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SATURDAY CALAMITY JANE (1953) U

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1.50PM, BBC2 ★★★★

Doris Day is the Eliza Doolittle-esque cowgirl taught to play a more refined role in order to win her man (Philip Carey) – if indeed he’s the right man for her. There’s more classic Day in Move Over, Darling tomorrow – see Classic Film Choice (right).

GREASE

(1978) PG ●

4.20PM, CH4 ★★★★

High-school musical starring Olivia Newtonjohn and John Travolta as the hopelessly devoted couple who had a blissful time of summer loving, but who find themselves bowing to peer pressure when term starts.

THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD (2017) 15 9PM, CH4

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Ryan Reynolds is the protection agent now reduced to babysitting obnoxious executives. He reluctantly teams up with a convicted killer (Samuel L. Jackson, above, with Reynolds) who agrees to testify against his old boss. Cue a hail of bullets and scattergun wisecracks.

LUCY 10.40PM, ITV

(2014) 15 ◆ ★★★ Luc Besson’s sci-fi thriller is a sure-footed high-concept adventure that fizzes with energy. Scarlett Johansson (below) is a woman who, after accidentally ingesting vast quantities of an experimental drug, develops incredible, superhuman powers.

ASSASSIN’S CREED (2016) 12 11.25PM, CH4

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★★★

Action movie based on a popular video game franchise. Michael Fassbender stars as Cal, a criminal who is saved from lethal injection because he is descended from a Spanish warrior. After some scientific hocus pocus, Cal is sent on a very important mission.

AMUNDSEN (2019) 12 12.35AM, BBC2

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★★★

Biographical drama about the explorer Roald Amundsen, who quit his medical studies for life at sea. The leader of the first expedition to arrive at the South Pole, he dreamed of reaching the North Pole, too.

SUNDAY

JOE KIDD

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12.55PM, CH5 ★★★

This western stars Clint Eastwood (above) as a gunslinger trying to stay out of trouble. That wouldn’t make a good movie, so he gets mixed up in a turf war between Mexican revolutionaries and a ruthless landowner.

(1972) 15

MOVE OVER, DARLING (1963) U

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2.40PM, BBC2 ★★★★

See Classic Film Choice (right).

WYATT EARP (1994) 12

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2.45PM, CH5 ★★★★

Lawrence Kasdan’s handsome western has a great cast, with Kevin Costner in the lead as law-bringer Earp, plus Dennis Quaid as Doc Holliday and Gene Hackman as Earp senior.

EVAN ALMIGHTY

(2007) PG ●

4.05PM, ITV ★★★ Morgan Freeman returns to play ‘Him upstairs’ in this sequel. Steve Carell (left) is the man who, this time, has to put all his faith into building an ark – just like Noah – while all around him proclaim him a loon. Suffice to say, it’s a job that tests his sanity, and his faith.

THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR (2016) 12 ◆ 6.50PM, E4 ★★★

Follow-up to the 2012 dark fantasy inspired by Snow White, this takes inspiration from The Snow Queen (see also Disney’s Frozen). Emily Blunt plays the Queen with a cold heart.

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) 15

◆ 11.10PM, BBC2 ★★★★★

In director Alan J. Pakula’s tense and gripping fact-based conspiracy thriller, with a screenplay by William Goldman, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford star as the reporters uncovering the Watergate affair that was so disastrous to Nixon’s Presidency.

PATTI CAKE$ (2017) 15

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1.55AM, CH4 ★★★ Danielle Macdonald, who won our hearts as probationary constable Helen Chambers in

The Tourist (iplayer), is fantastic in this comedy drama. She plays an aspiring rapper (right) from the poorest part of town.

MONDAY POKEMON: ARCEUS AND THE JEWEL OF LIFE

(2009) U ■ 9AM, CBBC ★★★ Animated adventure – the 12th in a series of films – featuring Japan’s cutest, most addictive critters. Arceus is a powerful Pokemon who isn’t happy with humanity – and needs talking down by a team of good Pokemon and their human trainers.

TOM BROWN’S SCHOOLDAYS

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12.10PM, TALKING PICTURES TV ★★★

In this adaptation of the famous novel by Thomas Hughes, shot on location at Rugby School, John Howard Davies is the boarder who, with his friends, is tormented by sneering school bully Flashman (John Forrest).

(1951) U THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

(2015) PG ● 6.35PM, FILM4 ★★★ The formula of the original is re-created for this charming sequel. Richard Gere (above, with Lillete Dubey) is the new boy joining Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy,

Celia Imrie and other British stars in Jaipur as they try to make the most of later life.

FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX (2004) 12

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9PM, 5ACTION ★★★

Remake of the 1965 film, with Dennis Quaid (below) as the pilot of a plane that crashes in the desert. With the sands of time fast running out, he rallies survivors to rebuild their stricken craft. Hugh Laurie co-stars.

THE BOX (2009) 12

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10.55PM, GREAT! MOVIES ★★★

This dark and twisted 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 in return for a deadly bargain.

SWEET COUNTRY

(2017) 15

11.50PM, FILM4 ★★★★

This Australian western explores tensions between white settlers and the indigenous population in the Northern Territory of the 1920s. The land is brutal, hot and stark, and men behave brutally. Veteran actors Sam Neill and Bryan Brown star.

TUESDAY

NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE (1940) PG ● 1.25PM, 5ACTION ★★★

Cecil B. Demille’s first film in colour is a western starring Gary Cooper as Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers. Paulette Goddard is the daughter of the outlaw Dusty is pursuing, with Madeleine Carroll (above, right, with Goddard and Cooper) as his sweet-natured love interest.

ROBIN AND MARIAN (1976) PG

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4.40PM, GREAT! MOVIES ★★★★

Older and beardier, Robin Hood returns to England after 20 years abroad, and seeks out his old love, Marian. Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn star in Richard Lester’s hugely entertaining and expertly crafted adventure.

THE PINK PANTHER (1963) PG ● 4.40PM, FILM4 ★★★★ Director Blake Edwards had a string of comic hits in the 1960s and 1970s, and this rib-tickler is one of his best. David Niven stars as the uppercrust jewel thief plotting an audacious crime – but it’s Peter Sellers as clumsy Inspector Clouseau (above) that everyone remembers.

COMING TO AMERICA (1988) 15

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9PM, FILM4 ★★★

In this John Landis comedy, Eddie Murphy stars as an African prince who rejects an arranged marriage, wanting to find a forward-thinking American wife instead. In New York with his trusty aide (Arsenio Hall), the prince gets an almighty culture shock.

TRUE LIES (1994) 15

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10PM, CH5 ★★★★

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the secret agent whose bored wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) goes off in search of romance and adventure, and thinks she’s found it with Bill Paxton’s oily con man. In this action-packed spoof, their worlds are set to collide in spectacular style.

99 HOMES (2014) 15

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11.15PM, BBC2 ★★★ Thriller starring Andrew Garfield as a desperate single father whose moral compass is sorely tested when he starts working for

Michael Shannon’s stinking rich – and corrupt to the core – property developer (right).