THURSDAY

The Cassandra Crossing (1976) PG

● 12.45PM, FILM4 ★★★

Disaster movies of the 1970s don’t get much more enjoyably ludicrous than this tale about a train carrying a deadly virus. A few carriage-loads of big names – including Sophia Loren (above) and Burt Lancaster – are aboard.

Walk The Proud Land (1956) U

● 2.05PM, PARAMOUNT ★★★

Audie Murphy – a hero in real life (in the Second World War) and on screen (To Hell And Back and more) – plays John Clum, the man who negotiated peace with the Apache.

Killer Family: A Nightmare Nanny (2020) 12 ◆ 2.20PM, CH5 ★★

After a relationship goes bad, Taylor (Brytnee Ratledge) takes a job as a nanny for a well-to-do family. The family appear perfect on the outside, but dark secrets lurk.

To End All Wars

(2001) 18 s

9PM, SONY MOVIES ★★★

Robert Carlyle and Kiefer Sutherland (above) star in this war film, set in a Japanese PoW camp whose inmates build the infamous Burma Railway during the Second World War.

Passenger 57

(1992) 15 ◆

11.35PM, ITV4 ★★★

Solid mid-air action movie starring Wesley Snipes as the retired Secret Service agent whose particular set of skills come in handy when he boards a plane that is hijacked by terrorists. It’s a good role for Snipes, who makes his one-man heroics look effortless.

The Rewrite

(2014) 12 ◆

2.45AM, CH4 ★★★

Marisa Tomei and Hugh Grant team up for this campus romcom as student and teacher finding a connection. Grant is the washed-up Hollywood screenwriter forced to take a teaching job and behaving badly; Tomei’s single mum sees past his bluster to his gooey inside.