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SUNDAY
The Love Punch (2013) 12
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1.55PM, CH5 ★★★
Comedy starring Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan (above) as the divorced couple who team up when their money is stolen by a corrupt French businessman. In Paris, they make an elaborate plan. With Celia Imrie, Timothy Spall and Tuppence Middleton..
Dunkirk(1958) PG
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2.45PM, BBC2 ★★★
With roles tailor-made for its stars – John Mills as a gung-ho corporal, Bernard Lee a cynical journo, Richard Attenborough a stay-at-home businessman – this was an ambitious attempt to film a heroic endeavour.
D.A.R.Y.L (1985) PG
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3PM, RTÉ2 ★★★
Fun fantasy adventure about a couple who adopt a small boy with amazing talents, unaware he is a smart cyborg whose creators want him terminated. Mary Beth Hurt and Barret Oliver head the cast.
Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian (2009) PG ●
4.30PM, CH4 ★★★ Watchable sequel, with Ben Stiller’s night watchman this time infiltrating the Smithsonian to rescue his pals, who are no longer coming to life... Amy Adams joins the cast as aviatrix Amelia Earhart (above).
Jurassic World (2015) 12
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6.35PM, ITV2 ★★★★
Chris Pratt stars in this thrilling follow-up to (and reboot of) the blockbuster film series. The park is under new ownership, with Bryce Dallas Howard as the operations manager welcoming her young nephews for a visit. Cue a series of unfortunate events...
Allied (2016) 15
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11PM, CH4 ★★★
Wartime romantic action thriller directed by Robert Zemeckis starring Marion Cotillard and Brad Pitt as covert agents who fall in love while on a mission in Casablanca. Back in Britain, married and with a young daughter, Marianne (Cotillard) comes under suspicion of being a German spy.
MONDAY
Killer Nightshift (2018) PG ●
2.20PM, CH5 ★★
Trouble looms for pregnant Tricia (Christie Burson) when one of the two care workers she hires when she is confined to bed rest turns out to have a screw loose. Night nurse Katy (Cynthia Evans) has a twisted vendetta.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) 12 ◆ 7.20PM, ITV2 ★★★★
This Star Wars spin-off is a ripping standalone yarn that gives as well as takes from the franchise. Felicity Jones plays a warrior (above, with snarky robot K-2SO) fighting Stormtroopers and worse to free her father.
The Commitments (1991) 15
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9PM, VIRGIN THREE ★★★★★
Alan Parker’s outstanding comedy drama about a would-be music producer from Dublin who assembles an unusual soul band (below). With Robert Arkins and Angeline Ball.
American Gangster
(2007) 18 ▲ 9.30PM, TG4 ★★★★
Ridley Scott’s epic crime drama about 1970s drug kingpin Frank Lucas and the cop who tried to bring him down. Russell Crowe (below) and Denzel Washington are as magnetic as ever.
Jupiter Ascending (2015) 12
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11PM, CH5 ★★★
Colourful and inventive space opera from the Wachowskis. Mila Kunis stars as Jupiter Jones, the Earth girl who discovers that she has an interplanetary destiny. Channing Tatum plays her genetically engineered warrior love interest.
TUESDAY
Beetlejuice (1988) 15
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9PM, 5STAR ★★★★
Michael Keaton dons a different guise (see above), this time as an anarchic exorcist – of the living. Hired by kindly ghosts (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) to get rid of their dream home’s new owners, the couple get far more trouble than they bargained for.
My Name Is Emily
(2015)
12 ◆ 10.15PM, VIRGIN THREE ★★★★ Evanna Lynch (Harry Potter) and Michael Smiley star in this fine homegrown drama about a teenager who runs away from her foster home and plans to break her dad out of an institution.
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 15 ◆ 10.30PM, ITV4 ★★★★ Kathryn Bigelow’s gutsy drama about the hunt for Osama bin Laden makes Jessica Chastain the human face of the war on terror. She’s CIA agent Maya (right), doing what it takes to catch her high-profile terrorist target, ahead of an explosive finale.
The Island (2005) 12
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10.55PM, 5STAR ★★★
Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor do a lot of running around in this bigbucks sci-fi adventure from Michael Bay. It starts promisingly, in a Logan’s Runstyle facility, and goes on to tread a wellworn path.
Along Came A Spider (2001) 15
◆ 11.50PM, FILM4 ★★★
The first book in James Patterson’s Alex Cross series (and the second to be filmed) is turned into a taut, tricksy thriller. Morgan Freeman is Cross, the almost preternatural police psychologist brought out of retirement to find a very important girl.
The Iceman (2012) 15 ◆ 12.30AM, CH4 ★★★ In this gritty, fact-based crime drama, Michael Shannon stars as infamous mob hit man Richard Kuklinski, an assassin who balanced his cold-blooded career with life as a devoted family man. Ray Liotta plays his mob paymaster, Roy DeMeo (above).
WEDNESDAY
Wedding Planner Mystery (2014) PG ● 2.15PM, CH5 ★★
In between organising wedding celebrations for discerning (i.e., stinking rich) clients, unflappable Carnegie Kincaid (Erica Durance) sets about solving the murder of a bridesmaid, and clearing her name.
Circle Of Friends (1995) 15
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10PM, VIRGIN THREE ★★★★
Minnie Driver is on good form as a naive Irish woman who joins two friends at university in 1950s Dublin. She falls for a rugby player, while her pals pursue romances of their own. Saffron Burrows, Geraldine O’Rawe, Chris O’Donnell (above, with Driver) and Colin Firth also star in this amiable conversion of the Maeve Binchy page-turner.
Cop Land (1997) 18
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10.30PM, ITV4 ★★★★
This gritty crime drama has a fabulous cast, including Sylvester Stallone (below), Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta and Harvey Keitel. Stallone plays a suburban sheriff working on the edge of New York City, who becomes embroiled in dangerous police corruption. 120 BPM (2017) 15
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11.05PM, FILM4 ★★★★
Energetic French drama, set in 1990s Paris, as gay activists protest against government antipathy to the Aids crisis. The film comes alive through the stories of the individuals involved, among them HIV-positive Sean (Nahuel Perez Biscayart).
The Garden (1990) 15
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1.55AM, FILM4 ★★★★
Derek Jarman’s art-house drama was shot at Prospect Cottage, his home in Dungeness, Kent – there is currently a campaign to save the property and preserve Jarman’s legacy. A unique film, set in a truly unique location – in the shadow of a nuclear power plant.