Film choice

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) SKY CINEMA PREMIERE, 8.00PM

JK Rowling’s spectacular feat of world-building – a film about a magical zookeeper, played by Eddie Redmayne, whose mythical menagerie is on the loose – turned out to be the most relevant blockbuster of last year: despite being set in the Twenties, its vision of an America caught in the jaws of fear has the stony-grim ring of the here and now. Johnny Depp and Katherine Waterson also star

Zoolander (2001) COMEDY CENTRAL, 10.00PM

This enjoyable satire on the fashion industry stars Ben Stiller as Derek Zoolander, a three-time Super Model of the Year knocked off his plinth by the rising blond bombshell Hansel (Owen Wilson). The premise is silly (think The

Manchurian Candidate crossed with the Marx Brothers’s Duck Soup), but there are some brilliant moments including a catwalk contest umpired by David Bowie.

The English Patient (1996) ITV3, 11.30PM

Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of the Michael Ondaatje novel is an emotionally luxuriant masterpiece, which won nine Oscars. In a ruined Italian monastery at the end of the Second World War, a mysterious, badly burned figure (Ralph Fiennes) is tended by young nurse Hana (Juliette Binoche). With an aching intensity, the past, featuring Kristin Scott Thomas’s Katharine, is gradually revealed.