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SATURDAY CITIZEN KANE (1941) U ● 2.30PM, BBC2 ★★★★★

See Classic Film Choice (right).

ASSASSIN’S CREED (2016) 12 ◆ 9PM, CH4 ★★★

This dizzy clash of sci-fi, history and mysticism follows a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Michael Fassbender stars as the convict with an important ancestor.

FAST & FURIOUS 7 (2015) 12 ◆ 10.50PM, ITV ★★★★

The pumped-up vehicular action franchise hit a high point with this entry, which has some of the best stunts in the series. Vin Diesel’s Dom (below) sure looks like he’s having fun.

COWBOYS & ALIENS (2011) 12 ◆ 11.05PM, CH4 ★★★

Jon Favreau, the actor turned Iron Man director, delivers an enjoyably nutty hybrid of the sci-fi and western genres. Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford are the loner and the cattle baron joining forces against aliens out west. Paul Dano and Olivia Wilde co-star.

THE BEACH BUM (2019) 18 s 11.20PM, FILM4 ★★★

PREMIERE Matthew Mcconaughey finds a role that, at last, fits him like a glove. In this offbeat comedy drama, he plays perpetually stoned poet Moondog (below, with Zac Efron), who is forced to clean up his act. It’s naughty and flagrant, with a touch of heart.

FLYING BLIND (2012) 15 ◆ 11.55PM, BBC1 ★★★

A drama featuring the late Helen Mccrory in the kind of role she excelled at. She plays a brilliant, intelligent woman, an aerospace engineer and lecturer, who embarks on a passionate affair with one of her students.

INTERNAL AFFAIRS (1990) 18 s 12.30AM, BBC2 HHHH

Taut crime thriller, with Richard Gere playing against type as a bad-to-the-bone LA cop who comes under the scrutiny of Andy Garcia’s internal affairs investigator.

SUNDAY 27DRESSES (2008) 12 ◆ 2.50PM, CH4 ★★★

One of Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl’s better movies, this romcom makes very easy viewing. Heigl (above) is the bubbly, lovelorn woman who, after donning 27 bridesmaid dresses, wonders when the white gown will be hers.

THE FASTEST GUITAR ALIVE (1968) PG ● 3PM, TCM ★★★

The one and only film starring Roy Orbison, this musical western follows the Big O’s spy as he sets out to steal gold bullion for the Confederacy at the tail end of the American Civil War. His guitar, of course, fires bullets – and he sings a fine batch of songs.

CHICKEN RUN (2000) U n 3.45PM, ITV2 ★★★★

The first featurelength film from Wallace and Gromit creators Aardman is a cracking POW movie spoof, set on a poultry farm in Yorkshire. Rocky is the rooster plotting a great escape, while Julia Sawalha voices the plucky heroine hen Ginger (above).

SKYFALL (2012) 12 ◆ 8PM, ITV ★★★★★

Daniel Craig’s 007 has his loyalty to M (Judi Dench) tested in this 23rd Bond film (Craig’s third). Directed with great panache by Sam Mendes, it’s action-packed, full of affectionate nods and winks, and gives Bond more to think about than his past missions.

HAPPILY (2021) 15 ◆ 8.10PM, SKY PREMIERE ★★★

PREMIERE This black comedy follows a loved-up couple (Kerry Bishe and Joel Mchale) who irk their friends with their happy, handsy, 14-year marriage. Then, a mysterious stranger makes them an offer…

PET SEMATARY (2019) 15 ◆ 10PM, CH4 ★★★★

PREMIERE The pet cat Church (right), looking a bit worse for wear, featured heavily in the marketing of this film, the second based on Stephen King’s 1983 novel. The Creed family are Church’s beleaguered owners, and their hopes for a fresh start come drastically undone.

MONDAY THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (2016) U n 1.50PM, ITV ★★★

In this adorable animation, New York City pets have adventures when their owners are out of the house. Max is a Jack Russell who gets a rather boisterous new flatmate.

MORNING SHOW MYSTERIES: MORTAL MISHAPS (2018) PG ● 2.15PM, CH5 HH

A double bill of mysteries for Billie Blessings (Holly Robinson Peete), the TV cookery show presenter with a nose for solving crime. First up, there’s a serving of poisoned cake; then, there’s Murder On The Menu at 4pm.

DESPICABLE ME 3 (2017) U n 5.20PM, ITV2 HHH

Colourful animated comedy, catching up with the family Gru. Sacked from the Anti-villain League, Gru tries to keep busy. The arrival of his twin brother, Dru (above, with Gru), is sure to liven things up.

SULLY: MIRACLE ON THE HUDSON (2016) 12 ◆ 8.30PM, BBC1 HHHH

In 2009, airplane captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger made headlines for a spectacular emergency landing on the Hudson river in New York. Tom Hanks stars as Sully (below) in a film that tells that incredible story, and what happened next.

DEADPOOL 2 (2018) 15 ◆ 9PM, FILM4 HHH

The swearing super-antihero, played by Ryan Reynolds, is back. He joins forces with Zazie Beetz’s Domino and others to set a dangerous young mutant on the right path.

TULIP FEVER (2017) 15 ◆ 10PM, BBC2 ★★★

PREMIERE See The Big Movie (right).

DAS BOOT (1981) 15 ◆ 11.05PM, TCM ★★★★

Gritty German classic, based on a 1973 novel by Lothar-gunther Buchheim, exploring the tedium and terror of serving on a Second World War U-boat. Wolfgang Petersen (Outbreak) directs.

TUESDAY THE MAN FROM LARAMIE (1955) U ● 11AM, FILM4 ★★★★

James Stewart and director Anthony Mann team up for their fifth and final western, which tackles masculinity head on. Stewart (above, with Cathy O’donnell) is – once again – a lone hero with issues, riding into a family feud while pursuing his own vendetta.

THE WRONG BOX (1966) U ● 2.15PM, SONY CLASSIC ★★★★

Based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson and directed by Bryan Forbes, this excellent British comedy stars John Mills and Ralph Richardson as brothers out to outlive one another. The fine cast also includes Michael Caine, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE (1993) 12 ◆ 6.45PM, SONY MOVIES ★★★

Quirky, warm-hearted drama starring Johnny D eppasthegrapeof the title, caring for his housebound mum and his developmentally disabled brother, Arnie (Leonardo Dicaprio). Juliette Lewis (above) plays Gilbert’s love interest.

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (1974) PG ● 9PM, TALKING PICTURES TV ★★★

There’s an all-star cast for this Agatha Christie adaptation, including Oliver Reed, Maria Rohm and Gert Frobe, all members of a group of ten strangers who have been invited to an abandoned hotel in the desert of Iran.

BLACK DEATH (2010) 15 ◆ 9PM, HORROR ★★★

This medieval horror stars Sean Bean as a knight investigating a village untouched by the plague – could dark forces be at work? Eddie Redmayne plays a chaste young monk. (Freeview 68, Freesat 138, Sky 317, Virgin 149)

AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1982) 15 ◆ 11PM, 5STAR ★★★★

Slushy melodrama – featuring a famous swoon-inducing scene – in which Richard Gere (right) stars as the Navy recruit, with a troubled past and attitude to match, on a path to respectability. Debra Winger is the factory girl who lifts him up where he belongs.

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KILLER SECRETS (2019) PG

● 2.15PM, CH5 ★★

A single mum moves into her late father’s house with her daughter as it’s being fixed up. But after a few incidents with wonky banisters and dodgy electrics, it would seem that the contractor she hired to fix the old place up is harbouring a deadly grudge.

THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN (1960) PG

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4.50PM, FILM4 ★★★★

Classy British crime caper, with the multitalented Bryan Forbes on both writing and acting duties. Jack Hawkins tops a fine cast as the gent who sets out to commit the perfect crime – with a little help from a misfit band of ex-army rogues.

HACKSAW RIDGE (2016) 15

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9PM, PARAMOUNT ★★★★

Director Mel Gibson delivers a powerful, fact-based war drama. Emerging from the violence of the battlefield of the Second World War is soldier Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield, above), who refuses to carry a weapon, and whose courage saves lives.

TRANSSIBERIAN (2008) 15

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9PM, SONY MOVIES ★★★

Tight, trainbound thriller, following groups of people riding the Trans-siberian express into a whole load of trouble. So far, so Hitchcockian, though we’re in much murkier territory. Kate Mara (below) and Woody Harrelson star.

STIR CRAZY (1980) 15

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11.15PM, SONY CLASSIC ★★★

The comedy double act of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor reunite for this wild and wacky comedy, their second of four collaborations. Wrongly banged up for a bank robbery, they struggle to fit into their high-security digs.

NO ESCAPE (2015) 15 ◆

1.50AM, CH4 ★★★

Owen Wilson steps into an action role – he’s a better fit for comedy – as the man whose hopes for a new life for his family are dashed. After they move to southeast Asia, a violent coup puts them all in the line of fire.

THURSDAY THE BELLS OF STMARY’S (1945) U

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3.40PM, FILM4 ★★★★

Bing Crosby is Father O’malley, reprising the role from 1944’s Going My Way. He meets his match in Ingrid Bergman’s nun, Sister Mary Benedict (above). Despite their good-natured sparring, they do good work as they strive to save a school from closure.

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1947) PG

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5.30PM, SONY CLASSIC ★★★★

It’s not Citizen Kane (see Classic Film Choice) – and his Irish accent is dreadful – but Orson Welles’s film noir is still superbly inventive and unexpected. Rita Hayworth co-stars in a film loaded with memorable set pieces.

DEADLY NIGHTSHADE (1953) PG

● 6.45PM, TALKING PICTURES TV ★★★

Emrys Jones (left) is the escaped convict who does a switcheroo with a man who is his double in the West Country. Nothing is quite what it seems in this solid British thriller as he finds his new identity brings with it a whole heap of trouble

REDS (1981) 15

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9PM, TALKING PICTURES TV ★★★★ Historical drama with added romance, starring Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant and Warren Beatty as John Reed, the American journalists who, in 1917, chronicled Russia’s Revolution. Authentic and entertaining.

MIDNIGHT RUN (1988) 18 ▲

11.05PM, FILM4 ★★★

Sharp if sweary comedy from Beverly Hills Cop man Martin Brest. Robert De Niro is the bounty hunter sent to catch accountant Charles Grodin – who has stolen money from the mob – and, for somewhat convoluted reasons, ends up on the run with him.

UP IN THE AIR (2009) 15

◆ 11.30PM, BBC2 ★★★★ George Clooney (right, with Vera Farmiga) is a corporate hatchet man in a romantic drama for discerning adults. His frequent flyer avoids a settled life, but that comes home to roost in unexpected fashion. Both leads are electric.

FRIDAY

TENET (2020) 12 ◆

8PM, SKY PREMIERE ★★★★

PREMIERE Christopher Nolan’s devilish thriller stars John David Washington as the unnamed CIA agent going up against Kenneth Branagh’s villain as the laws of time and physics are bent spectacularly out of shape. Great effects, befuddling concept.

BAD NEIGHBOURS (2014) 15 ◆

9PM, ITV2 ★★★

Out-of-control one-upmanship comedy with Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen (below) as the nice couple resorting to dirty tricks after a bunch of fraternity party animals – led by an all too charming Zac Efron – disrupt their lives.

WHITE HOUSE DOWN (2013) 12

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9PM, 5STAR ★★★

Channing Tatum stars in this sturdy action drama. He’s the cop who steps into save the President (Jamie Foxx) when his peace plans for the Middle East blow up in his face.

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989) 15

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10.50PM, BBC1 ★★★★

Writer Nora Ephron’s smart-talking tale of on-again, off-again romance. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan (below) are the pair who can’t stand each other, until they meet again by chance and realise that things have changed.

END OF WATCH (2012) 15

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11.20PM, BBC2 ★★★

Gritty police drama, shot in shaky-cam style. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena star as cops, honourable men who aren’t afraid to take risks for a just outcome, but who get dangerously close to a drug cartel.

SECRET IN THEIR EYES (2015) 15

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11.45PM, 5STAR ★★★

Remake of the Oscar-winning Argentinian drama of the same name, this downbeat thriller tells the story of a heartbreaking crime and its aftermath. Julia Roberts stars.

Films by Simone Andrews