THIS WEEK’S MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS
5:45 pm . . . . . . . . . . I’ll Cry Tomorrow ›››
(’55, Biography) Susan Hayward. 1930s singer/ actress Lillian Roth hits bottom after bad marriages, then joins Alcoholics Anonymous. (cc) TCM
6:00 pm Lottery Ticket ›› (’ 10, Comedy) Bow Wow. After winning $370 million, a young man must survive a holiday weekend with greedy neighbors before he can claim the prize. (cc) BET
7:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . Transformers: Age of Extinction ›› (’ 14, Action) Mark Wahlberg. As humanity picks up the pieces after an epic battle, a shadowy group emerges to gain control of history. Meanwhile, a powerful new menace sets its sights on Earth. (cc) . . . FX
7:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shooter ››
(’07, Suspense) Mark Wahlberg. Reluctantly pressed into service again, a former military sniper plots revenge against his powerful foes after being betrayed and wounded. (cc) PARMT 7:00 pm Tangled ››› (’ 10, Children’s) Voices of Mandy Moore. Animated. Crowned with 70 feet of magical golden hair, Rapunzel strikes a deal with a charming thief to spring her from her prison tower. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE 8:00 pm Central Intelligence ›› (’ 16, Action) Dwayne Johnson. A lethal CIA agent and his former classmate encounter shootouts, espionage and double-crosses while trying to save the U.S. spy satellite system. (cc) TNT 8:00 pm All About the Benjamins ›› (’ 02, Action) Ice Cube. A bounty hunter and a con artist work together to retrieve a lottery ticket from a group of diamond thieves. (cc) VH1 8:00 pm Puss in Boots ››› (’ 11, Children’s) Voices of Antonio Banderas. Animated. The notorious cat has the adventure of nine lifetimes when he joins forces with Humpty Dumpty and Kitty Softpaws to steal the goose that lays the golden eggs. (cc) . . . . . . . NICK 8:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pretty Woman ››› (’ 90, Romance-Comedy) Richard Gere. A corporate raider pays a gorgeous hooker to be his escort for a business week in Beverly Hills. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC 8:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . The Gilded Lily ›››
(’35, Romance-Comedy) Claudette Colbert. A stenographer’s rebuff of a British duke’s son is news to the New York reporter who loves her. TCM
8:30 pm . . . . San Andreas ›› (’ 15, Action) Dwayne Johnson. When the San Andreas fault triggers a magnitude 9 earthquake, a searchand-rescue helicopter pilot must navigate the destruction from Los Angeles to San Francisco to bring his estranged wife and daughter to safety. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY 9:00 pm Get Rich or Die Tryin’ ›› (’ 05, Crime Drama) Curtis ‘50 Cent‘ Jackson. A drug dealer wants to leave his violent life behind and pursue his dream of becoming a rap artist. (cc) BET
9:00 pm Mulan ››› (’ 98, Children’s) Voices of Ming-Na Wen. Animated. A Chinese maiden disguises herself as a man to take her father’s place in battle against invading Huns. (cc)
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9:30 pm . . . . . . Come Next Spring ›› (’ 55, Drama) Ann Sheridan. A long-gone wayward man returns sober to his wary wife and family in late-1920s rural Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . TCM 10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Guns ››
(’13, Action) Denzel Washington. Premiere. In the dark about each other’s true identity, two undercover agents from competing bureaus go on the run together after an attempt to infiltrate a drug cartel goes haywire. (cc) PARMT 10:00 pm Old School ›› (’ 03, Comedy) Luke Wilson. Three friends try to recapture the fun of their college years by starting their own off-campus fraternity. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . TNT 10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dope ››› (’ 15, Comedy) Shameik Moore. A high-school senior and his friends have a wild adventure in Los Angeles as they try to stay one step ahead of armed thugs who want the Ecstasy that a drug dealer secretly stashed in the youth’s backpack. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . VH1
FRIDAY
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The Break-Up ›› (’ 06, Romance-Comedy) Vince Vaughn. Former lovers live together as hostile roommates when both refuse to move out of their shared condominium. (cc) BRV 7:00 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trainwreck ››› (’ 15, Romance-Comedy) Amy Schumer. A promiscuous magazine writer considers monogamy for the first time when she starts to fall in love with the charming sports doctor she’s profiling. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX
7:59 am Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III ›› (’ 90, Horror) Kate Hodge. Rural Texas cannibals waylay yuppie motorists driving from Los Angeles to Florida. (cc) . . . . SYFY
8:30 am . 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!
9:45 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It Follows ››› (’ 14, Horror) Maika Monroe. Following a strange sexual encounter, a teenager has disturbing visions and the inescapable feeling that someone — or something — is stalking her. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY
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The Secret Garden ››› (’ 49, Children’s) Margaret O’Brien. An English orphan finds the key to her bitter uncle’s magic garden, seen in color. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM 10:00 am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Brockovich ››› (’ 00, Drama) Julia Roberts. A law clerk researching a client’s health case stumbles on a cover-up of a contaminated water supply in a desert town. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC 11:00 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bad Santa ››› (’ 03, Comedy) Billy Bob Thornton. Two criminals disguise themselves as St. Nick and an elf to rob stores at Christmastime. (cc) MTV 11:30 am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xXx: Return of Xander Cage ›› (’ 17, Action) Vin Diesel. Daredevil operative Xander Cage springs into action when four dangerous criminals steal Pandora’s Box, a device that controls every military satellite in the world. (cc) . . . . . FX 11:30 am You’ll Find Out ›› (’ 40, Musical Comedy) Kay Kyser. A bandleader takes his radio troupe to a gloomy mansion for a debutante’s risky 21st birthday. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM NOON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Last Song
›› (’ 10, Drama) Miley Cyrus. In a Southern beach town, a man tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter through their shared love of music. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E! NOON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 First Dates ›› (’ 04, Romance-Comedy) Adam Sandler. A veterinarian tries to make a woman who has short-term memory loss fall in love with him. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VH1
1:00 pm . . . Bad Santa 2 ›› (’ 16, Comedy)
Billy Bob Thornton. Fueled by cheap whiskey and greed, a foulmouthed criminal, his mean mother and their angry sidekick conspire to bilk a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. (cc) MTV
1:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 ›› (’ 13, Children’s) Voices of Bill Hader. Animated. Discovering that his most-famous machine is now creating animal/vegetable hybrids, inventor Flint Lockwood and his friends venture forth to save the world from tacodiles, shrimpanzees and other creatures. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE
1:00 pm Sleeping With the Enemy ›› (’ 91, Suspense) Julia Roberts. The battered wife of a yuppie neat-freak fakes her death at sea and flees from Cape Cod to Iowa. (cc) AMC
1:15 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The
Smiling Ghost ›› (’ 41, Drama) Alexis Smith.
Lucky is hired to become engaged to Elinor, a wealthy widow. He learns she is nicknamed The Kiss of Death Girl after her last three fiances die violently; Lucky tries to survive after a mysterious figure makes attempts on his life. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM
1:30 pm 300 ››› (’ 06, Action) Gerard Butler. Sparta’s King Leonidas and his badly outnumbered warriors fight to the death against King Xerxes’ massive Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX
2:00 pm A Nightmare on Elm Street ››› (’ 84, Horror) John Saxon. Freddy Krueger, a badly burned boogeyman with razors on his glove, haunts and kills teens in their dreams. (cc) SYFY
2:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . Step Brothers ›› (’ 08, Comedy) Will Ferrell. Two lazy, immature men become rivals when the marriage of one’s mother and the other’s father forces them to live as siblings in the same house. (cc) VH1
2:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . Two on a Guillotine ››
(’65, Horror) Connie Stevens. The daughter of a mad magician must sleep in his mansion to earn his estate; a newsman tags along. (cc) TCM
3:00 pm Lottery Ticket ›› (’ 10, Comedy) Bow Wow. After winning $370 million, a young man must survive a holiday weekend with greedy neighbors before he can claim the prize. (cc) BET
3:00 pm Mary Poppins ›››› (’ 64, Children’s) Julie Andrews. Live action/animated. London children have fun with a marvelous nanny and her chimney-sweep friend. (cc) . FREE
3:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pretty Woman ››› (’ 90, Romance-Comedy) Richard Gere. A corporate raider pays a gorgeous hooker to be his escort for a business week in Beverly Hills. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC 4:00 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! 4:00 pm. . . Star Trek Into Darkness ›››
(’13, Science Fiction) Chris Pine. After an act of terrorism leaves him with a personal score to settle, Capt. Kirk defies Starfleet regulations and leads his crew on a mission to capture a powerfully destructive force. (cc). . . . . . FX 4:00 pm. Lake Placid ›› (’ 99, Horror) Bill Pullman. A New York paleontologist goes to the backwoods of Maine and teams up with the local game warden to stop a 35-foot killer crocodile. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY
4:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . The 40-Year-Old Virgin ››› (’ 05, Romance-Comedy) Steve Carell. Three dysfunctional co-workers embark on a mission to help their newfound friend lose his sexual innocence. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VH1 4:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House on Haunted Hill ››› (’ 59, Horror) Vincent Price. The owner of a haunted mansion offers a group of people reward money if they can survive a night at his scary estate. (cc) TCM 5:00 pm Despicable Me ››› (’ 10, Children’s) Voices of Steve Carell. Animated. As he tries to execute a fiendish plot to steal the moon, a supervillain meets his match in three little orphan girls who want to make him their dad. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NICK
5:30 pm Goodfellas ›››› (’ 90, Crime Drama) Robert De Niro. In the 1950s an Irish-Italian hoodlum joins the New York Mafia, but his mob career is not what he expected. (cc) AMC 5:45 pm . . Monster House ››› (’ 06, Children’s) Voices of Steve Buscemi. Animated. No adults believe three youths’ assertion that a neighboring residence is a living creature that means them harm. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY 6:00 pm Get Rich or Die Tryin’ ›› (’ 05, Crime Drama) Curtis ‘50 Cent‘ Jackson. A drug dealer wants to leave his violent life behind and pursue his dream of becoming a rap artist. (cc) BET
6:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . The Parent Trap ›››
(’98, Children’s) Lindsay Lohan. An 11-year-old meets her California twin, and they plot to reunite their divorced parents. (cc) . . FREE 6:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . The Haunting ›››
(’63, Horror) Julie Harris. An anthropologist, an heir and two ESP-prone women explore a New England mansion. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . TCM
6:25 pm . . . Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel ›› (’ 09, Children’s) Zachary Levi. Live action/animated. Now in the care of Dave Seville’s nephew Toby, chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore enter a battle of the bands contest to save their school’s music program. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DISN
6:30 pm . . . . . . . Sweet Home Alabama ››
(’02, Romance-Comedy) Reese Witherspoon. Separated from her Southern husband, an engaged New York fashion designer confronts him about a divorce. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E!
7:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Martian ›››
(’15, Science Fiction) Matt Damon. Left behind by his crew, a stranded astronaut must find a way to survive on Mars, while NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring him home. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX
7:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Guns ›› (’ 13, Action) Denzel Washington. In the dark about each other’s true identity, two undercover agents from competing bureaus go on the run together after an attempt to infiltrate a drug cartel goes haywire. (cc) PARMT 7:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 First Dates ›› (’ 04, Romance-Comedy) Adam Sandler. A veterinarian tries to make a woman who has short-term memory loss fall in love with him. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VH1
7:45 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pitch Black ›› (’ 00, Science Fiction) Radha Mitchell. After crash landing on a distant planet, survivors must fight deadly creatures that come out only at night. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY 8:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Fabulous Dorseys ›› (’ 47, Musical) Tommy Dorsey. The Pennsylvania brothers argue with each other on their way to fame as big-band leaders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 8:00 pm. Ride Along ›› (’ 14, Comedy) Ice Cube. Premiere. A veteran cop and his future brother-in-law, a fast-talking trainee, tangle with Atlanta’s most-dangerous criminal. (cc) TBS
8:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Horrible Bosses 2 ›› (’ 14, Comedy) Jason Bateman. After a shady investor steals their new invention, Nick, Dale and Kurt conspire to kidnap the man’s adult son and ransom him to pay off their debts. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . TNT 8:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Freaks ››› (’ 32,
Horror) Wallace Ford. Sideshow performers punish acrobat Cleopatra for humiliating their friend, tiny Hans. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM
8:30 pm John Wick: Chapter 2 ››› (’ 17, Action) Keanu Reeves. Legendary hit man John Wick comes out of retirement when a former associate plots to seize control of an international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, Wick travels to Rome to square off against the world’s deadliest killers. (cc) USA
8:30 pm My Cousin Vinny ››› (’ 92, Comedy) Joe Pesci. A wise-guy Brooklyn lawyer and his motormouth girlfriend go to Alabama to defend his innocent cousin for murder. (cc) AMC
9:00 pm. . . . . . . Sweet Home Alabama ››
(’02, Romance-Comedy) Reese Witherspoon. Separated from her Southern husband, an engaged New York fashion designer confronts him about a divorce. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E! 9:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . Step Brothers ›› (’ 08, Comedy) Will Ferrell. Two lazy, immature men become rivals when the marriage of one’s mother and the other’s father forces them to live as siblings in the same house. (cc) VH1 9:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Secret Life of Pets ››› (’ 16, Children’s) Voices of Louis C.K. Premiere. Animated. A domesticated terrier and his unruly canine pal encounter a rebellious bunny and his gang of abandoned pets. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE
9:15 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carnival Story ›› (’ 54, Drama) Anne Baxter. Willie, a German woman, joins an American carnival passing through Munich. While traveling town to town, she joins Frank in his high-dive act, but tragedy is only a slip away. . . . . . . . TCM
9:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pain & Gain ››
(’13, Action) Mark Wahlberg. In 1990s Miami, a gym manager and his muscular accomplices kidnap a wealthy businessman and force him to sign over all his assets — including cars and a luxurious mansion — to them. (cc) PARMT 9:45 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Last Witch Hunter ›› (’ 15, Fantasy) Vin Diesel. The fate of the human race hangs in the balance when the Witch Queen rises from the dead, seeking revenge against Kaulder, the immortal warrior who slayed her centuries ago. (cc) . . . SYFY 10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Martian ›››
(’15, Science Fiction) Matt Damon. Left behind by his crew, a stranded astronaut must find a way to survive on Mars, while NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring him home. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 10:00 pm . . . . . . . The Wedding Ringer ››
(’15, Comedy) Kevin Hart. A socially awkward groom begins an unexpected bromance with the guy he hired to pose as his best man at his upcoming nuptials. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . TBS
SATURDAY
6:00 am The Last Song ›› (’ 10, Drama) Miley Cyrus. In a Southern beach town, a man tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter through their shared love of music. (cc) E!
6:30 am The Honeymoon Machine ››› (’ 61, Comedy) Steve McQueen. A Navy officer, his buddy and a computer whiz devise a ship-toshore scheme to win at roulette. (cc) . TCM
7:00 am . . . Star Trek Into Darkness ›››
(’13, Science Fiction) Chris Pine. After an act of terrorism leaves him with a personal score to settle, Capt. Kirk defies Starfleet regulations and leads his crew on a mission to capture a powerfully destructive force. (cc). . . . . . FX
7:30 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Goonies ››› (’ 85, Children’s) Sean Astin. Coastal Oregon kids follow the treasure map of pirate One-Eyed Willie past his deadly traps to gold. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE
8:45 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fifty Shades of Grey ›› (’ 15, Romance) Dakota Johnson. An inexperienced college student begins a daring affair with a controlling businessman whose sexual proclivities push the boundaries of pain and pleasure. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E!