Film choice

The Time Traveler’s Wife 6.50pm Film 4

(Robert Schwentke, 2008) A woman (Rachel McAdams) loves a man (Eric Bana), even though she’s always known he’ll keep on disappearing into the future and the past. It’s a neat idea for a film about how love can sometimes feel like fate, but the narrative is somewhat all over the place.

The Adjustment Bureau 9pm Film4

(George Nolfi, 2011) Matt Damon plays a politician who stumbles

upon a shadowy cabal armed with mind probes. Such things happen often in the stories of Philip K Dick – but whereas most movies adapted from the sci-fi author’s work alight on its dystopian qualities, this one uses it as the springboard for a romantic fantasy.

Hummingbird

11pm Channel 5

(Steven Knight, 2013) Jason Statham plays a soldier who becomes a sort of Robin Hood-gangster figure, dispensing rough justice on the streets of London after befriending a sexy traumatised nun. It’s hard to tell whether or not this film has a sense of its own ridiculousness, but it delivers the goods.

Source Code 11.05pm Film4

(Duncan Jones, 2011) In this high-concept thriller, some experimental technology allows pilot Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal, left, with Michelle Monaghan) to repeatedly relive the final minutes in the life of a passenger on a train on which a bomb has been planted. It gets confusing, but the film’s emotional notes still sound true.