FILMS OF THE WEEK

THE BIG MOVIE

ISLE OF DOGS (2018) PG ● Sunday, 6.05pm, Ch4 ★★★★ From the mind of Wes Anderson, who directed such offbeat films as The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom, this comedy – like his 2009 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox – is a stopmotion animated tale starring talking animals. In a future Japan, man’s four-legged friends have been exiled to an island of rubbish. To this isle of dogs flies a little boy called Atari, in a stolen plane, to rescue his beloved guard dog, Spots. The film paints a grim – as dystopias often are – picture of a landscape teeming with detritus that even muck-loving dogs struggle to thrive in. But amid the filth, the matted fur, the political satire and deadpan humour, there’s the simple, heart-warming story of a resourceful boy who loves his dog.

CLASSIC FILM CHOICE

SUSPICION (1941) PG ● Sunday, 3.40pm, BBC2 ★★★★ This was the first of Cary Grant’s four films with Alfred Hitchcock – followed by Notorious, To Catch A Thief and North By Northwest – all fine showcases for Grant’s distinctive star quality. He was an actor who could seduce and be seduced, by both women and danger, and was also adept at comedy (see Bringing Up Baby,

The Bishop’s Wife and Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House, showing at 1pm, BBC2, Monday to Wednesday). But it was with Hitchcock that Grant’s high-beam charm could also reflect an inner darkness – nowhere more so than in Suspicion. His Johnnie Aysgarth (above) is an all-out cad, a gambler and a liar who marries Joan Fontaine’s heiress. For all his faults, she is as smitten with Johnnie as audiences would be with Grant for decades to come.