BIRDMAN OF

BLUE STREAK (1999) 12

◆ 11.10PM, ITV4 ★★★

Martin Lawrence is a criminal impersonating a cop and finding, to his surprise, that he has a talent for the job. Positioning him as Eddie Murphy Mk II, this comedy sees Lawrence (above) at his likeable best and gurning worst.

THE FAMILY (2013) 12

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2.45AM, CH4 ★★★

Comedy starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro as heads of a crime family, who are relocated as part of the witness protection programme. Their new life – in France – doesn’t stay a secret for long…

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ALCATRAZ (1962) PG

● 5.55PM, SONY MOVIES CLASSIC ★★★★ Burt Lancaster was an actor with huge physical presence, and in no film was it more evident than in John Frankenheimer’s prison biopic. He’s mesmerising as Alcatraz lifer turned ornithologist Robert Stroud (above).

JOHN AND JULIE (1953) U

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6.20PM, TALKING PICTURES TV ★★★ In this warm-hearted family comedy, two cutie-pie youngsters (Colin Gibson and Lesley Dudley) run off to London to see Queen Elizabeth II’S Coronation in 1953.

THE FIRST WIVES CLUB (1996) PG

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7PM, 5STAR ★★★

Three old friends (Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler) are the trio proving that you don’t have to get mad to get even when their husbands leave them for younger women.

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Rubbish

MORNING SHOW MYSTERY: MURDER ON THE MENU (2018) PG

● ★★ PREMIERE With a taste for delicious recipes and for sniffing out crime, TV cookery show host Billie Blessings (Holly Robinson Peete) has her work cut out when celebrity chef Primo Maxx is implicated in murder.

AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957) PG

● 6.40PM, SONY MOVIES CLASSIC ★★★★ Leo Mccarey remakes his own earlier hit, Love Affair (from 1939), and the result is simply wonderful. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr top the cast this time round as the playboy and the singer who fall for each other on an ocean liner, then leave their love up to fate.

AD ASTRA (2019) 12

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8PM, SKY PREMIERE ★★★★

Brad Pitt (above) is on brooding form in this psychological sci-fi drama. He plays an astronaut sent to the farther reaches of space to find his missing father, a man who might hold the key to a series of mysterious and life-threatening power surges.

PREMIERE GOOD WILL HUNTING (1997) 15

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9PM, 5STAR ★★★★

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck made their impressive screenwriting debut with this engaging drama. Damon takes the lead, too, as Will Hunting (below, with Robin Williams) – a wayward lad with hidden depths.

WHY HIM? (2016) 15

◆ 11.05PM, CH4 ★★★ Bryan Cranston is the uptight father having a meltdown when he meets his daughter’s (Zoey Deutch) new beau. Laird is a sweary, ego-mad ‘internet zillionaire’ with zero filter, and is played by James Franco with zeal.

20TH CENTURY WOMEN (2016) 15

◆ 11.20PM, BBC2 ★★★

In California, 1979, a single mum (Annette Bening) raises her son, with help from her female tenants. As a snapshot of an alternative ‘family’, there’s much to like, with a strong cast and poignant moments.

2.15PM, CH5