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SATURDAY 633 SQUADRON

(1964) PG ●

2PM, BBC2 HHH

Based on real-life RAF operations, this story of a fictional raid on a fuel plant in Norway has an impressive roster of aircraft, including eight De Havilland Mosquitos that had survived the war. Cliff Robertson stars.

BREAKING NEWS IN YUBA COUNTY

(2021) 15 ◆ 8PM, SKY PREMIERE HHH

PREMIERE Allison Janney plays a neglected housewife (below), who becomes the centre of attention – at last – when her husband ‘disappears’. A farcical comedy with an impressive female cast including Mila Kunis, Ellen Barkin, Awkwafina and Regina Hall.

VENOM (2018) 15

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PREMIERE See The Big Movie (right).

9PM, CH4 HHH EAR FOR EYE (2021) 15

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10.15PM, BBC2 HHH

PREMIERE Mixing music, stunning visuals and the spoken word as poetic, political force, Debbie Tucker Green adapts her acclaimed 2018 stage play for the big screen. Lashana Lynch, currently appearing in the new James Bond film No Time To Die, stars.

BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY

(2001) 15 ◆ 10.35PM, ITV HHHH

The perfect not-going-out movie, starring Renee Zellweger as the singleton heroine (below) who adds messy awkwardness to the romantic comedy formula. Hugh Grant and Colin Firth are the two men in her life.

TOTAL RECALL (2012) 12 ◆

11.10PM, CH4 HHH

Another take on Philip K. Dick’s short story We Can Remember For You Wholesale, first filmed in neon fashion in 1990. Colin Farrell is the ordinary Joe who is really anything but.

AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE

(2018) 15 ◆

1.10AM, BBC2 HHH

French drama charting a mother and daughter’s complex relationship. Virginie Efira is the office worker who raises her daughter alone, while the wealthy father keeps away.

SUNDAY SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS (2016) PG 3.10PM, BBC1

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A Lake District holiday is filled with adventure for the Walker children as they take up arms against the Amazons, aka the Blackett children, including Peggy and Nancy (Hannah Jayne Thorp and Seren Hawkes, above).

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON

(2011) 12 ◆ 3.40PM, CH4 HHH

Model Rosie Huntington-whiteley makes her feature debut in this third film in the science fiction franchise. The effects-driven plot involves a race to the moon to retrieve the secrets of a Cybertron spaceship.

MONKEY BUSINESS (1952) U

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7PM, TALKING PICTURES TV HHHH See Classic Film Choice (right).

THE DEATH OF STALIN (2017) 15 10.45PM, BBC2

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With a superb cast, this satire imagines the chaotic, comical aftermath of the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953. Jason Isaacs is General Georgy Zhukov, with Rupert Friend as Stalin’s son, Vasily (above).

YOUNG AHMED

(2019) 15 ◆

11.30PM, BBC4 HHH

PREMIERE A devastating yet sentimental drama from the Belgian Dardenne brothers, this follows the boy of the title, a Muslim teen (Idir Ben Addi) who is radicalised and plots to kill his teacher (Myriem Akheddiou).

THE HATE U GIVE (2018) 12 11.35PM, CH4

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Moving drama starring Amandla Stenberg as Starr, a teenager who hangs out with white kids at school, while her home is in a predominantly black neighbourhood. Her two worlds collide after a shocking act of violence.

AT ANY PRICE

(2012) 18 ▲ 12.30AM, BBC1 HHH Dennis Quaid (right) and Zac Efron star as the father and son in America’s farm belt, buckling under the weight of financial pressure and familial expectation. Well-acted, but not without weaknesses in plot and character.

MONDAY THE GOURMET DETECTIVE: ROUX THE DAY

(2020) PG ● 2.15PM, CH5 HHH The chef with a nose for solving mysteries (Dylan Neal) investigates when a long-lost and rather valuable recipe book appears to unleash a deadly curse on those who own it. Or is someone cooking up trouble?

IN THE LINE OF FIRE 9PM, ITV4

(1993) 15 ◆ HHHH

In this tense, well-executed thriller,

Clint Eastwood (below) stars as an ageing Secret Service agent who locks horns with John Malkovich’s wannabe Presidential assassin. The way in which Eastwood plays to his age and vulnerabilities sets it apart.

HACKSAW RIDGE (2016) 15

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9PM, PARAMOUNT HHH

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) who, despite refusing to carry a weapon, proves himself a hero.

PLENTY (1985) 15

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11.10PM, TALKING PICTURES TV HHH

An ice-cold adaptation of David Hare’s 1978 play. Meryl Streep stars as the woman whose experiences with the French Resistance complicate her life once the war has ended. Tracey Ullman and Sting (below) also star.

THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976) 18 11.40PM, ITV4 HHHH

Clint Eastwood directs himself in his visually splendid and celebrated revenge western. It deals with the lawlessness during and after the American Civil War – which turned Eastwood’s peaceful farmer Wales, and others like him, into fighting men.

THE GUILTY (2018) 15

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1.55AM, CH4 HHHH

A superb Danish thriller, presented in a simple package, but devilishly complex and full of surprises. Jakob Cedergren is the cop who takes an emergency call from a woman claiming to have been kidnapped.

TUESDAY WILL PENNY (1967) 12

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1.50PM, PARAMOUNT HHH

Western starring Charlton Heston as cowhand Will Penny (above), who signs up to spend a year alone in the mountains, but ends up sharing his cabin with a woman (Joan Hackett) and her son. Also stars Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors and Bruce Dern.

STALKED BY THE KILLER EX (2020) PG

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Looking forward to a fresh start after accepting a marriage proposal, Kristen (Alex Mckenna) finds that her fiance’s ex isn’t keen on surrendering custody of her ten-year-old daughter to another woman.

CORDELIA (2019) 15 6.20PM, SKY PREMIERE HHH

PREMIERE Talented Antonia CampbellHughes (left) plays twin sisters in this psychological drama. Cordelia is the twin who embarks on an affair with her sister’s mysterious neighbour (Johnny Flynn) – but Cordelia is living with a trauma that is all too painfully present.

PAUL BLART: MALL COP (2009) PG

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● 7.05PM, GREAT! MOVIES HHH

Goofy comedy, a suitable vehicle for its star Kevin James, who plays Blart, a bungling shopping mall security guard getting a chance to play the hero. During a heist with hostages, Blart is the man on the inside.

WAKE WOOD 10.50PM, HORROR

(2010) 18 ▲

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Hammer springs back to life with this creepy supernatural horror. Moving to a new town after the death of their daughter, bereaved parents Eva Birthistle and Aidan Gillen come across old magic that helps them to suspend their grief – for a while... (Freeview 68, Freesat 138, Sky 317, Virgin 149)

THE HUNGER GAMES (2012) 12

◆ 11.05PM, 5STAR HHHH Aimed at the young adults who devoured the series of novels by Suzanne Collins, this is an exhilarating fantasy adventure. Jennifer Lawrence became a huge box office draw as action heroine Katniss Everdeen (right), who, under a hateful regime, faces a brutal fight to the death.