WEDNESDAY

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES Film4, 6.35pm

Seventeen-year-old Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich) is itching to escape the backwater of Gatlin for the big city. His restlessness is soothed by the arrival of Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert), the enigmatic niece of reclusive landowner Macon Ravenwood (Jeremy Irons). Alas, Lena is reluctant to let Ethan into her life because she is a witch and on her 16th birthday, she must take part in a ritual known as the Claiming, which will dictate whether she is destined for good or evil. Based on the first book in the Caster Chronicles series, Beautiful Creatures is a smart, sassy and entertainingly camp supernatural love story riddled with teen angst, mystical curses and ridiculous plot twists.