MOVIE CHOICE

Superman

(1978) PG

6.20PM, CH5 Barely a week goes by without the release of a new superhero movie, but before Richard Donner’s blockbuster set the standard 35 years ago, comicbook characters were merely the stuff of children’s Saturday serials. Christopher Reeve is the Man of Steel flying to Earth’s rescue.

Larry Crowne

(2011) 12

10.20PM, ITV Tom Hanks puts on his everyman hat once again as the mildmannered divorcé who loses his job at a superstore because he never went to college. Julia Roberts is the jaded, unhappily married community college tutor he gradually wins over in this half-baked romcom.

New Town Killers

(2008) 15

11.25PM, BBC1 Richard Jobson’s gritty Edinburghset thriller takes a prescient swipe at evil bankers. Dougray Scott and Alastair Mackenzie are financiers amusing themselves with a sadistic game; James Anthony Pearson is the penniless lad who agrees to be their quarry, unaware the odds are stacked against him.