TV FILMS of the week
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GLASS
Tonight, Channel 4, 10pm
Dr Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson) is a psychiatrist who specialises in a specific delusion of grandeur: individuals who believe they are superheroes. She oversees the treatment of zoo employee Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy) aka The Beast, security guard David Dunn (Bruce Willis) aka The Overseer, who can unmask sins through touch, and Elijah Price (Samuel L Jackson) aka Mr Glass, whose brilliant mind is condemned to a fragile body. Glass is a mind-bending thriller which orchestrates a collision of characters from writer-director M Night Shyamalan’s earlier films Unbreakable and Split.
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WAR OF THE WORLDS Tomorrow, Film4, 9pm
Steven Spielberg’s take on HG Wells’ sci-fi classic. Divorced dockworker Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise, left) is a terrible father to teenage son Robbie (Justin Chatwin) and daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning). He must step up when a towering threelegged machine rises out of the earth and begins incinerating every living being in sight.
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EDUCATING RITA Tuesday, BBC2, 11.15pm
Bored Liverpool hairdresser Rita (Julie Walters) enrols in an Open University English course. Her tutor Frank (Michael Caine, pictured with Walters) is a hard-drinking poet who is initially sceptical, but comes to see his new pupil’s frank opinions and natural intelligence as a breath of fresh air. A smart, funny and touching comedy drama
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JAWS
Wednesday, ITV4, 9pm
Now nearly 47 years old, Steven Spielberg’s first blockbuster has lost none of its bite. Brody (Roy Scheider, left) is a police chief on New England’s Amity Island whose life is turned upside down when a great white shark starts eating the locals. An expert (Richard Dreyfuss) and a salty hunter (Robert Shaw), join Brody to try and kill the beast.
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GREEN BOOK Thursday, BBC4, 9pm
Oscar-winning drama follows bouncer Frank
“Tony Lip” Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) who accepts an offer from refined pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) to chauffeur him on a tour taking in Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee. The pair initially clash but later learn valuable life lessons from each other.
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COUNTY LINES Friday, BBC3, 10pm
Single mum Toni (Ashley Madekwe) works nights and leaves 14-year-old son Tyler (Conrad Khan, left) to care for his younger sister. Tyler is bullied and feels alienated until a stranger, Simon (Harris Dickinson), steps in to save him from a beating. The teen gravitates towards Simon and the older man grooms Tyler to become a drug mule.
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ALIEN: COVENANT Saturday, Channel 4, 10pm
Set 10 years after the 2012 prequel Prometheus, Alien: Covenant joins the dots to the original trilogy. The crew of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation vessel Covenant, stumble upon a distress signal from a planet that sensors reveal would make an idyllic new home. They investigate, but are not alone on this new world...