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SUNDAY

Dante’s Peak

(1997) 12 ◆

3.50PM, CH5 Pierce Brosnan (above) stars in this ripper of a disaster movie about a volcano spewing poisonous ash into the air around Washington state. In Twister, at 5.55pm, Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt are in tornado country when perilous weather blows in.

The House With A Clock In Its Walls

(2018) 12 ◆ 4.20PM, ITV2 Family fantasy, with a splash of Harry Potter, following a young orphan (Owen Vaccaro) as he discovers his magical potential. Jack Black is the boy’s warlock uncle, with Cate Blanchett as his witchy neighbour. Emma (1996) PG ●

6PM, VIRGIN THREE It was rather overshadowed by the Gwyneth Paltrow version, which was released in the same year, but Kate Beckinsale does a creditable job as Jane Austen’s heroine, who fancies herself as a matchmaker. Unforgiven

(1992) 15 ◆

9PM, RTé2 Clint Eastwood directed this Oscar-winning Western masterpiece and also stars as a notorious gunslinger who comes out of retirement. The incredible supporting cast includes Gene Hackman (above) .

The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil

(2019) 15 ◆ 10PM, BBC4 HHH PREMIERE This crime thriller, set on the mean streets of Seoul, has all the thrilling action we have come to expect of genre films from Korea. It follows a mob boss and a down-trodden cop, who are the unlikely allies in the hunt for a ruthless serial killer.

Transcendence (2014) 12 ◆ 12.05AM,

CH4 HHH

This tangled sci-fi thriller stars Johnny Depp – overacting wildly – as a scientist in the field of artificial intelligence, who becomes one with a computer after his mortal demise. Cillian Murphy (above) and Rebecca Hall also star.

MONDAY

House Of Deadly Secrets (2018) PG The Matrix Reloaded

(2003) 15 ◆ Maudie (2016) 12 ◆ 9.30PM, TG4

● 2.20PM, CH5

Reassuringly predictable TV movie about a mother and daughter whose dream home turns into a nightmare. As haunted houses go, living here would bore you to death.

Belle (2013) 12

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6.50PM, FILM4 HHH

Film4 marks International Women’s Day with an evening of films where women take centre stage. This 18th-century period drama follows Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw, above), the illegitimate daughter of a Royal Navy officer, as she turns heads in English society.

9PM, ITV4

Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (CarrieAnne Moss) continue their fight against the machines in this mystical sci-fi action series. The cycle is completed, for now, in Revolutions on Friday (9pm, ITV4) – although a fourth film is slated for release this year.

Gone Girl (2014) 18

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9PM, SKY ONE HHHH

Steely adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel. Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck (above) star as the couple whose marriage starts to combust before our very eyes. The shift in perspective at the midpoint makes this a drama with an intriguing split personality.

The Bourne Ultimatum

(2007) 12 ◆ HHHHH

9.30PM, RTé2

Paul Greengrass directs the third instalment of the spy thriller series. Matt Damon returns as the assassin who regains his memories as a CIA director plans to get rid of him.

Sally Hawkins (right) is on typically excellent form in this biographical drama. She plays an arthritic Nova Scotia woman who takes up painting as a hobby, only for her art to start gaining popularity.

TUESDAY

Fun With Dick And Jane (2005) 12

◆ 7.05M, SONY MOVIES Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni (above) take the George Segal and Jane Fonda roles in this comedy remake, as a yuppie couple who turn to robbing banks after losing their jobs. Of course, you are rooting for them, especially with Alec Baldwin as the real villain.

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

(2014) 12 ◆ 9PM, FILM4

Andy Serkis, as the chimpanzees’ powerful leader, Caesar, takes centre stage in this sequel, which finds his apes building their own community. But their new utopia is soon under threat from unthinking humans, panicked by the threat of extinction.

Butterfly On A Wheel (2007) 15 ◆ 9PM, SONY MOVIES

Pierce Brosnan is the bad guy in this kidnap thriller – or is he? Maria Bello (left) and Gerard Butler are the parents whose daughter is abducted by Brosnan’s sociopath, who doesn’t want their money, but instead wants to ruin their lives.

Firefox (1982) 12

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10.55PM, ITV4

Typically 1980s Cold War thriller, with Clint Eastwood, who also directs, starring as former Vietnam War pilot Mitchell Gant, who is sent on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal a futuristic military jet fighter known as Firefox.

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)

15 ◆ 11.30PM, BBC2

From TV talk show star to regional radio presenter, Alan (Steve Coogan, above) finally gets to be a hero. Of sorts. North Norfolk Digital is the scene of a siege, which is both helped and hindered by our hapless host.

WEDNESDAY Killer Reputation (2019) PG ● 2.20PM, CH5

A PR agent works her magic on the reputation of a movie star who has been falsely accused of killing his wife. Sadly, in doing so, she draws the attention of the real murderer. Thriller, with Anna Hutchison.

The Color Of Money

(1986) 15 ◆ 9.05PM, TALKING PICTURES TV

Paul Newman reprises one of the roles that made him a star, playing ‘Fast’ Eddie Felson in a belated sequel to The Hustler – older and wiser, but facing new challenges in the pool hall. Joining him is Tom Cruise’s young pretender (above), a rather neat bit of casting. The Equalizer 2

(2018) 15 ◆

9.35PM, RTé ONE HHH Denzel Washington reprises his role as vigilante Robert McCall. This time he’s on a mission to avenge the death of a friend, but gets caught up in a fight for survival. The Mandalorian’s Pedro Pascal co-stars. Looper (2012) 15

◆ 10PM, SKY ONE The weird science in this time travel thriller is a bit baffling, but otherwise the film is slick, wellpaced and entertaining. Bruce Willis is a hitman whose interactions with his younger self (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, above) set in motion a crazy pattern of events. Fences

(2016) 12 ◆

1.15AM, CH4

Space Cowboys

(2000) PG ●

10PM, ITV4

Clint Eastwood leads a veteran cast (James Garner, Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones) in this space western. An aged Soviet satellite needs to be steered to safety, but its systems are so old that no one understands them – except Frank (Eastwood) and his old team. This passionate drama, adapted from August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Wilson himself, charts family tensions in 1950s Pittsburgh, and features forceful and emotive performances from Viola Davis and Denzel Washington.