Film choice

Charade (1963) FILM4, 2.25PM ★★★★

 Audrey Hepburn as a temperamental-but-alluring damsel in distress and Cary Grant as a shadowy charmer are characters that the actors played many times. But they do so exceptionally in this suspense comedy from Stanley Donen, often referred to as the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made. Hepburn is the widow being trailed by four men hunting for her late husband’s stolen fortune.

Black Swan (2010) FILM4, 11.25PM ★★★★★

 Darren Aronofsky’s film is delirious hokum and high-class trash. Natalie Portman stars as Nina Sayers, a young dancer with the New York City Ballet preparing for a production of Swan Lake choreographed by the charismatic Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel). He is unconvinced by Nina’s ability to portray the passion of the Black Swan and her efforts to convince him lead her towards madness.

Christine (2016) SKY CINEMA PREMIERE, 11.50PM ★★★★

 The story of Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newsreader who shot herself on air in 1974, is shocking and unfathomably sad. But it wouldn’t be worth retelling on film if it didn’t illuminate something. It asks a top-notch Rebecca Hall to play out the last days of Chubbuck’s life and dares us to hope that it’s about a different woman – one who made it out the other side of her own tragedy.