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SATURDAY THE FLINTSTONES (1994) U

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3.20PM, ITV ★★★

It was a tall order to don Fred’s animal skins

in this live-action spin-off of the hit TV show, but John Goodman gives it a good shot – as does Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma. Goodman did not return for 2000’s lesser prequel, which starred British actor Mark Addy.

KNOCKED UP (2007) 15

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9PM, ITV2 ★★★★

Comedy starring Katherine Heigl (below left, with Leslie Mann) and Seth Rogen as

the opposites briefly attracting – and finding they’ve made a baby. It’s when they decide to make a go of things that trouble begins.

WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005) 12 ◆

10.10PM, CH4 ★★★★

Steven Spielberg’s wallet-popping version of H.G. Wells’s famous tale of alien invasion. Tom Cruise is the dad bonding with his estranged son and daughter, providing the human touch to a story that is packed with panic, peril and impressive special effects.

FIRST LOVE (2019) 15 ◆

11.15PM, FILM4 ★★★★

PREMIERE Japanese director Takashi Miike has an impressive CV – he’s worked on more than 100 films, videos and TV series. This frantic, violent yakuza thriller follows a young boxer who is told he doesn’t have long to live,

and decides to make his final moments count.

THE DEER HUNTER (1978) 18 ▲ 12.05AM, BBC1 ★★★★★

One of the most celebrated films of the 1970s, director Michael Cimino’s masterpiece pivots around its three central characters’ experiences before, during and after military service in the Vietnam War. Robert De Niro (above, with Meryl Streep) is one of them.

ANNA

(2019) 15 ◆ 12.25AM, CH4 ★★★

A female assassin action thriller with a plot not dissimilar to Black Widow, Red Sparrow and the rest. Sasha Luss stars as a woman trapped in an abusive home, who is recruited by Luke Evans’s KGB agent to become a killer.

SUNDAY A VIEW TO A KILL (1985) PG

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2.50PM, ITV ★★★

In Roger Moore’s final 007 outing, the incomparable Grace Jones makes for a memorable ‘bad’ Bond girl. Christopher Walken (above, with Jones) is the villain plotting a destructive computing revolution.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (2020) PG

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4.30PM, CH4 ★★★

PREMIERE See The Big Movie (right).

A VERY YORKSHIRE CHRISTMAS

(2019) PG ● 4.30PM, CH5 ★★★

PREMIERE Festive romance in which an opera singer (Rachel Shenton) is stranded in England, and stays at a B&B with a handsome owner (Mark Killeen). With Michele Dotrice.

THE WIFE RAMPAGE (2018) 12

◆ 6.55PM, ITV2 ★★★ Dwayne Johnson is a souped-up Dr Dolittle, a primatologist who teams up with albino gorilla George when

he transforms into a mega-gorilla (he’s white, left, so as not to be confused with King Kong). George can be pacified, but the other big animals? Not so much. An entertaining monster mash.

X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE

(2009) 12 ◆ 9PM, E4 ★★★

Hugh Jackman got another throw of the dice with 2017’s Logan, a far more successful headline outing for the mutton-chopped hero. This origin story was a bit of a flop.

(2017) 15 ◆

11.10PM, BBC2 ★★★

Powered by outstanding performances, this drama is subtle, but full of surprises. Glenn Close stars as Joan, the wife of a selfabsorbed author (Jonathan Pryce) who is not the man he would appear to be. Will Joan be content to remain on the sidelines?

THE OLD MAN &THEGUN (2018) 12

◆ 12.30AM, CH4 ★★★

A fitting swan song for Robert Redford, who announced his retirement from acting with this true-crime drama. He stars as gentleman thief Forrest Tucker (right), who, at 74, is on the run after escaping prison. With Sissy

Spacek and Casey Affleck.

MONDAY CRY OF THE CITY (1948) 12 ◆ 9PM, TALKING PICTURES TV

★★★★

A thrilling, no-nonsense film noir, of the kind emigre director Robert Siodmak specialised in – see 1946’s The Killers. Richard Conte and Victor Mature are the two men, on opposite sides of the law, who grew up together in the same Italian-american community.

MISS MARX (2020) 12

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10PM, SKY PREMIERE ★★★

PREMIERE Biographical drama charting the tragic life of Eleanor Marx (Romola Garai), the youngest daughter of Karl. In the UK to promote her father’s brand of socialism, she embarks on a romance with Edward Aveling (Patrick Kennedy, below, with Garai).

THE DEAD POOL (1988) 18

▲ 11.05PM, CH5 ★★★

The fifth and, wisely, final instalment in the Dirty Harry franchise, directed by star Clint Eastwood’s former stuntman, Buddy Van Horn. Eastwood goes through the motions as Harry Callahan in a rather lacklustre affair.

TOPSY-TURVY (1999) 12

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11.25PM, FILM4 ★★★★

Musical period drama charting the creative process of Gilbert and Sullivan in the run-up to the premiere of The Mikado. Jim Broadbent is W.S. Gilbert, Allan Corduner is Arthur Sullivan, while Dorothy Atkinson and Shirley Henderson (below) are among the players.

RUSH HOUR 2 (2001) 12

◆ 12.05AM, ITV4 ★★★

Fast-talking comic Chris Tucker is back to buddy up with martial arts master Jackie Chan in this sequel. The action shifts to a Triad-packed Hong Kong, where Chan, this time, has the slightly upper hand.

FARMING

(2018) 18 ▲

1.55AM, CH4 ★★★

PREMIERE In this drama, Damson Idris stars as a boy sent from Nigeria to England by his parents in the 1960s. They hope to improve his life chances, but, as a teen, he joins a violent skinhead gang.

TUESDAY TRACKER (2010) 12 ◆

6.55PM, GREAT! MOVIES ★★★

Ray Winstone and Temuera Morrison are the adversaries pitted against each other in this British-new Zealand period western. Morrison is the Maori wrongly accused of murder; Winstone is the Afrikaner soldier (above) and master tracker sent to hunt him down.

BACKTRACE (2018) 15

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9PM, SYFY ★★★

Over-the-top sci-fi crime thriller starring Matthew Modine as a criminal with amnesia, who has his memories chemically induced by a gang who are after his stolen cash. Sylvester Stallone co-stars as a cop out to stop all this high-tech, far-fetched craziness.

THE MUMMY 15 9PM, 5STAR

(2017)

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★★★

Tom Cruise goes on a Mission: Impossible with monsters. Sofia Boutella is Ahmanet, the back-from-thedead Egyptian princess who takes ashine to our Tom, with Annabelle Wallis (above) as an archaeologist who also gets caught up in the resurrection games.

FIVE FINGERS (1952) PG

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11.05PM, TALKING PICTURES TV ★★★★ Decent Second World War espionage thriller, inspired by a true story, starring James Mason as the Albanian-born spy in Turkey. Selling Allied documents to the Nazis, secured via his job as a valet to the British ambassador, he lives in fear of being caught or killed.

A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE 11.45PM, ITV4

(1971) 15 ◆ ★★★

A neglected spaghetti western from Sergio Leone, starring Rod Steiger as the Mexican outlaw who becomes an unlikely partner to James Coburn’s ex-irish Republican as revolution rumbles in the Mexican desert.

THE OTHER WOMAN (2014) 12

◆ 1.10AM, FILM4 ★★★ Frothy but enjoyable romantic revenge comedy about a trio of women – played by Cameron Diaz (right), Leslie Mann and Kate Upton – who

take revenge on the cheat (Nikolaj Costerwaldau) who has been wooing all three of them.