Movie choice

10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU

(1999) 12 9PM, ITV2 ★★★ Witha Shakespeare-inspired script (it’s loosely based on The Taming Of The Shrew), this high-school comedy is full of promise, and mostly delivers.

THE MARTIAN

(2015) 12 9PM, ★★★★ Matt Damon (left) stars as the botanist stranded alone on Mars, using all his guile – and whatever else he has to hand, no matter how icky –tosurvive.it’sa gripping story, grounded in science fact as well as science fiction. Back on Earth, NASA holds a funeral for its lost astronaut, but not everyone gives up hope.

THE DARK TOWER

(2017) 12

9PM, GREAT! MOVIES ★★★

This adaptation of a fantasy book series by Stephen King, eagerly awaited by a loyal fanbase, was an epic failure.

Idris Elba stars as the last Gunslinger, joined by a young sidekick (Tom

Taylor, right, with Elba) on a confusingly important quest. Matthew Mcconaughey is his nemesis, the Man in Black.

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT

(2019) 12

10.40PM, BBC1 ★★★★

Directed by Bend It Like Beckham’s Gurinder Chadha, this 1980s-set jukebox musical follows Javed (Viveik Kalra), a British-pakistani teenager whose obsession with Bruce Springsteen powers a feel-good coming-of-age story.

MEAN GIRLS

(2004) 12

12.10AM, CH4 ★★★★

A viciously good high-school comedy written by Tina Fey (and based partly on a book about school cliques as well as her own experiences), who also appears as a teacher. Lindsay Lohan is the girl getting sucked into a storm within her new school’s cliques. Yes, it’s a teen comedy, but this has the sort of razorsharp wit that grown-ups love, too.