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THE BLACKENING (FROM SATURDAY)

Seven friends go away for the weekend and end up trapped in a cabin with a crazed killer who has a vendetta. He forces the terrified group to play a sinister board game called The Blackening, which punishes losing players. Will the friends’ street smarts and knowledge of horror movies help them stay alive? Comedy horror, with Grace Byers, Melvin Gregg and Jermaine Fowler. (2023/15) ★★★

OPPENHEIMER (SUNDAY, SKY CINEMA DRAMA, 8PM)

Check your planner for times Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed drama finally makes its way to Sky. General Leslie Groves Jr spearheads the Manhattan Project to research and develop a devastating weapon which is capable of ending World War II once and for all. Scientist J Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues subsequently risk destroying humanity to create a devastating atomic bomb.

Oscar-winning biopic, starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr and Emily Blunt. (2023/12) ★★★★★

MY FAIR LADY (THURSDAY, SKY CINEMA DRAMA, 10.45PM)

In 1910s London, Henry Higgins, a pompous and snobbish professor of phonetics, bets his old pal Colonel Pickering that he can teach humble cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle to speak like a duchess. Oscar-winning musical, starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison and Wilfrid Hyde-White. (1964/U) ★★★★

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 3 (FROM FRIDAY)

Following the death of her father Gus, Toula Portokalos honours his dying wish to take the family to his childhood village and reconnect with their Greek roots and find his childhood friends. Toula’s husband Ian joins the madcap expedition along with her brother Nick, Aunt Voula and the rest of the clan. Comedy, with Nia Vardalos and John Corbett. (2023/12) ★★★