Film choice

Doctor Dolittle (1967) FILM4, 5.05PM ★★★

 This is not the Eddie Murphy comedy version from 1998 but the charming Sixties musical directed by Richard Fleischer. Rex Harrison stars as the terse, eponymous doctor who has the uncanny ability to speak to animals and so embarks on a voyage to find an elusive pink sea snail and a giant lunar moth. Samantha Egger, 20 years Harrison’s junior, co-stars as the adventurous stowaway who falls in love with the doctor.

Storks (2016) SKY CINEMA PREMIERE, 6.20PM ★★★

 Warner Animation Group’s first film since 2014’s The Lego Movie is spectacularly daft but manages to be both moving and very fun. Here the storks of the title have moved on from delivering babies to big business and now transport products for an Amazon-style website. But then the old baby-making machine, gathering dust in the corner, is accidentally reactivated and suddenly they have a baby to get home.

American History X (1998) ITV4, 10.00PM ★★★★

 Tony Kaye directs this compellingly violent and brutal examination of white supremacism in America. Edward Norton is both mesmerising and terrifying as Derek, a student drawn into the Neo-nazi movement who mercilessly kills two black youths. After a stint in prison he’s reformed but returns home to find his younger brother Danny (Edward Furlong) on the same track he was. Fairuza Balk and Beverly D’angelo also star.