TV FILMS OF THE WEEK

ROGUE ONE Sunday, ITV, 7.30pm

Rogue One answers a question that has been troubling Star Wars fans since the 1977 original. How did the Rebellion discover there was a fatal weakness at the heart of the Death Star? PHILOMENA Sunday, BBC1, 10.30pm

Steve Coogan and Judi Dench join forces to brilliant effect, as a newly unemployed political journalist reluctantly agrees to help an older woman look for the son she was forced to give up for adoption 50 years earlier. AMERICAN GRAFFITI Monday, Sony Movies Classic, 10.50pm

Directed by George Lucas, produced by Francis Ford Coppola and with a cast that includes Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard and Harrison Ford... it’s been dubbed ‘the film that launched a thousand careers’. It’s 1962 and two high-school buddies spend one last night cruising the strip before heading off to college. THE PARTY’S JUST BEGINNING Tuesday, Sky Cinema Premiere, 10pm

Karen Gillan has left her Doctor Who days way behind. So it’s great to see her returning to her Scottish roots in a film she directs, writes and stars in. It’s a little rough around the edges but brave, moving and quite funny too. HARRY BROWN Thursday, 5*, 11.05pm

Michael Caine is superb in this gritty, urban thriller as an ageing ex-marine trying to live a quiet, dignified life on an increasingly lawless South London estate. Then his wife dies in hospital and his best friend is murdered, and you know that someone has just reached breaking point. THE SHALLOWS Friday, Film 4, 10.50pm

One of the best shark movies of recent summers, with Blake Lively fabulously convincing as a surfer who travels to a remote beach only to discover it’s become a feeding ground for a hungry great white. SELMA Friday, BBC2, 11.20pm

Given the current climate, this couldn’t be more topical, recreating events leading up to the historic march in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in pursuit of equal voting rights for all black Americans.