THIS WEEK’S MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS
SUNDAY
6:00 am . . . . . . The Blue Angel ›››› (’30, Drama) Emil Jannings. Josef von Sternberg’s classic tells of a middle-aged professor whose obsession with a young cabaret singer leads to his downfall. TCM 6:30 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Outbreak
›› (’ 95, Suspense) Dustin Hoffman. An Army doctor fights the spread of a deadly virus brought into the United States by an African monkey. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC 7:00 am Unforgiven ›››› (’ 92, Western) Clint Eastwood. An old gunslinger, his expartner and a quick-draw kid go bounty hunting in a town called Big Whiskey. (cc) HIST
7:00 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 ›› (’ 16, Romance-Comedy) Nia Vardalos. The Portokalos clan makes plans for a huge wedding after a shocking family secret comes to light. (cc) . FREE 8:00 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mr. & Mrs. Smith ›› (’ 05, Action) Brad Pitt. A husband and wife are unaware that each is an international assassin who has just been assigned to kill the other. (cc) PARMT
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ››› (’ 39, Historical Drama) Bette Davis. Matronly Elizabeth I loves the dashing Earl of Essex, but politics come first. (cc) TCM 9:00 am . The Purge: Election Year ››
(’16, Action) Frank Grillo. Trapped on the streets of Washington, D.C., a presidential candidate and her head of security must survive an annual night of terror where all crime is legal for 12 hours. (cc) . . . . . FX 9:00 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Admission ››
(’13, Comedy-Drama) Tina Fey. Premiere. A driven Princeton University admissions officer thinks that a precocious applicant from an experimental high school may be the son she gave up for adoption. (cc) FREE 9:30 am . . . . Lethal Weapon ››› (’ 87, Action) Mel Gibson. A detective with a family hunts drug smugglers with his new partner, a loner with a death wish. (cc)
AMC
10:00 am Tombstone ››› (’ 93, Western) Kurt Russell. Doc Holliday joins Wyatt Earp and his brothers for an OK Corral showdown with the Clanton gang. (cc) HIST 10:00 am . Ice Age: The Meltdown ›› (’06, Children’s) Voices of Ray Romano. Animated. Manny, Sid and Diego reunite to warn their friends about the danger to their homes posed by swiftly melting ice. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NICK 10:00 am The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry ›› (’ 45, Mystery) George Sanders. Mad Harry poisons his bad sister’s cocoa; his good sister drinks it.. . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM 10:45 am. A League of Their Own ›››
(’92, Comedy-Drama) Tom Hanks. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League begins in 1943 with a major-league has-been as a manager. (cc). . . . PARMT 11:00 am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul ›› (’ 11, Comedy) Simon Pegg. On a pilgrimage to America’s UFO heartland, two British sci-fi geeks meet an extraterrestrial and hatch a plan to help him return to his spaceship. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY 11:00 am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pacific
Rim ››› (’ 13, Science Fiction) Charlie Hunnam. A washed-up ex-pilot and an untested trainee must drive an old, obsolete robot in a last-ditch effort to repel a lethal force of monstrous invaders. (cc) . TNT 11:30 am . . World War Z ››› (’ 13, Horror) Brad Pitt. When a zombie pandemic threatens to destroy humanity, a former United Nations investigator is forced back into service to try to uncover the source of the infection. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 11:45 am Lydia ››› (’ 41, Romance) Merle Oberon. An elderly woman recalls her romantic past and her unrequited love for a New England gentleman. (cc). . . TCM NOON . . . . Lethal Weapon 2 ››› (’ 89, Action) Mel Gibson. An accountant leads a wild detective and his cautious partner to a South African diplomat running drugs. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC 1:00 pm . . . . . . The Apartment ›››› (’60, Comedy-Drama) Jack Lemmon. A corporate climber, whose boss and others use his apartment for hanky-panky, aids a young woman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^ 1:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jumping the Broom ›› (’ 11, Comedy) Angela Bassett. Two diverse families lock horns on Martha’s Vineyard at the wedding of a woman from old money and a man whose mother is a postal worker. (cc) . . . . BET 1:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X-Men:
The Last Stand ›› (’ 06, Action) Hugh Jackman. An all-out war looms when the discovery of a cure for mutations draws a line between the followers of Charles Xavier and those of Magneto. . . . . SYFY 1:00 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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBS
1:30 pm The Help ››› (’ 11, Drama) Viola Davis. Determined to become a writer, a 1960s Mississippi society girl turns her small town on its ear by interviewing black women who work for prominent white families. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PARMT
1:30 pm Friendly Persuasion ›››› (’ 56, Drama) Gary Cooper. Indiana Quakers disagree over their son’s desire to join the Civil War. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM
1:35 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . My Best Friend’s Wedding ››› (’ 97, Romance-Comedy) Julia Roberts. A writer realizes that she is in love with her best friend and tries to stop him from marrying another woman, a guileless heiress. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . FREE 2:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Fugitive ››› (’ 93, Suspense) Harrison Ford. A U.S. marshal hunts a doctor on the run who was convicted of murdering his wife. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A&E 2:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . Now You See Me 2 ›› (’ 16, Adventure) Jesse Eisenberg. A devious tech wizard forces the illusionists known as the Four Horsemen to steal a powerful chip that can control all of the world’s computers. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 2:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thor: Ragnarok ››› (’ 17, Action) Chris Hemsworth. Thor must battle the Hulk in a deadly gladiatorial contest and prevent the all-powerful Hela from destroying his home world and the Asgardian civilization. (cc). . . . . TNT
2:30 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) BRV
2:30 pm. . . Lethal Weapon 3 ››› (’ 92, Action) Mel Gibson. Los Angeles police detectives crush a guns-to-gangs operation with a wild woman from internal affairs. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC 3:00 pm Tomb Raider ›› (’ 18, Adventure) Alicia Vikander. Hoping to solve the mystery of her father’s disappearance, young Lara Croft embarks on a perilous journey to his last-known destination — a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. (cc) SYFY
3:30 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 3:40 pm There’s Something About Mary ››› (’ 98, Romance-Comedy) Cameron Diaz. A geek hires a sleazy private eye to report on a woman he has adored since high school. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE 4:00 pm The Miracle Worker ››› (’ 62, Biography) Anne Bancroft. Teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf and blind Helen Keller out of darkness. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM 4:30 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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PARMT
4:45 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Avengers: Infinity War ››› (’ 18, Action) Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk and the rest of the Avengers unite to battle the evil Thanos — an intergalactic despot who plans to use all six Infinity Stones to inflict his twisted will on reality. (cc) TNT 5:00 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) A&E
5:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hidden Figures ››› (’ 16, Historical Drama) Taraji P. Henson. NASA mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson cross gender and race lines to help launch astronaut John Glenn into outer space. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 5:00 pm Lethal Weapon 4 ›› (’ 98, Action) Mel Gibson. Los Angeles police partners take on members of a Chinese triad who are smuggling families from the mainland. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC
5:15 pm . . . . . . . Zombieland ››› (’ 09, Comedy) Woody Harrelson. Survivors of a zombie apocalypse use creative means to dispatch the undead as they make their way toward a rumored safe haven in Los Angeles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY
5:30 pm Ocean’s 8 ›› (’ 18, Comedy) Sandra Bullock. Criminal mastermind Debbie Ocean and seven other female thieves try to pull off the heist of the century at New York’s annual Met Gala. Their target — a necklace that’s worth more than $150 million. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBS 6:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail ›› (’ 09, Comedy) Tyler Perry. After a high-speed car chase and anger-management issues land Madea behind bars, she befriends a young prostitute. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . BET 6:00 pm . . . . . . A Little Romance ››› (’79, Romance-Comedy) Laurence Olivier. A worldly Parisian tells two teenage lovers to kiss at dusk under the Bridge of Sighs in Venice. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM
6:15 pm Coming to America ››› (’ 88, Comedy) Eddie Murphy. Pampered Prince Akeem of Zamunda comes to New York with his royal sidekick to find a true-love bride. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE 7:00 pm The Help ››› (’ 11, Drama) Viola Davis. Determined to become a writer, a 1960s Mississippi society girl turns her small town on its ear by interviewing black women who work for prominent white families. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PARMT 7:00 pm . . . . Hancock ›› (’ 08, Action)
Will Smith. A scruffy superhero protects the citizens of Los Angeles but leaves horrendous collateral damage in the wake of every well-intentioned feat. (cc) . SYFY 8:00 pm The Wolverine ›› (’ 13, Action) Hugh Jackman. In Japan and vulnerable for the first time, Wolverine confronts lethal samurai steel and grapples with the ghosts of his own haunted past. (cc) A&E 8:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . First Man ›››
(’18, Biography) Ryan Gosling. Premiere. Engineer Neil Armstrong spends years in training after joining NASA in the 1960s. On July 16, 1969, the nation and world watch in wonder as Armstrong and fellow astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins embark on a historic mission to the moon. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 8:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Heat ››
(’13, Comedy) Sandra Bullock. Premiere. An arrogant, methodical FBI agent must join forces with a foul-mouthed, erratic Boston detective to bring down a ruthless drug lord. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBS 8:00 pm Avengers: Endgame ››› (’ 19, Action) Robert Downey Jr. Premiere. The remaining Avengers — Thor, Black Widow, Captain America and Bruce Banner — must figure out a way to bring back their vanquished allies for an epic showdown with Thanos — the evil demigod who decimated the planet and the universe. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TNT 8:00 pm . . . . . . . Forrest Gump ›››› (’94, Comedy-Drama) Tom Hanks. JFK,
LBJ, Vietnam, Watergate and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75. (cc) AMC 8:00 pm . . . . . . . . . Overboard ›› (’ 87, Comedy) Goldie Hawn. A yachtsman’s wife falls overboard, forgets who she is and becomes an Oregon carpenter’s mate. (cc) TCM
8:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jumping the Broom ›› (’ 11, Comedy) Angela Bassett. Two diverse families lock horns on Martha’s Vineyard at the wedding of a woman from old money and a man whose mother is a postal worker. (cc) . . . . BET
8:55 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dumb & Dumber ››› (’ 94, Comedy) Jim Carrey. An inept dog groomer and a limousine driver chase the latter’s dream girl cross country. (cc) FREE
9:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olympus Has Fallen ›› (’ 13, Action) Gerard Butler. America’s national security team must rely on a disgraced former guard to save the president after terrorists seize control of the White House, taking the chief of state hostage. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY 10:00 pm I Love You Again ››› (’ 40, Comedy) William Powell. A businessman snaps out of 9-year amnesia, reverts to con man and falls in love with his wife. (cc) TCM
MONDAY
6:00 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No More Ladies ›› (’ 35, Romance-Comedy) Joan Crawford. A socialite tries to reform her playboy husband while another man waits patiently for her. (cc). . . . . . . TCM 7:00 am . . . 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
7:30 am . . . . . . . Bachelor Mother ››› (’39, Romance-Comedy) Ginger Rogers. An unmarried store clerk finds a baby on a doorstep and is quickly mistaken for its mother. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM 9:00 am Honeymoon Hotel ›› (’ 64, Comedy) Robert Goulet. A jilted bridegroom and his bachelor best man put to use the booked suite at a Caribbean resort. (cc) TCM 10:00 am . . . . . . . . Sabotage ››› (’ 14, Action) Arnold Schwarzenegger. Premiere. Members of an elite DEA task force are eliminated one by one following their successful robbery of a powerful drug cartel’s safe house. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC 10:30 am Tomb Raider ›› (’ 18, Adventure) Alicia Vikander. Hoping to solve the mystery of her father’s disappearance, young Lara Croft embarks on a perilous journey to his last-known destination — a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. (cc) SYFY
10:30 am Keeping Up With the Joneses
›› (’ 16, Comedy) Zach Galifianakis. An ordinary suburban couple discover it’s not easy keeping up with their gorgeous and ultra-sophisticated new neighbors, the Joneses, especially when they discover that Mr. and Mrs. Jones are really covert operatives. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE 10:30 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer ››› (’47, Comedy) Cary Grant. A judge orders a playboy to date her infatuated teenage sister to cure the girl’s crush on him. (cc) TCM
11:00 am. . . 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 11:00 am. . . . We’re the Millers ›› (’ 13, Comedy) Jennifer Aniston. Indebted to a big-time drug lord, a pot dealer travels to Mexico with a fake family and a camper to pick up a large shipment and smuggle it into the U.S. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MTV 12:15 pm Every Girl Should Be Married ›› (’48, Comedy) Cary Grant. A store clerk uses strategy and her rich boss to lure an eligible doctor into marriage. (cc) TCM 12:30 pm Fight Club ››› (’ 99, Suspense) Brad Pitt. Two young professionals create an underground club where men can compete in hand-to-hand combat. (cc) AMC
1:00 pm . . . . . The Purge: Anarchy ››
(’14, Action) Frank Grillo. During a night of government-sanctioned mayhem, a man’s mission to avenge his late son turns into a quest to protect a group of strangers from violent assailants. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY
1:30 pm Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues ››› (’ 13, Comedy) Will Ferrell. Ron Burgundy tries to stay classy when he and his team take New York and the nation’s first 24-hour global cable news network by storm. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX