TV FILMS OF THE WEEK
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Sunday, Sony Movies, 3.50pm
Love transcends time, space and black holes in this wonderful film about the relationship between physicist Stephen Hawking and his first wife, Jane Wilde. Hawking’s death two years ago adds a fresh poignancy to moving proceedings.
THE LADYKILLERS
Monday, Film 4, 4.55pm
The best and darkest of the Ealing comedies, with Alec Guinness as the leader of a criminal gang planning a bank robbery who attempt to pass themselves off as musicians so as not to arouse the suspicions of their trusting landlady. But they soon realise the old lady will have to go...
HOT FUZZ
Tuesday, ITV4, 10.05pm
This was Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s daft follow-up after three years to zombie flick Shaun Of The Dead. Pegg plays Nick Angel, an over-conscientious police constable dispatched to the West Country by his Metropolitan Police bosses. Nothing ever happens there, they tell him. Wrong...
CARLITO’S WAY
Wednesday, ITV4, 10.30pm
The ex-con who attempts to go straight but can’t quite escape his past is one of the great staples of the gangster genre. In this long but stylish Brian De Palma-directed picture set in New York, Al Pacino is the Puerto Rican ex-con who is determined to give-up his drugdealing ways.
HIDDEN FIGURES
Thursday, Film 4, 9pm
At the height of the space race, Nasa’s vital teams of mathematicians were divided by gender and colour. Until Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) became the first woman to join the main space group at Langley, and the first person of colour. Uplifting stuff.
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
Friday, Sony Movies, 6.20pm
Anthony Hopkins plays Mr Stevens, a butler so committed that he ignores his father’s death and his employer’s growing interest in fascism. But can he ignore the attractive housekeeper (Emma Thompson)? An immaculate Merchant-Ivory adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker-winning novel.
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN
Friday, 5Star, 9pm
Only Richard Gere could get away with wearing a white navy uniform while riding a motorbike. Here he plays Zack Mayo, battling his way through navy officer candidate school with the help of girlfriend Paula (Debra Winger, left with Gere).