7 TV FILMS OF THE WEEK
1 GET OUT Tonight, Channel 4, 10.55pm
GIFTED African-American photographer Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) is nervous about a road trip to meet the parents of his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams). When he arrives at her parents’ house, he is warmly welcomed by Dean Armitage (Bradley Whitford) and his psychiatrist wife, Missy (Catherine Keener). But something about the neighbourhood feels out of kilter and Chris is unnerved by the behaviour of the Armitages’ black groundskeeper Walter (Marcus Henderson) and maid Georgina (Betty Gabriel). Get Out is a razor-sharp satire that takes a scalpel to simmering racial tensions in present day America.
2 THE GREAT WALL Tomorrow, Film4, 9pm
EVERY 60 years, hordes of flesh-hungry, green-blooded monsters called the Tao Tei rise to punish avaricious mankind. A secret military sect called the Nameless Order exists solely to repel these hideous beasts. William (Matt Damon, pictured) and Tovar (Pedro Pascal) stumble into the middle of this brutal conflict. The Great Wall is a special effects-heavy monster mash and glossy B-Movie.
3 ENOUGH SAID Tuesday, Film4, 7.10pm
SOPRANOS actor James Gandolfini makes his final movie appearance in this wonderful rom-com which was released shortly before he died in 2013. Julia Louis-Dreyfus (pictured with Gandolfini) co-stars as Eva, a massage therapist embarking on a new romance with TV archivist Albert (Gandolfini).
Eva is also wooing a new client, celebrated poet Marianne, who turns about to be Albert’s ex-wife
4 SCREAM Wednesday, 5*, 10.05pm
THE premise of this horror comedy is simple enough: assorted high-school students are systematically stalked and murdered by a masked figure. What gives it a twist is that both the killer and the prey are well-versed in horror movie clichés. Meanwhile, one of the teenagers (Neve Campbell, pictured) notices a link between the deaths and her mother’s murder one year earlier.
5 RIO BRAVO Thursday, BBC4, 8pm
SMALL-TOWN Sheriff Chance (John Wayne, pictured) must keep a murderer behind bars until a marshal arrives to deal with him. It sounds simple, but the only people on Chance’s side are a drunk and an ageing deputy, while the prisoner’s brother is a rancher who will stop at nothing to break him out. Throw in a young gunslinger and a mysterious beauty, and the scene is set for high drama.
6 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Friday, E4, 9pm
IN A dystopian 2023, mutants are hunted to extinction by machines called Sentinels. Survivors, including Magneto (Sir Ian McKellen) and Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart), hatch a plan. Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) uses her abilities to send Wolverine’s (Hugh Jackman, pictured) consciousness back to his body in 1973 – the point at which the Sentinels were developed – to change history.
7 THE SHINING Saturday, BBC2, 9.15pm
ASPIRING author Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson, pictured) takes a job as a caretaker at a remote hotel which is closed for winter. But while the Overlook is supposed to be deserted, it’s actually home to evil spirits – and their plans for Jack and his family don’t include him working on his debut novel. Director Stanley Kubrick imbues the film with a powerful sense of dread.