MOVIE PLANNER

SUNDAY

Double Dynamite (1951) U

● 11.55AM, BBC2 HHH

Despite the title, there are three stars in this comedy. Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell and Groucho Marx (above) make for an odd mix in what is a rather odd film. Sinatra is the bank worker who turns to his wacky waiter friend (Marx) when he finds himself in a pickle. The Nun’s Story (1959) PG

● 1.10PM, RTé ONE HHHH

Audrey Hepburn gives one of her best performances in director Fred Zinnemann’s drama. She stars as a young woman who enters a convent, but struggles with the regimented life of a nun.

Junior (1994) PG ● 1.45PM, UTV HHH

Twins stars Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger reunite for a comedy that must have been an easy pitch – ‘Arnie gets pregnant’. What follows is a parade of broad gags that write themselves, with Emma Thompson (above) as the shocked doctor.

Evan Almighty

(2007) PG ●

9.30PM, RTé2 HH The sequel to the Jim Carrey comedy Bruce Almighty stars Steve Carell (left) as Evan Baxter, a politician recruited by God (Morgan Freeman) to build a new Ark. But will anyone else believe his warnings?

Amundsen (2019) 12 ◆

11.30PM, BBC2 HHH

Biographical drama about the explorer Roald Amundsen, who quit his medical studies for a life at sea. The leader of the first expedition to arrive at the South Pole, he dreamed of reaching the North Pole, too, with his brother, Leon, as his great supporter and financier.

MONDAY

My Mother’s Killer Boyfriend (2019) 12 ◆ 2.20PM, CH5 HH

Single mum Nicole takes tentative first steps back into the dating pool and is swept off her feet by a charismatic professor. But is he really the tragic widower he claims to be?

Viceroy’s House

(2017) 12 ◆

8PM, BBC4 HHHH

Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson star in this historical drama from Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham). In 1947, in the final days of the British Raj, Lord Mountbatten (Bonneville) oversees India’s complicated transition to independence.

Drive (2011) 18

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9PM, GREAT! MOVIES HHHH

Nicolas Winding Refn’s arty LA-set thriller stars Ryan Gosling (above), alongside Carey Mulligan, as a movie stunt driver who takes on a few dirty jobs on the side. Gosling also teamed with Refn for oedipal nightmare Only God Forgives, with Kristin Scott Thomas, which follows at 11.05pm.

Wind River

(2017) 15 ◆

9.30PM, TG4 HHHH

Absorbing thriller, starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as a veteran hunter and an FBI agent. They join forces to investigate the murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation.

The Magnificent Seven (2016) 12

◆ 10PM, CH5 HHH Denzel Washington heads up a posse of vigilantes – among them Ethan Hawke (right), Chris Pratt and Vincent D’Onofrio – in Antoine Fuqua’s action-led update of John Sturges’s classic 1960 western.

Girl (2018) 15 ◆

2.40AM, CH4 HHH

PREMIERE Belgian drama about an aspiring ballet dancer who, at the age of 15, has begun transitioning from male to female. The rigours of her training, combined with the challenges of her gender dysphoria and reassignment treatment, take their toll.

TUESDAY

The Hunters (1958) PG ●

3.50PM, TALKING PICTURES TV HHH Robert Mitchum (above) stars as a US Air Force ace charged with calming Robert Wagner’s upstart, but getting distracted by another colleague’s wife. It’s not Mitchum at his best, but the flight scenes are impressive and the direction, by Dick Powell, is solid.

Thunderbirds Are Go

(1966) U ● 4.45PM, FILM4 HHH

First of two movie spin-offs of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s popular 1960s TV series. Scott Tracy and the rest of the International Rescue team are called on to stop a mission to Mars being sabotaged by the evil Hood.

London Has Fallen (2016) 15

◆ 10PM, CH5 HHH

In this sequel, lots of London landmarks are blown to smithereens, and only the Americans can save the day. Gerard Butler (above) is back as the security agent protecting Aaron Eckhart’s US President from the same fate as the British PM.

Cocoon (2020) 15 ◆

2AM, CH4 HHH

PREMIERE This German coming-of-age drama follows two sisters who are left to their own devices by their alcoholic mother. Nora (Lena Urzendowsky) basks in the glory of her more confident elder sister (Lena Klenke), until she has her own awakening.

Killing Season (2013) 15 ◆

3.10AM, CH5

HHH Robert De Niro (right) and John Travolta star in this revenge thriller as men, both veterans of the war in Bosnia (on opposing sides), who struggle to bury the hatchet on a hunting trip in the Appalachians.

WEDNESDAY

Obsession, Lust, Murder (2017) 15 ◆ 2.20PM, CH5 HH

Set in America, this thriller follows a woman whose hunky new high-school soccer coach boyfriend has a deranged admirer. Evanne Friedmann is the student who just won’t take no for an answer.

Luxor (2020) 12 ◆

8PM, SKY PREMIERE HHH

PREMIERE Powerful and restorative drama starring the excellent Andrea Riseborough as the British aid worker who returns to the ancient city of the title. There, she is haunted by her past and her present as she reconnects with a former lover (Karim Saleh).

Erin Brockovich

(2000) 15 ◆ 9.35PM, RTé ONE HHHHH Julia Roberts (right) gives an Oscarwinning performance in Steven Soderbergh’s drama as a single mum who took on a company suspected of contaminating a small town’s water supply.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

(1991) 15 ◆ 10PM, ITV4 HHHH

James Cameron’s slick sequel pits machine against machine as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s reformed cyborg assassin teams up with a young John Connor (Edward Furlong) to take on a newer, significantly more scary and advanced T-1000 model (Robert Patrick).

Carrie (2013) 15 ◆

11PM, 5STAR HHH

There’s a bloody price to pay for bullying the weird kid at school in this fourth film inspired by the 1974 Stephen King novel. Chloe Grace Moretz is the girl (above) with a terrifying mother (Julianne Moore), whose hopes of fitting in at school come terribly undone.

Captive (2015) 12

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1.40AM, CH4 HHH

Fact-based crime drama that tries to reach beyond the restrictions of its hostage set-up, but ultimately struggles. David Oyelowo is the man who escapes custody during his trial, and takes single mum Ashley (Kate Mara) as his hostage.