Film choice

Monster Trucks (2016) FILM4, 5.00PM ★★

Monster trucks are big, loud and colourful – not sophisticated or subtle. So it is with Chris Wedge’s film, which roars about blandly. Tripp (Lucas Till) is a sad teenager who works at a scrapyard to escape his family. When a fracking operation nearby releases three strange monsters, one becomes Tripp’s friend and assumes control of his truck. (Get it?) Time to watch out, generic evil corporation…

The Day of the Jackal (1973) TCM MOVIES, 6.00PM ★★★★★

Adapted from Frederick Forsyth’s novel by director Fred Zinnemann, this taut and slow-burning thriller is about a plot by an extremist faction to kill Charles de Gaulle. Edward Fox plays the eponymous assassin hired to whack the president, while Michael Lonsdale is the French detective trying to stop him. (The film was poorly remade in 1997 as The Jackal, starring Bruce Willis.)

Zombieland (2008) COMEDY CENTRAL, 9.00PM ★★★

After a virus turns most of the population of America into zombies, nerdy student Jesse Eisenberg heads for Ohio to see whether or not his family has survived. En route he’s forced to bond with bad-ass zombie killer Woody Harrelson and a couple of sisters (Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin). This cross between video game and theme-park ride may be no Shaun of the Dead, but it’s a lot of fun.