Movie picks

SATURDAY

Bad Boys For Life, Ch4, 9pm

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reprise their roles as Detective Lieutenants Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett in the third instalment of the hit action-comedy cop franchise.

We meet the dynamic duo as Marcus starts to think about retiring. The pair are at a party for Marcus’s new grandson when Mike is shot and left in a coma.

His shooter — Armando Aretas (Jacob Scipio) — is the son of the late Benito Aretas.

Benito was a drug cartel kingpin, and married to Isabel (Kate del Castillo), who Armando has just helped escape from prison.

Isabel orders her son to recover a big chunk of money, as well as assassinate those responsible for her husband’s demise. Last on the kill list is Mike.

But Armando messes up the plan by shooting Mike first. When Mike finally emerges from his coma, raring for revenge, Marcus has already retired and can’t be convinced to take up the badge again, causing a rift between the pair.

Mike is reluctantly placed with a high-tech unit tasked with identifying his shooter.

But as the stakes heighten and casualties accumulate, technology just won’t cut it.

Why is Isabel so vengeful towards Mike? To answer that question, the Bad Boys must bury the hatchet and pick up their guns.

SUNDAY

School of Rock, Ch4, 2.55pm Jack Black stars in Richard Linklater’s comedy as Dewey Finn, a slacker rock musician who dreams of the big time. But his rock ‘n’ roll ambitions hit the buffers when his group sack him and then his landlady tells him he needs to start paying his rent.

To make ends meet, he bluffs his way into a job as a supply teacher at an expensive private school, where he discovers his class actually have some musical ability.

Maybe, if he can harness their talent to the world of rock and enter them in a Battle of the Bands, he’ll have found his purpose.

TUESDAY

Sister Act, Film4, 7pm Whoopi Goldberg stars in Emile Ardolino’s comedy thriller as Deloris Van Cartier, a lounge singer at a casino managed by her lovervince Larocca (Harvey Keitel).

He’s also a drugs baron, and when she accidentally interrupts him in the process of disposing of a stool pigeon, she has to run for her life.

To keep her safe until Larocca can be charged, the police arrange for her to pose as Sister Mary Clarence at a convent overseen by a stern Mother Superior (Maggie Smith).

But you can’t keep a good singer down and ‘Sister Mary’ has soon so successfully invigorated the choir with her musical talent that the church is packed; there’s even a call from Rome for a Papal performance.

Unfortunately, thanks to an inside man in the police department, Larocca finds out where she is and sets out to prevent her from testifying.

Can the nuns protect her?

FRIDAY

Men In Black III, Film4, 9pm

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones reprise their roles in Barry Sonnenfeld’s sci-fi action-comedy sequel about the agency that keeps Earth’s human inhabitants blissfully oblivious to the pervasive existence of aliens.

The film opens with the homicidal extraterrestrial Boris the Animal (Jemaine Clement) escaping his 40-year incarceration in a secret high-security prison on the moon, and setting out for long-awaited revenge on Agent K (Jones), who shot off his arm when he was captured.

Time-travelling to the late 1960s, Boris intends to avoid his amputation, wipe Agent K from history and lead an army to invade Earth.