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SUNDAY Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War

(2002) 12 ◆ 12.55PM, CH5 ★★★

Widow Thelma Caldicot (Pauline Collins, above), who had lived in the shadow of her ungrateful husband, is put in a home by her ungrateful son (Peter Capaldi). Thankfully, she finds a new lease of life as she fights to improve conditions in the home.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

(1997) PG ● 2.05PM, UTV ★★★

Steven Spielberg’s decent sequel to his epic 1993 dinosaur adventure. Four years after the events of the first film, scientists clash with corporate sharks at a second island where dinosaurs are running wild.

This Beautiful Fantastic

(2016) PG ● 2.35PM, BBC2 ★★★ Jessica Brown Findlay stars as Bella (left), a timid young woman whose life starts to flourish as she makes new friends – much like the garden that they help her to tend. Tom Wilkinson is her cranky neighbour, with Andrew Scott as his long-suffering cook.

The Man Who Would Be King

(1975) PG ● 3.20PM, RTé ONE ★★★★★

Sean Connery and Michael Caine make a terrific team in John Huston’s adventure, which also stars the late Christopher Plummer as the writer Rudyard Kipling.

Passengers

(2016) 12 ◆ 9PM, RTé2 ★★★

Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt (above) star in the sci-fi adventure as passengers on a space ship who fall in love when they wake up 90 years too early. However, a secret jeopardises their happiness.

MONDAY

The Lover: A Deadly Affair

(2017) 12

◆ 2.15PM, CH5 ★★

Piecing her life back together after the death of her son, Tess (Jamie Luner) has a passionate affair with a handsome young soldier (Brent Antonello). Unfortunately for Tess, this brief entanglement goes from flattering to dangerous almost overnight.

The Matrix

(1999) 15 ◆ 9PM, ITV4 ★★★★

First in a trilogy that introduced new levels of exhilarating visual effects. Keanu Reeves (above, with Joe Pantoliano, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss) is the possible chosen one, a human who is shown that his life is a computer-generated illusion.

Now You See Me

(2013) 12 ◆

9PM, SKY ONE ★★★

Ocean’s Eleven meets the Magic Circle as a gang of illusionists carry out a bank heist in Paris – as a stage performance in Las Vegas. Isla Fisher and Jesse Eisenberg are in the gang; Mark Ruffalo is the FBI agent on their trail.

Atomic Blonde

(2017) 15 ◆ 9PM, FILM4 ★★★

Based on a graphic novel, this violent, over-the-top action movie stars Charlize Theron as MI6 agent Lorraine Broughton (above), a glam, bleachedblonde killing machine on a Cold War mission in 1980s Berlin.

Max Payne

(2008) 15 ◆

9PM, SONY MOVIES ★★★

Mark Wahlberg stars as an NYPD cop with a one-track mind in this action thriller, based on a video game. All he can think about is revenge – for the murders of his wife and daughter.

Public Enemies

(2009) 15 ◆ 9.30PM, TG4 ★★★★

Director Michael Mann’s crime drama stars Johnny Depp as John Dillinger, the 1930s bank robber who became America’s most-wanted criminal, even as his daring heists and prison breaks make him a folk hero. However, the newly formed FBI and agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) is out to bring him to justice.

TUESDAY

Collateral Damage

(2002) 15 ◆ 9PM, ITV4 ★★★

Dissatisfied with so-called justice after his wife and child are killed by terrorists, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s firefighter (above) sets out to find the man responsible. His mission takes him to Colombia, in the midst of civil war, where Arnie sets about fighting fire with fire.

Unsane

(2018) 15 ◆ 9PM, FILM4 ★★★ PREMIERE Steven Soderbergh shot this psychological thriller entirely on an iPhone 7 Plus. Claire Foy (left) stars as a troubled woman who is sectioned and, trapped inside a mental health facility, becomes convinced that her plight has been orchestrated by her stalker.

Dark River

(2017) 15

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11PM, FILM4 ★★★★

Director Clio Barnard’s rural drama has an intensity despite its sparseness. Ruth Wilson returns to her family farm after the death of her father, and clashes with her brother.

8 Mile

(2002) 15 ◆

11.15PM, ITV4 ★★★★

Eminem was full of surprises in this, his acting debut, a loosely biographical tale about Jimmy Smith Jr, a poor white rapper breaking into Detroit’s music scene. Brittany Murphy is the girl he gets close to, while Kim Basinger is brilliantly monstrous as his alcoholic mother.

American Honey

(2016) 15 ◆

12.45AM, FILM4 ★★★★

Sasha Lane is Star (above), the captivating lead in Andrea Arnold’s beautifully filmed punk road movie. With nothing to lose, she joins a door-to-door sales team of youngsters who travel together – and love, party, steal and fight together.

WEDNESDAY Murder, She Baked: A Deadly Recipe

(2016) PG ● 2.15PM, CH5 ★★ Hannah Swensen (Alison Sweeney) mixes running her popular bakery shop in sunny Eden Lake with a side order of sleuthing. In this mystery, Hannah investigates when the town sheriff is murdered, and her brother-in-law becomes the prime suspect.

The Great Wall

(2016) 12 ◆

9PM, E4 ★★★

A Chinese-American co-production, this fantasy has stunning visuals (see the costume worn by Eddie Peng, left), but bombed at the box office. Matt Damon and Pedro Pascal are Europeans who help to defend China’s Great Wall from monsters in the Song dynasty.

Watchmen

(2009) 18 ▲

9PM, 5STAR ★★★

Superheroes of the tougher, grubbier variety feature in this DC Comics tale.

Fallen on hard times, the heroes regroup when one of them is killed. Matthew Goode is Ozymandias. The comics were recently reimagined for a TV series, available as a box set on Sky/Now TV.

A Most Violent Year

(2014) 15 ◆

9PM, SONY MOVIES ★★★★

Set in New York in 1981, when violent crime spiked, this thriller stars Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain (below) as a married couple out to make their business a success, and struggling to keep it legit. With mobsters in the family, they walk a moral knife edge. 2012

(2009) 12 ◆

10.30PM, CH5 ★★★

Bombastic action disaster movie in which the end of mankind looms thanks to a perfect storm of natural catastrophes. Happily, the year in which the movie is set has been and gone – without incident. Dark Night (2016) 12

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12.55AM, CH4 ★★★

This drama explores American gun violence, using the 2012 shooting at a cinema screening of The Dark Knight Rises as its backdrop. It’s not a replay of that horrible event, but instead follows six characters in the lead-up to it.