother Jesse dead at the end of the 1939 film, Frank (Henry Fonda) seeks revenge on the men who shot him down. This sequel, directed by Fritz Lang, is slightly flimsy in its set-up and historically inaccurate (if that matters), but Fonda is on charismatic form. Thor

(2011) 12 8PM, E4

Australian hunk Chris Hemsworth’s grounded Norse god (below) has his name on the title, but Brit Tom Hiddleston, as Thor’s troublesome adoptive brother, Loki , won fans too in this first film, directed with flair by Kenneth Branagh. The villains are the chilling Frost Giants. True Grit (2010) 15 9PM, FILM4

The Coen brothers’ remake comes within a hair’s breadth of being as good as Henry Hathaway’s 1969 original. Newcomer Hailee Steinfeld is excellent as the young girl looking for a shooter to avenge her murdered father, and finding one in Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges).

Dead Man’s Kit (1980) 12

9PM, TALKING PICTURES TV

British thriller starring Larry Lamb and Cherie Lunghi. There’s the powerful hint of coverup after the death of a sailor is declared an accident by the Navy. Lamb’s chief petty officer is determined to get to the truth. The Children (2008) 15

11PM, HORROR

A decent British spine-tingler with a retro feel. Eva Birthistle and Stephen Campbell Moore are two of the parents at the mercy of their deranged kids (Freddie Boath, above, among them) at Christmas. (Freeview 70, Freesat 138, Sky 317, Virgin 149)

The Grandmaster (2013) 15

2AM, CH4

Chinese historical epic – a biopic of martial artist Ip Man (Tony Leung) – from darling of the art house, director Wong Kar-wai. Cinematography and fight choreography are stunning. TUESDAY

The 6.55PM, Last SONY Five MOVIE Years CHANNEL (2015) 12

Film romance version between of a hit Jamie musical, and charting Cathy (Jeremy the Jordan declining and marriage Anna Kendrick, is seen in above). a nonlinear Their timeline from each individual perspective. (Freeview 32, Sky 321, Virgin 425)

The Dater’s Handbook (2016) PG

7.10PM, PARAMOUNT NETWORK

Hallmark TV movie starring Meghan Markle, before she joined ‘the Firm’. Like all her screen appearances, this will come under greater scrutiny than it perhaps deserves – a romance of the lightest weight. (Freeview 57, Sky 159)

Rush Hour 2 (2001)

12 9PM, ITV4 Fast-talking Chris Tucker is back to buddy up with martial arts master buffoon Jackie Chan (left) in this sequel. The action shifts to a Triad-packed Hong Kong and, with Chan and Tucker’s cops in charge, it plays out in much the same way as the first film. Well, if you’ve got a winning formula, why change it?

The Take (2016) 15 9PM, FILM4

Neatly paced Euro-thriller with a few decent action sequences (especially a rooftop chase and a barroom brawl) and two engaging leading men. Idris Elba is the CIA agent who teams up with Richard Madden’s slippery pickpocket to stop bombs going off in Paris.

The Glimmer Man (1996) 18

10.55PM, ITV4

An average action thriller starring Keenen Ivory Wayans and Steven Seagal as, respectively, a hard-nut LAPD cop and a New Age devotee and former secret agent known as the

Glimmer Man. This mismatched duo have to set aside their differences to hunt a serial killer.

Prince Avalanche (2013) 15

12.55AM, FILM4

PREMIERE Offbeat comedy starring Paul Rudd as Alvin (right), a serious type who is repairing traffic lines with his girlfriend’s more fanciful brother (Emile Hirsch). It’s 1988, so the conversation is enjoyably retro as a friendship grows amid their pedestrian work and their stark, isolated surroundings.

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Falling 9PM, ITV4 Down (1993) 18

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9PM, Channing SONY Tatum MOVIE stars CHANNEL as a former soldier turned from Roland Capitol Emmerich Hill cop in (Independence this booming actioner Day). Visiting John Cale the (Tatum, White House above) with finds his he’s daughter, the best hope to save the President (Jamie Foxx). Blitz (2011) 18 11PM, 5STAR

British crime thriller starring Jason Statham as a hot-headed detective investigating a serial killer who is targeting police officers in London. He and his fellow cops – played by Paddy Considine, Zawe Ashton and Luke Evans – might have to play dirty to get their man. Pride And Prejudice And Zombies (2016) 15 11.15PM, FILM4

This horror comedy makes a merry medley of Jane Austen’s literary classic and works of bloodthirsty zombie fiction. Lily James plays Elizabeth Bennet (above), with Sam Riley as Darcy. In an England ravaged by a most inconvenient plague, Elizabeth takes up arms.

Goon (2011) 15 12.55AM, CH4

Unusual sports comedy in which Seann William Scott plays a hot-headed loafer who gets a new lease of life on the ice hockey rink, answering violence with violence as an enforcer. His rise to the top shadows the fall of a fellow hockey star, played by Liev Schreiber. THURSDAY

Love Me Tender (1956) U

9.20AM, TALKING PICTURES TV

Repackaged to cash in on the chart success of star Elvis Presley (above), this western was originally intended as a straight drama, a biopic of the four Reno brothers, a gang of outlaws famous for their Civil War-era train robberies. Presley’s presence overshadows it all. Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon (1942) PG 1.10PM, FILM4

Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock, with Nigel Bruce’s faithful Watson at his side, fights dastardly nemesis Professor Moriarty (Lionel Atwill) in this Second World War-set espionage story. In the fourth of 14 highly successful Rathbone/Bruce films, Holmes has a coded message to decipher. Sgt Bilko

(1996) PG

4.55PM, SONY MOVIE CHANNEL

Not one of Steve Martin’s finest moments – along with his stab at Inspector Clouseau in the 2006 Pink Panther reboot, this is one of the comic actor’s biggest turkeys. Reviving the character made famous by Phil Silvers, the film has plenty of gags, but scaling up from the small screen doesn’t entirely pay off. Clash Of The Titans

(2010) 12

9PM, CH5

Remake of the 1981 film, with CGI effects replacing the stop-motion work of the great Ray Harryhausen. Sam Worthington stars as Perseus, the hero caught in the middle of an almighty battle of the Gods. Ralph Fiennes as Hades and Liam Neeson as Zeus stand out in the cast. The Shawshank Redemption

(1994)

15 9PM, ITV4

An eerie calm runs through this magnificent prison drama, based on a novella by Stephen King. Tim Robbins is the lifer who slowly, fastidiously plots his escape, while Morgan Freeman’s wonderful voice narrates. Only God Forgives

(2013) 18 9PM, SONY MOVIE CHANNEL

This Bangkok-set oedipal nightmare from Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn has an infernal quality and extremely violent scenes. Kristin Scott Thomas is unrecognisable as the monstrous mob mother, wanting revenge for the death of her favourite son. Ryan

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Valentine’s 8PM, ITVBE Day (2010) 12

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Jackie Brown (1997) 15

11.05PM, PARAMOUNT NETWORK

Quentin Tarantino spins Elmore Leonard’s Rum Punch into a deeply involving blaxploitation homage. Pam Grier (below) stars as an airline stewardess who keeps bad company, but finds a friend in Robert Forster’s bail bondsman. Shanghai Noon (2000) 12 11.35PM, BBC1 East meets West in this slapstick twist on the buddy-cop comedy, with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson the team making a fiscally successful Wild West/kung fu combo. There was a sequel, Shanghai Knights, and rumours of a third film.

Let’s Be Cops (2014) 15

12.35AM, CH4

Chaotic comedy that recycles the buddycop genre, with losers making good. Damon Wayans Jr and Jake Johnson are the slackers impersonating LA police officers, and having a blast. Films by Simone Andrews