The Sunday Post (Dundee)

The Joneses

- Made In Dagenham Surrogates Evan Almighty The Secrets In The Walls

Film4, 11.40pm

When a seemingly perfect family moves into a community, they instantly arouse the envy of all their neighbours. However, the newcomers have been purposely placed for that reason – they are a living exercise in product placement, designed to drive those around them into a frenzy of jealous consumptio­n. David Duchovny, Demi Moore and Johnny Depp’s new fiancee, Amber Heard, star in this fascinatin­g dark comedy.

BBC4, 9pm

Made In Dagenham is being made into a musical, opening in London’s West End in October and starring Gemma Arterton in the lead role. The film certainly gives it a groundswel­l of goodwill to tap into. From the director of Calendar Girls, it tells of a group of sewing machinists at an Essex car factory who went on strike in 1968 over pay, a dispute which ended with the introducti­on of the Equal Pay Act.

BBC1, 11.15pm (BBC Scotland, 12.15am)

Sci-fi action thriller set in the near future, where people live in isolation and interact with the outside world through surrogate robot doubles. When a murder threatens the tranquilli­ty, however, an FBI agent must venture into the real world to investigat­e. Bruce Willis stars in this disappoint­ing adaptation of the Robert Venditti comic book series.

ITV2, 8pm

Steve Carell could have told Russell Crowe it’s best not to muck around with the legend of Noah. Yet it wasn’t religious groups who had a problem with this very loose interpreta­tion of the Biblical tale but anyone who likes their comedies to have a laugh or two. God appears before a sceptical congressma­n to tell him to build an ark capable of withstandi­ng a mighty flood (of criticism as it turned out).

5USA, 10pm

Made-for-TV chiller about a woman and her two daughters who fear their new house is haunted. Researchin­g past owners, they discover that a young woman that lived there went missing in the 1950s. Jeri Ryan, who played Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who was Brenda Blethyn’s illegitima­te daughter in Secrets & Lies, star.

One Day

Film4, 9pm

Film4 premiere of the film adaptation of David Nicholls’ romantic bestseller which follows the relationsh­ip of two friends across two decades. Meeting for the first time on the day of their graduation in 1988, Dexter (Jim Sturgess) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) form a friendship that takes an often uneven path as they reunite every July 15, the anniversar­y of that first meeting.

The Raid

Film4, 11.20pm

An Indonesian action movie directed by a man from Wales is probably not a combinatio­n that will have you putting off your bedtime but, if you like your films to be adrenaline filled, Gareth Evans’ shoot ’em up is worth the lost sleep. An elite special forces team receive orders to put an end to a crime lord’s rule in a slum area of Jakarta. From the very start it’s clear this is going to be no easy task.

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