TV FILMS of the week
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WIND RIVER
Tonight, Channel 4, 11.10pm
Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) works as a tracker for the US Fish and Wildlife Service on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.
During one sortie into the wilderness, Cory stumbles upon the frozen body of 18-year-old Natalie Hanson (Kelsey Chow). She has been sexually assaulted and rookie FBI agent Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen, pictured with Renner) arrives soon after from the Las Vegas office to take charge of the investigation. The lawmakers join forces with tribal police chief Ben (Graham Greene) to dole out justice on behalf of the victim’s grief-stricken father (Gil Birmingham).
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THUNDER ROAD
Tomorrow, Film4, 10.50pm
Jim Cummings, left, directs, writes and stars in this quirky comedy drama. Police officer Jim Arnaud (Cummings) has a breakdown when his mother dies. An unconventional eulogy goes viral, forcing Jim’s captain to recommend that he takes time off. Instead, Jim throws himself into his work. Jim’s wife files for divorce, but he begins to lose sight of the people and things that matter.
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THE SHALLOWS Tuesday, E4, 9pm
Nancy (Blake Lively, left) has dropped out of medical school following the death of her mother. She heads to the same beach in Mexico where her pregnant mum surfed before she was born.
Nancy strays close to the carcass of a whale which has been attacked by a shark. The shark then attacks her. The Shallows thrashes about in the wake of Jaws with surprising success.
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GET OUT
Wednesday, Film4, 9pm
Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, left) is nervous about a road trip to meet the parents of his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams). When he arrives at her parents’ pristine community, he is warmly welcomed by Dean Armitage (Bradley Whitford) and his psychiatrist wife, Missy (Catherine Keener). But something about the neighbourhood feels out of kilter. A razor-sharp satire.
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SILENCE
Thursday, BBC4, 10.05pm
Father Valignano (Ciaran Hinds) receives a letter, which suggests Father Ferreira (Liam Neeson) has denounced God. Priests Sebastiao (Andrew Garfield, left) and Francisco (Adam Driver), persuade Fr Valignano to allow them to seek out their mentor and disprove the rumours. Martin Scorsese’s passion project is a sprawling sermon on faith and the endurance of the human spirit.
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CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Friday, BBC1, 10.35pm
In his heroic guise as Captain America, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) leads a daring rescue mission at sea, flanked by Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson, left). Soon after, SHIELD director Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) shows Rogers the state-of-the-art heli-carriers which will extinguish threats to global peace. The Russo brothers’ sequel is a bombastic extravaganza.
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ROBIN HOOD PRINCE OF THIEVES Saturday, BBC1, 6.20pm
Kevin Costner (left) stars as the eponymous hero who returns from the Crusades to find his father murdered and his family’s lands claimed by the evil Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman). Robin teams up with a band of thieves living in the local forest and plots to overthrow the sheriff, with a little help from romantic interest Maid Marian (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio).