MOVIE CHOICE

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: SALAZAR’S REVENGE (2017) 12

6.50PM, BBC1 ★★★

In the fifth final instalment in the swashbuckling franchise, young Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites) teams up with Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) to battle the undead Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem).

See The Big Movie, page 23.

DEADPOOL 2 (2018) 15

9PM, CH4 ★★★

Ryan Reynolds’s wisecracking superpowered mercenary is not a team player, but in this sequel, tragedy leads him to join the X-men. After rescuing a troubled young mutant, Deadpool, Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead must defeat Josh Brolin’s soldier from the future.

BEAUTIFUL BOY (2018) 15

10PM, BBC2 ★★★

Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet star in this grim but powerful biographical drama. Carell is the father whose son (Chalamet) is lost to addiction. Charting the long, hard and tumultuous road to recovery, it’s based on two memoirs, written by the father, David Sheff, and his son, Nic.