Film choice
ITV, 12.10PM ★★★
After the entire British royal family (the house of Wyndham here) are killed in an accident at a photo shoot, the hunt is on to find their nearest heir. That turns out to be an American slob called Ralph (John Goodman) in this game, if predictable, fish-out-of-water comedy. Peter O’Toole and John Hurt ham it up, though the Britain represented is farcically stereotyped.
ITV, 6.20PM ★★★
Andrew Garfield returns as Peter Parker, who has a lot on his plate here, with Jamie Foxx’s Electro and Dane DeHaan’s Green Goblin to contend with, among others. The story is overplotted, and the CGI set-pieces are none too elegantly interwoven. Still, Garfield’s sparkling chemistry with Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy keeps you happily engaged.
FILM4, 11.05PM ★★★
In this drama, director Spike Jonze poses a teasing question: Could you fall in love with a computer? This is answered by Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), a lonely man who bonds with “Samantha” (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), a new, intuitive operating system which appears to understand him better than any woman. Amy Adams and Rooney Mara also star.