PICK OF DIGITAL & ON DEMAND TV AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER, DISNEY+
THIRTEEN years after the original, James Cameron’s Pocahontas-style action fantasy returned for a sequel that triumphed at the box office, and looked good doing it. The story moves the colonists vs natives action from the jungles to the water on the alien planet of Pandora, and to call the Oscarwinning visual effects that bring that to life stunning barely does them justice. There’s a top cast here too — Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington are joined by Kate Winslet this
BRITISH MOVIE Living, Amazon Prime Video
WHEN he discovers that he has a fatal illness, Mr Williams (Bill Nighy) abandons his civil service job in 1950s London and sets off on a journey of discovery, from singsongs in a seaside pub to tea and cakes with a female colleague (Aimee Lou Wood) as he tries to bring meaning to his life. This is a simply lovely movie, with the Oscar-nominated Nighy bringing Williams to sad, sweet life. time (playing Ronal, wife of Metkayina clan chief Tonowari, both pictured) — although that may be hard to notice through the sensory overload. Seeing it at home isn’t the same as
MYSTERY DRAMA Saint X, Disney+
BASED on a novel by Alexis Schaitkin, this time- and location-hopping mystery is the story of Emily (Alycia DebnamCarey), who is trying to discover what happened to her older sister Alison, who was raped and murdered on a holiday in the Caribbean two decades before. It can be hard to follow early on but the seeing it in the cinema, but this is still an impressive spectacle and represents the state of the art in movies — at least, until Cameron releases the sequel in 2024.
island looks very nice, and there’s fun to be had in playing detective about who’s hiding what.
HOLLYWOOD LEGEND Arnold, Netflix
FROM his beginnings as a nobody in rural Austria to his time as the world’s biggest movie star and one of the most important players in American politics, the life of Arnold Schwarzenegger plays like a film script (though with a lower bodycount than his movies). Along with archive footage and interviews with friends and rivals, this engrossing series features candid chat with the Terminator himself.
PAUL MERTON is joined in ROOM 101 (6.30PM, RADIO 4) by the plainspeaking presenter of Channel 4’s BAFTA nominated Packed Lunch, Steph McGovern (pictured), who’ll be hoping to persuade Paul to consign some of her pet hates to oblivion. The things that annoy her include political vox pops done in the street for radio and TV, and baffling signs on toilet doors: ‘Am I a snake or a butterfly? That question is too deep.’