Film choice

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

SKY CINEMA PREMIERE, 8.00PM ★★★★

 This first of a potentially limitless spin-off series of “Star Wars Stories” is set before the events of the original 1977 film. It follows rebel live-wire Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), who leads a band of self-styled “spies, saboteurs and assassins” – Diego Luna and Riz Ahmed among them – on a death-orglory mission to steal the Death Star plans from an Imperial stronghold, via some breathtaking planetary vistas and earth-ripping set-pieces.

The Firm (1993) W, 9.00PM ★★★

 Sydney Pollack directed this accomplished yet curiously uninvolving adaptation of John Grisham’s legal potboiler. Tom Cruise plays Mitch Mcdeere, an ambitious young lawyer who takes a well-paid job at a Memphis law firm that sounds too good to be true. And it is: the firm launders money for the Mob. Can Mitch escape with his morals and marriage intact? Gene Hackman co-stars as Cruise’s father figure.

Strictly Ballroom (1992) BBC ONE, 11.05PM ★★★★

 Paul Mercurio plays a rebellious ballroom dancer who breaks all the rules and paso dobles his way to victory in this crowd-pleasing Australian comedy. Baz Luhrmann’s writing and directing debut is just as brash as Moulin Rouge! but a lot less pleased with itself. There’s romance between our hero and his ugly duckling partner, and it’s set against an enjoyable parade of sequin-decked caricatures and high camp.