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A woman and her young daughter get caught in the crossfire when whiskey, guns and the desire for revenge violently intersect in a rough-and-tumble Mississippi town. Thriller based on Michael Farris Smith’s novel of the same name, starring Garrett Hedlund, Willa Fitzgerald and Mel Gibson. (2023/18) ★★★ erin Brockovich monday, 8pm, sky cinema drama

A single mother desperate for work pleads her way into a routine administrative job at a law firm. It is not long before she stumbles

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across mislaid documents about a case brought against a corporation for poisoning the residents of a small town by contaminating their water supply. Realising something is amiss, she begins her own investigation. Fact-based drama, with Julia Roberts in an Oscar-winning role, alongside Albert Finney, Marg Helgenberger and Aaron Eckhart. (2000/15) ★★★★ shirley valenTine (Wednesday, 4.10pm, sky cinema BriTish icons) A Liverpudlian housewife is trapped in a humdrum existence and a dull marriage. Fed up, she decides to go on an unheard-of holiday by herself to a Greek island, where she starts to enjoy life again – especially when she is romanced and seduced by a smooth-talking fisherman.

Comedy, starring Pauline Collins and Tom Conti. (1989/15) ★★★★ mission: impossiBle – dead reckoning parT one (From Friday)

Ethan Hunt and fellow Impossible Missions Force operatives Benji Dunn and Luther Stickell race to acquire two halves of an interlocking 3D key that can regain control of a lethal artificial intelligence. Opportunistic thief Grace unwittingly picks a pocket and becomes entangled in the globe-trotting caper. Thriller, starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell and Simon Pegg. (2023/12) ★★★★