THIS WEEK’S MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS
10:30 am Everest ››› (’ 15, Adventure) Jason Clarke. Climbers from two expeditions fight for survival during a fierce blizzard on Mount Everest. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 10:30 am Doctor Monica ›› (’ 34, Drama) Kay Francis. An obstetrician delivers a baby her husband fathers with another woman. (cc) TCM
11:30 am All This and Heaven Too ››› (’ 40, Drama) Bette Davis. In a 19th-century scandal, a French duke and his children’s governess become suspects in the death of his wife. (cc) TCM
NOON Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride ››› (’ 05, Children’s) Voices of Johnny Depp. Animated. In 19th-century Europe, a gifted pianist mistakenly weds a dead woman who takes him to the underworld. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE NOON Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters ›› (’ 13, Fantasy) Jeremy Renner. Brother and sister, Hansel and Gretel, are the ultimate witchhunting vigilantes. Now, unknown to them, they have become the hunted and must face a greater evil than witches: their past. (cc)
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12:01 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wes Craven’s New Nightmare ›› (’ 94, Horror) Robert Englund. Boogeyman Freddy Krueger brings real-life terror to the set of the seventh Elm Street movie. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY 12:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Karate Kid ›› (’ 10, Children’s) Jaden Smith. A Chinese maintenance man instructs an American boy in the art of kung fu to help the youth face down bullies at his new school. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MTV 12:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself ›› (’ 09, Comedy-Drama) Tyler Perry. When Madea catches three siblings looting her home, she delivers the youths to their boozy aunt, who is sorely in need of an attitude adjustment. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VH1
1:00 pm Superfly ›› (’ 18, Suspense) Trevor Jackson. Cocaine kingpin Youngblood Priest realizes that it’s time to get out of the game after surviving a violent attack. Hoping for one last score, Priest must now outmaneuver the cartel and two corrupt police officers to find his path to freedom. (cc) . . . . . . . . . FX 2:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Sorcerer’s Apprentice ›› (’ 10, Fantasy) Nicolas Cage. A wizard trains a reluctant protege in the art of magic to help him protect Manhattan from a powerful adversary. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . FREE 2:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . White House Down ››
(’13, Action) Channing Tatum. While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a police officer springs into action to save his child and the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders. (cc) . AMC 2:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Unfaithful
›› (’ 47, Mystery) Ann Sheridan. A woman stands trial for killing the man who had been her lover while her husband was away. TCM 2:29 pm The Strangers: Prey at Night ››
(’18, Horror) Christina Hendricks. A road trip to visit relatives takes a dangerous turn when a family arrives at a secluded mobile home park that’s mysteriously deserted — until three masked psychopaths show up to satisfy their thirst for blood. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY
3:00 pm . . . . . . . For Colored Girls ›› (’ 10, Drama) Kimberly Elise. A group of women comes together in search of commonality and understanding in the wake of personal crises, heartbreak and crimes. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . BET
3:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . The Legend of Tarzan
›› (’ 16, Adventure) Alexander Skarsgard. Lured from Victorian England to the wilds of the Congo, Tarzan must return to the jungle to save his captive wife from King Leopold’s devious envoy. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TNT
3:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Predator ›› (’ 18, Science Fiction) Boyd
Holbrook. The universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with new DNA. Now, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and an evolutionary biologist can save the human race from extinction. (cc) FX
4:00 pm The Longest Yard ›› (’ 05, Comedy) Adam Sandler. At a Texas penitentiary, jailed NFL veterans train their fellow inmates for a football game against the guards. (cc) MTV 4:00 pm. . . . . . . The Postman Always Rings Twice ››› (’ 46, Crime Drama) Lana Turner. A drifter stops at a Greek diner and helps the owner’s lusty wife become a widow. (cc) TCM 4:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . Miracle on 34th Street ››› (’ 94, Children’s) Richard Attenborough. A retail-war lawyer goes to court to prove a department-store Santa Claus is for real. (cc) FREE
5:00 pm. . . Deep Impact ›› (’ 98, Drama) Robert Duvall. Troubled people attempt to mend their lives as they brace themselves for a comet that threatens Earth. (cc) . . . AMC
5:30 pm Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle ››› (’17, Adventure) Dwayne Johnson. Four teens embark on the adventure of a lifetime when a video game magically transports them to the jungle and transforms them into adults. (cc) FX
5:30 pm The Meg ›› (’ 18, Science Fiction) Jason Statham. A massive creature attacks a deep-sea submersible, leaving it disabled and trapping the crew at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. With time running out, a rescue diver must now confront an unimaginable threat — a 75-foot-long prehistoric shark. (cc) . TNT 6:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The
Best Man Holiday ›› (’ 13, Comedy-Drama) Morris Chestnut. Long-forgotten rivalries and romances reignite when college friends have a Christmas reunion nearly 15 years after the last time they saw one another. (cc) . . BET 6:00 pm Nora Prentiss ›› (’ 47, Crime Drama) Ann Sheridan. A nightclub singer inspires a doctor to fake his own murder, for which he stands trial. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM
6:25 pm Hunter Killer ›› (’ 18, Action) Gerard Butler. American submarine Capt. Joe Glass learns that a secret Russian coup is in the offing. With crew and country on the line, Glass must assemble an elite group of Navy SEALs to sneak through enemy waters and rescue the kidnapped Russian president. . . . SYFY
6:30 pm Get Hard ›› (’ 15, Comedy) Will Ferrell. The prison-bound manager of a hedge fund asks a black businessman — who has never been to jail — to prepare him for life behind bars. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MTV
7:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quantum of Solace ›› (’ 08, Action) Daniel Craig. Premiere. James Bond’s hunt for those responsible for Vesper Lynd’s death leads him to a ruthless businessman who is plotting to seize control of a valuable resource. (cc) PARMT 7:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Princess and the Frog ››› (’ 09, Children’s) Voices of Anika Noni Rose. Animated. A fateful kiss leads a young woman and a royal amphibian on an adventure through the bayous of Louisiana. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE
7:30 pm The Day After Tomorrow ›› (’ 04, Action) Dennis Quaid. A climatologist tries to locate his son after global warming leads to worldwide natural disasters. (cc) . . . . AMC 8:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deadpool 2 ›››
(’18, Action) Ryan Reynolds. Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool must protect a teenage mutant from Cable — a genetically enhanced soldier from the future. He soon joins forces with Bedlam, Shatterstar, Domino and other mutants to battle Cable and his powerful advanced weaponry. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 8:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Rampage ›› (’ 18, Action) Dwayne Johnson.
A silverback gorilla, a wolf and a reptile grow to a monstrous size after a rogue genetic experiment goes wrong. Primatologist Davis Okoye soon joins forces with the military to prevent the mutated beasts from destroying everything in their path. (cc) . . . . . . . . . TNT 8:00 pm What’s Love Got to Do With It ››› (’93, Biography) Angela Bassett. Anna Mae Bullock meets singer/songwriter Ike Turner and goes into show business under the stage name Tina. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VH1 8:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lolita ››› (’ 62, Comedy-Drama) James Mason. Professor Humbert Humbert marries a widow to be near her nymphet daughter. (cc) TCM 9:00 pm Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family ›› (’ 11, Comedy-Drama) Tyler Perry. Madea gathers the clan together to help her niece cope with some distressing news about her health. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BET 9:00 pm. . . . . Journey to the Center of the Earth ›› (’ 08, Children’s) Brendan Fraser. A science professor and his nephew encounter strange creatures and stranger lands as they travel beneath the Earth’s surface. (cc) SYFY 9:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shrek ››› (’ 01, Children’s) Voices of Mike Myers. Animated. In order to save his home, a monster with a donkey makes a deal with a mean lord to rescue a beautiful princess. (cc) FREE
9:30 pm . . . . . . . . Mr. & Mrs. Smith ›› (’ 05, Action) Brad Pitt. Premiere. A husband and wife are unaware that each is an international assassin who has just been assigned to kill the other. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PARMT 10:00 pm The Meg ›› (’ 18, Science Fiction) Jason Statham. A massive creature attacks a deep-sea submersible, leaving it disabled and trapping the crew at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. With time running out, a rescue diver must now confront an unimaginable threat — a 75-foot-long prehistoric shark. (cc) . TNT 10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wedding Crashers ››› (’ 05, Comedy) Owen Wilson. Two divorce mediators spend a wild weekend partying with a politician and his eccentric family. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TRU
TUESDAY
6:00 am. . . . . The Most Wonderful Time of the Year ››› (’ 08, Drama) Henry Winkler. A snowbound stranger brightens the holidays for a retired police officer and his niece. (cc) HALL
6:00 am Four Daughters ››› (’ 38, Romance) Claude Rains. A music professor presides over his four daughters and their suitors, one of whom has a tragic bent. (cc) . . . . . . . . . TCM 7:00 am Everest ››› (’ 15, Adventure) Jason
Clarke. Climbers from two expeditions fight for survival during a fierce blizzard on Mount Everest. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX
7:45 am. . . . . . Lady With Red Hair ›› (’ 40, Biography) Miriam Hopkins. Divorced stage actress Mrs. Leslie Carter works with New York theater impresario David Belasco. (cc) TCM 8:00 am A Christmas Proposal ››› (’ 08, Romance-Comedy) Nicole Eggert. Two opposing lawyers — one-time sweethearts — battle over the development of a ski resort. (cc) LIFE 9:00 am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Body of Lies ›› (’ 08, Drama) Leonardo DiCaprio. Joined in Progress. A CIA operative hatches a dangerous plan to catch the leader of a terrorist organization, but conflicts with his two closest allies may cost him his life. (cc) AMC
9:15 am. . . . . . . . . . . . . The Unsuspected ››
(’47, Crime Drama) Claude Rains. The narrator of a murder-mystery radio show is a killer, but his niece would never know it. (cc) . . . TCM 10:30 am . . . . How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
›› (’ 03, Romance-Comedy) Kate Hudson. A columnist tries to make a man dump her, but he bets his boss that she will fall in love. (cc) MTV
11:00 am Superfly ›› (’ 18, Suspense) Trevor Jackson. Cocaine kingpin Youngblood Priest realizes that it’s time to get out of the game after surviving a violent attack. Hoping for one last score, Priest must now outmaneuver the cartel and two corrupt police officers to find his path to freedom. (cc) . . . . . . . . . FX 11:00 am . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Skeffington ›››
(’44, Drama) Bette Davis. Two world wars pass before a socialite appreciates the Wall Street tycoon she married but never loved. (cc) TCM 11:30 am E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ›››› (’ 82, Children’s) Henry Thomas. A boy’s close encounter with an alien stranded on Earth leads to a unique friendship in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE 11:30 am. . . Deep Impact ›› (’ 98, Drama) Robert Duvall. Troubled people attempt to mend their lives as they brace themselves for a comet that threatens Earth. (cc) . . . AMC 12:30 pm What’s Love Got to Do With It ››› (’93, Biography) Angela Bassett. Anna Mae Bullock meets singer/songwriter Ike Turner and goes into show business under the stage name Tina. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VH1
1:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Predator ›› (’ 18, Science Fiction) Boyd Holbrook. The universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with new DNA. Now, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and an evolutionary biologist can save the human race from extinction. (cc) FX
1:30 pm Now, Voyager ››› (’ 42, Drama) Bette Davis. A Boston spinster finds a lover after the counsel of a kind psychiatrist brings her out of her frumpy shell. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM 2:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2012
›› (’ 09, Action) John Cusack. Earth’s billions of inhabitants are unaware that the planet has an expiration date. With the warnings of an American scientist, world leaders begin secret preparations for the survival of select members of society. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC
2:05 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Hunchback of Notre Dame ››› (’ 96, Children’s) Voices of Tom Hulce. Animated. Disney’s musical version of the Victor Hugo classic centers on a disfigured man who rings the bells of Notre Dame Cathedral in 15th-century Paris. (cc) FREE
3:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The
Best Man Holiday ›› (’ 13, Comedy-Drama) Morris Chestnut. Long-forgotten rivalries and romances reignite when college friends have a Christmas reunion nearly 15 years after the last time they saw one another. (cc) . . BET 3:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No Strings Attached
›› (’ 11, Romance-Comedy) Natalie Portman. After sex enters the equation, two lifelong friends make a pact to keep their relationship purely physical. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MTV 3:00 pm . . . . . . . . . Godzilla ›› (’ 14, Science Fiction) Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises to combat massive, malevolent foes that have been feeding on a nuclear plant’s reactors and now threaten mankind with total annihilation. (cc) . TNT
3:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dumb and Dumber To ›› (’ 14, Comedy) Jim Carrey. Witless wonders Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne go on a road trip to find the daughter that Harry never knew he had. (cc) FX
3:45 pm . Casablanca ›››› (’ 42, Drama) Humphrey Bogart. A cynical nightclub owner protects an old flame and her husband from Nazis in Morocco. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM
4:10 pm . . . . . . . . . . . Chicken Little ›› (’ 05, Children’s) Voices of Zach Braff. Animated. A young fowl and his friends flock together to save skeptical townsfolk from an alien attack. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE
4:15 pm. . Burlesque ›› (’ 10, Drama) Cher.
With help from a savvy stage manager and a gender-bending host, a cocktail waitress with a stunning voice becomes a performer in a club’s musical revue. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E!
5:30 pm How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ›› (’ 03, Romance-Comedy) Kate Hudson. A columnist tries to make a man dump her, but he bets his boss that she will fall in love. (cc) . . . . MTV
5:30 pm The Day After Tomorrow ›› (’ 04, Action) Dennis Quaid. A climatologist tries to locate his son after global warming leads to worldwide natural disasters. (cc) . . . . AMC
5:45 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rampage ›› (’ 18, Action) Dwayne Johnson. A silverback gorilla, a wolf and a reptile grow to a monstrous size after a rogue genetic experiment goes wrong. Primatologist Davis Okoye soon joins forces with the military to prevent the mutated beasts from destroying everything in their path. (cc) . . . . . . . . . TNT
5:45 pm . . . . . Caesar and Cleopatra ›››
(’46, Historical Drama) Vivien Leigh. The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play. (cc) . . . . . . . . . TCM 6:00 pm Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family ›› (’ 11, Comedy-Drama) Tyler Perry. Madea gathers the clan together to help her niece cope with some distressing news about her health. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BET 6:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daddy’s Home ››
(’15, Comedy) Will Ferrell. An insecure man competes for the affection of his stepchildren when their freewheeling father breezes back into town. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX
6:15 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shrek ››› (’ 01, Children’s) Voices of Mike Myers. Animated. In order to save his home, a monster with a donkey makes a deal with a mean lord to rescue a beautiful princess. (cc) FREE
6:30 pm . . . . . Journey to the Center of the Earth ›› (’ 08, Children’s) Brendan Fraser. A science professor and his nephew encounter strange creatures and stranger lands as they travel beneath the Earth’s surface. (cc) SYFY 7:00 pm . . . . . . . Rambo: First Blood ›››
(’82, Action) Sylvester Stallone. Green Beret veteran Rambo takes on a Pacific Northwest sheriff and the National Guard. (cc) PARMT 8:00 pm. . . The Hangover Part III ›› (’ 13, Comedy) Bradley Cooper. Phil, Stu and Doug take Alan on a road trip to help him through a personal crisis. Meanwhile, Mr. Chow breaks out of prison and prepares to wreak havoc. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX