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Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) ✰✰✰✰ (Sky Cinema Premiere,

12.25pm & 8.00pm) Single parent Callie (Carrie Coon) and her two children, Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) reluctantly move into the farmhouse of Callie’s late father in the sleepy Oklahoma town of Summerville. While Trevor makes faltering romantic overtures to Lucky (Celeste O’Connor), Phoebe befriends classmate Podcast (Logan Kim). The children stumble upon a secret, buried deep beneath the hilly terrain of Summerville. Aided by Phoebe’s teacher, Mr Grooberson (Paul Rudd), the tykes answer the Ghostbusters call and confront a terrifying spectral threat with refurbished proton packs. Ghostbusters: Afterlife is an entertaining, if schmaltzy, fourth instalment in the series, which ignores the unfairly derided 2016 reboot and directly references the 1984 film.

Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) ✰✰✰✰ (BBC2, 8.00pm)

The year is 1870 and Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan) lives with her aunt on the adjacent property to handsome sheep farmer Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), whose heartfelt advances she rebuffs. Soon after, Bathsheba inherits her uncle’s vast estate and defies expectation to turn around the ailing farm, hiring Gabriel as the estate’s shepherd. Meanwhile, emotionally repressed and wealthy farmer William Boldwood (Michael Sheen) makes his feelings for Bathsheba known, but her head is turned by dashing and reckless Sergeant Troy (Tom Sturridge). Anchored by Mulligan’s nuanced performance, Far from the Madding Crowd is a visually striking portrait of rural desires, even if it can’t quite live up to John Schlesinger’s 1967 version.