Film choice

Home Alone (1990)

CHANNEL 4, 4.30PM ★★★★

With this hilarious and touching comedy, John Hughes’s most successful screenplay, Macaulay Culkin became a household name. He plays a precocious eight-year-old, accidentally left home alone in snowy Chicago when his family fly to Paris for Christmas. At first, he relishes eating pizza in bed and playing loud music, but soon finds himself repelling bungling burglars (Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci) with booby traps.

Ghostbusters (1984)

COMEDY CENTRAL, 6.55PM ★★★★

Parapsychologists Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis start a ghost-catching business just at the right time, as New York deals with a huge increase in paranormal activity. In Ivan Reitman’s enduringly likeable comedy, it soon becomes clear that they’re dealing with a supernatural gateway through which a powerful demon is about to appear – in a rather surprising form. Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis also star.

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

CHANNEL 5, 9.00PM ★★★

Imagine a cross between Groundhog Day and D-Day. In a futuristic war between humans and aliens, Tom Cruise plays a combat-shy major airlifted in for a catastrophic beach landing; he dies, and each time he does, the day resets, giving him the chance to learn from his mistakes. Doug Liman’s effects-laden thriller thrives on this premise for as long as it can, but starts to feel a bit sketchy when the time-loop comes undone.