MOVIE PLANNER

SUNDAY

Parental Guidance (2012) U

● 1.50PM, CH4 HHH

Comedy starring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler (above) as the couple having a cross-generational difference of opinion over parenting styles when they look after their grandchildren. There’s a happy ending waiting after some mess and hand-wringing.

This Beautiful Fantastic (2016) PG ● 3PM, BBC2 HHH

Jessica Brown Findlay stars as Bella (below), a timid young woman whose life starts to flourish as she makes new friends. Tom Wilkinson is her cranky neighbour, with Andrew Scott as his long-suffering cook.

The Legend Of Tarzan (2016) 12

◆ 6.50PM, ITV2 HHH

Edgar Rice Burroughs’s jungle man hero is given another Hollywood update, with Alexander Skarsgard rippling his muscles as the Earl of Greystoke, aka Tarzan. Christoph Waltz is on villain duty (again), causing harm in Tarzan’s old Congo home.

The Mountain Between Us (2017) 12

◆ 9PM, CH4 HHH

A plane goes down in Utah’s isolated High Uintas Wilderness, and two passengers and a dog must fend for themselves. Kate Winslet and Idris Elba star.

The Boys From Brazil (1978) 18

▲ 11.45PM, VIRGIN THREE HHH

A distinguished cast, including Laurence Olivier, Gregory Peck and James Mason, star in this pulpy tale of a plot by a notorious Nazi war criminal to create an army of Hitler clones. 1985 (2018) 15

◆ 1.10AM, CH4 HHH This sensitively handled family drama is shot in grainy black-and-white, with a perfectly chosen soundtrack of familiar 1980s tunes. Cory Michael Smith stars as the closeted gay man, living with Aids, who visits his conservative parents in Texas to say his farewells.

MONDAY

A Killer In My Home (2020) 12

◆ 2.15PM, CH5 HH

With a set-up not too dissimilar to Holly Walsh’s BBC1 comedy The Other One (but without the laughs), this TV movie follows a wife and mother who discovers that her recently deceased husband had another family. Six months later, that family arrives on her doorstep. Bree Williamson stars.

Strike (2018) PG

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6.15PM, SKY PREMIERE HHH

Mungo (above) is a mole who, with the help of some magic goggles, gets the chance to fulfil his dream of playing football and, at the same time, save his gold mine community from a greedy villain. This delightful stop-motion animation is a winner.

The Inbetweeners Movie (2011) 15 ◆ 9PM, E4 HHH

The friends, played by Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas, get up to no good in their first big-screen outing as they take themselves off for a much-needed holiday on Crete after finishing their A levels. Hijinks and embarrassment prevail. 28 Days Later (2002) 18

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9.30PM, TG4 HHHHH

Cillian Murphy stars in Danny Boyle’s horror as a man who awakens from a coma to find Britain has been ravaged by a virus that sends the victims into a homicidal rage. He joins forces with other survivors to head for safety, but he’s not just at risk from infection... Naomie Harris and Brendan Gleeson (below) also star.

Mad Max (1979) 18

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10PM, ITV4 HHHH

In one of his early starring roles, Mel Gibson plays his part in a film that shook up Australian cinema and became a cult classic. It’s set in a society on the brink of violent lawlessness; Max is the cop who hangs up his badge to fight a running battle on four wheels.

TUESDAY

Secrets That Kill (2020) 12

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2.15PM, CH5 HH

Thriller starring Jillian Murray (above) as a woman whose life on the family ranch is turned upside down when her widowed mum gets herself a much younger husband. It’s a trigger for dark family secrets to emerge.

Playing For Keeps (2012) 12 ◆ 6.55PM, SONY MOVIES HHH Romcom starring Gerard Butler (left) as George, the hot new man in town – and the soccer mums can’t keep away from him. A washed-up pro football player, George wants to rebuild his relationship with his son, and has plenty to learn about being a father.

Web Of Evidence (1959) PG

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7.15PM, TALKING PICTURES TV HHH Directed by Jack Cardiff, this British thriller follows Van Johnson, evacuated to America as a child during the Second World War. Returning home for the first time in 20 years, he learns that his father is in prison for murder, and sets about trying to clear his name.

On Deadly Ground (1994) 15

◆ 10.10PM, ITV4 HHH

Steven Seagal’s film – as star, director and co-producer – enters the so-bad-it’sgood camp with ease. It’s pretty dated, but audiences lapped it up at the time, an action drama with an eco-theme (oil industry: bad) that still feels shamefully relevant today.

American Assassin (2017) 18

▲ 11.25PM, FILM4 HHH

Dylan O’Brien (below) stars as a young man driven to revenge after his fiancee is gunned down by terrorists. Locating the cell responsible, he is targeted by the CIA, who want to recruit him to a black ops team. Michael Keaton co-stars as his laconic mentor.

WEDNESDAY

Snow White And The Huntsman (2012) 12 ◆ 6.25PM, FILM4 HHH

The Brothers Grimm fairytale heroine is given a makeover as a princess who won’t take her fate lying down. Chris Hemsworth and Kristen Stewart (below) co-star as the huntsman and his prey, with both of their stories getting different endings.

For Your Eyes Only (1981) PG

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8PM, ITV4 HHH

Carole Bouquet is the crossbow-wielding marine biologist teaming up with Roger Moore’s James Bond to avenge the murder of her parents. Our hero, 007, has his hands full – he is also on an important mission to find missing British military technology.

Dunkirk (2017) 12

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9.35PM, RTÉ ONE HHHHH

Director Christopher Nolan’s gripping and intriguingly structured war film boasts an impressive cast, including Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance and a convincing Harry Styles. It follows the events of Dunkirk from the perspectives of the soldiers, RAF pilots and the boat owners who came to the rescue.

Safe House (2012) 15

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10.35PM, ITV4 HHH

Denzel Washington (above) plays a morally ambiguous character with aplomb in this otherwise so-so actioner. He’s a former CIA man locked up for safekeeping after going rogue, and running rings round his ‘babysitter’.

These Are The Damned (1962) PG

● 11.50PM, TALKING PICTURES TV HHH Blacklisted in Hollywood, director Joseph Losey fled to London, where he would make three films with Harold Pinter, among them 1963’s The Servant. Before that came this superior sci-fi thriller, which finds the south coast of England a scary place to be.

THURSDAY

The Bravados (1958) PG

● 12.55PM, FILM4 ★★★

Gregory Peck stars in Henry King’s revenge western as a man pursuing those he believes are guilty of raping and murdering his wife. After the bandits escape their execution, Peck’s rancher (above, with Joan Collins and Maria Gracia) goes after them one by one.

A Beautiful Place To Die: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery

(2020) PG ● 2.15PM, CH5 ★★

Jesse Metcalfe, best-known as the hunky gardener in Desperate Housewives, plays a retired police detective who teams up with a plucky medical examiner to solve crime.

The Fugitive (1993) 15 u 9PM, ITV4 ★★★★

For pace and peril, this thriller is still hard to beat. Harrison Ford is the surgeon (left), wrongly convicted of his wife’s murder, who goes on the run to clear his name by finding the real killer. His pursuer, Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), returns in spin-off US Marshals (Thursday, 9pm, ITV4).

Touching The Void (2003) 15

u 10PM, CH4 ★★★★★

This Bafta-winning documentary is a nail-biting account of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates’s ill-fated attempt to climb the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. Their horrifying ordeal is brought chillingly to life by Scottish director Kevin Macdonald.

The Survivors Club (2004) 15

u 12MIDNIGHT, VIRGIN ONE ★★★

Roma Downey, Jacqueline Bisset and Lauren Lee Smith star in this thriller as three women who come under suspicion when their rapist is shot ahead of his trial.

Our Idiot Brother (2011) 15 u 1.50AM, CH4 ★★★ Comedy drama in which Paul Rudd (right) beards up to play a hippy whose laid-back lifestyle infuriates his three sisters (Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer). Ultimately, though, he rubs off on them in a good way.

FRIDAY

Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Very Foul Play (2019) PG

● 2.15PM, CH5 ★★★

Librarian sleuth Aurora leaves her home town to find that murder follows her wherever she goes – this time, at a mountain resort hosting a true-crime convention.

John Wick (2014) 15 u

9PM, VIRGIN ONE ★★★★

Keanu Reeves (above) is on terrific form in this stylish, if very violent, action thriller. He plays a legendary hitman who comes out of retirement to avenge the death of his puppy, which was a present from his late wife.

Senna (2010) 12 u

10.15PM, TG4 ★★★★

You don’t have to be a Formula One fan to be fascinated by this acclaimed documentary about driver Ayrton Senna. It charts his career over the 10 years leading up to his death in a crash at a 1994 Grand Prix.

Borg vs McEnroe (2017) 15 u

11.20PM, BBC2 ★★★

The leads really look the part, especially Sverrir Gudnason as Bjorn Borg, while Shia LaBeouf (left) nails the rage of John McEnroe. This entertaining biopic follows the rivals as they head to the 1980 Wimbledon final.

3:10 To Yuma (2007) 15

u 11.45PM, BBC1 ★★★★ Elmore Leonard’s 1953 story is reworked 50 years after Delmer Daves’s classic. Russell Crowe and Christian Bale (right) take the Wade/ Evans roles, with Peter Fonda as the veteran Pinkerton detective,

Byron McElroy.

The China Syndrome (1979) PG

● 12.05AM, RTé ONE ★★★★

Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas star in a tense thriller about an operation flaw at a nuclear power station. A TV news crew discovers the problem, but face a cover up.

SATURDAY

The Jungle Book (2016)

PG ● 5PM, BBC1 ★★★★

One of the best in the recent spates of Disney remakes mixes live action and CGI to tell the story of Mowgli (Neel Sethi) who is raised by animals in the jungle.

Bill Murray and Idris Elba are among the voices.

Dr No (1962)

● 8.30PM, UTV ★★★★

James Bond investigates a criminal mastermind in the Caribbean who is plotting to sabotage the US space programme. Spy thriller, with Sean Connery and Ursula Andress.

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) 12 u

9.10PM, RTé2 ★★★★

The revived space saga gets off to a riproaring start. Daisy Ridley (above) joins the returning stars as Rey, who is drawn into the search for Luke Skywalker.

It’s Complicated (2009) 15

u 9.45PM, RTé1 ★★★★

Director Nancy Meyers’ romantic comedy stars Meryl Streep as a woman who sleeps with her ex-husband (Alec Baldwin). But he’s remarried, and she’s met a potential new man (Steve Martin).

Triple9 (2016) 15 u

11.05PM, CH4★★★

It’s hard to like the lowlifes here – criminals and corrupt cops alike – but the cast is a knockout. Kate Winslet (above) takes a walk on the trashy side, while Chiwetel Ejiofor, Gal Gadot and Woody Harrelson are all in on the heist.