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LORD JIM

(1965) PG

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10.05AM, SONY CLASSIC ★★★★

Joseph Conrad’s novel about the perception of cowardice, and a young man’s fall and rise after he is branded a deserter, is brought to the screen in fine style. Peter O’toole plays Jim, the merchant seaman searching for redemption in the Far East.

THE LOST CITY OF Z

(2016)

15 ◆ 9PM, BBC4 ★★★ Drama inspired by British explorer Percy Fawcett’s obsession with a lost city in the Amazon rainforest. Charlie Hunnam stars as Fawcett, who encounters as much savagery in civilisation as he does in the jungle he explores. With Robert Pattinson and Sienna Miller.

HUNTER KILLER

(2018) 15

◆ 9PM, FILM4 ★★★

This action thriller sank without trace in its efforts to channel the submarine thrills of The Hunt For Red October and others. Gerard Butler is the unorthodox American sub commander who, with a team of Navy Seals (led by Toby Stephens), rescues the Russian premiere after a coup d’etat.