THIS WEEK’S MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS

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The Magnificent Ambersons ★★★★ (’42, Drama) Joseph Cotten. Orson Welles’ tale of an eccentric Indiana family clinging to tradition during a time of rapid change. (cc)TCM 1:10pm .... HomeAlone ★★★ (’90, Children’s) Macaulay Culkin. Accidentally left by his Paris-bound family, an 8-year-old makes mincemeat of two burglars in the house. (cc)

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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 ★★ (’12, Romance) Kristen Stewart. Bella and Edward gather werewolves, vampires and other allies to help them protect their daughter from the Volturi. (cc) . . . . . . . . .E! 2:15 pm. . . . . . . . . . Dark Passage ★★★ (’47, Mystery) Humphrey Bogart. A San Francisco art student hides a fugitive recovering from underworld plastic surgery. (cc) . . . . . .TCM 2:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Dog’s Journey ★★ (’19, Children’s) Voice of Josh Gad. Bailey the dog lives on a Michigan farm with his beloved owner Ethan and CJ — Ethan’s young granddaughter. When CJ’s mother decides to take her away, Bailey gets reincarnated into a puppy and embarks on a lifelong quest to watch over the girl. (cc)FX 3:00 pm Life ★★ (’99, Comedy-Drama) Eddie Murphy. Wrongly convicted of murder, two men become close friends during decades in a Mississippi penitentiary. (cc) . . . . . BET 3:00pm...... TheFamilyMan ★★★ (’00, Romance-Comedy) Nicolas Cage. Premiere. A Wall Street playboy wakes to find himself married to the college sweetheart he left in order to pursue a career 13 years earlier. (cc)

AMC

3:05 pm . . . . . . . Die Hard With a Vengeance ★★★ (’95, Action) Bruce Willis. Suspended from the police force, John McClane enlists a Harlem shopkeeper to help stop a terrorist bomber.(cc)........................ SYFY 3:40 pm Home Alone 2: Lost in New York ★★

(’92, Children’s) Macaulay Culkin. Once again left behind by his family, the boy hero lands in Manhattan and battles two burglars he facedbefore.(cc)................... FREE 4:00 pm Twilight ★★ (’08, Romance) Kristen Stewart. A high-school student is caught up in a romance with a vampire, whose family has renounced the drinking of blood. (cc)

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4:00pm.............LifeoftheParty ★★

(’18, Comedy) Melissa McCarthy. Dumped by her husband, longtime housewife Deanna turns regret into reset by going back to college. Winding up at the same school as her daughter, Deanna plunges headlong into the campus experience — embracing the fun, the freedom and the frat boys. (cc) . . TNT 4:15pm.................Caged ★★★ (’50, Drama) Eleanor Parker. An innocent lands in a women’s prison with crude inmates and a big matron called Evelyn. (cc) . . . . . . . .TCM 5:00 pm Skyscraper ★★ (’18, Action) Dwayne Johnson. Former FBI agent Will Sawyer gets framed for a blazing fire in the world’s tallest building. Now a wanted man and on the run, he must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his family when they become trapped inside the inferno. (cc)

FX 6:00pm.....................BigMomma’s House ★★ (’00, Comedy) Martin Lawrence. To protect a woman and her son from a robber, a male FBI agent assumes the guise of a large grandmother. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BET 6:00pm................................... Live Free or Die Hard ★★★ (’07, Action) Bruce Willis. John McClane grapples with a villain who plans to shut down the United States by attacking the country’s vulnerable computer infrastructure. (cc). . . . . . . . SYFY 6:00pm.................... 50FirstDates ★★ (’04, Romance-Comedy) Adam Sandler. A veterinarian tries to make a woman who has short-term memory loss fall in love with him.(cc)............................. TNT 6:00pm.............Scrooged ★★★ (’88, Comedy) Bill Murray. A ruthless TV-network chief meets the ghosts of Christmases past, present and yet to come. (cc) . . . . . . . AMC 6:00 pm. . . . . . . Johnny Belinda ★★★ (’48, Drama) Jane Wyman. Scandal erupts when a woman who cannot hear or speak is accused of gunning down the bully who supposedly rapedher.(cc)....................... TCM 6:20 pm . . . . . . . . . . The Santa Clause ★★★

(’94, Children’s) Tim Allen. An adman takes over for the bearded, big-bellied fellow after a rooftop mishap on Christmas Eve. (cc)FREE

6:40 pm . . . . . . . . . . . The Twilight Saga: New Moon ★★ (’09, Romance) Kristen Stewart. After the abrupt departure of Edward, Bella develops a deep friendship with Jacob and is drawn into the world of werewolves. (cc)

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7:00pm.. StraightOuttaCompton ★★★

(’15, Biography) O’Shea Jackson Jr. In 1988, N.W.A revolutionizes music and pop culture with their brutally honest depiction of life in Southern Los Angeles. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 8:00 pm. . A Christmas Story ★★★★ (’83, Children’s) Peter Billingsley. In the 1940s, little Ralphie tries to convince his parents to get him a Red Ryder range-model BB gun for Christmas. Narrated by Jean Shepherd. (cc)

TNT

8:00 pm. . . . . . Four Christmases ★★ (’08, Romance-Comedy) Vince Vaughn. When their plans for a holiday getaway fall apart, a couple must spend Christmas Day trudging to a quartet of family get-togethers. (cc)AMC

8:00pm...................................

Too Late for Tears ★★ (’49, Crime Drama) Lizabeth Scott. A woman kills her husband and plots with a private eye after someone tosses a moneybag into her car. (cc) . .TCM 8:30 pm . . . . . . The Santa Clause 2 ★★ (’02, Children’s) Tim Allen. Scott Calvin’s world turns upside down when he’s dealt a double whammy of bad news: Not only has his son, Charlie, landed on this year’s naughty list, but Scott has to marry by Christmas Eve, or he will stop being Santa Claus forever. (cc)

FREE 9:00pm...........................Backto the Future ★★★ (’85, Comedy) Michael J. Fox. A teen takes a crackpot’s DeLorean time machine to 1955 and sees his parents in high school.(cc).......................... SYFY 9:39 pm . . . The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ★★

(’10, Romance) Kristen Stewart. Bella must choose between Edward and Jacob amid a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire’s quest for revenge. (cc) . . . . . . .E! 10:00pm StraightOuttaCompton ★★★

(’15, Biography) O’Shea Jackson Jr. In 1988, N.W.A revolutionizes music and pop culture with their brutally honest depiction of life in Southern Los Angeles. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 10:00pm ............................... A Christmas Carol ★★ (’99, Fantasy) Patrick Stewart. Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge receives visits from three Christmas spirits who show him his past, present and future. (cc) . TNT 10:00 pm . . . . . Superbad ★★★ (’07, Comedy) Jonah Hill. Separation anxiety poses a problem for two co-dependent high-school seniors who hope to score booze and babes ataparty.(cc)........................ TRU 10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . Fred Claus ★★ (’07, Comedy) Vince Vaughn. The yuletide season brings headaches for Santa Claus, who bails his ne’er-do-well brother Fred out of trouble and puts him to work in his factory. (cc)AMC 10:00pm ................................. Where the Sidewalk Ends ★★ (’50, Crime Drama) Dana Andrews. A police detective beats a suspect to death, then tries to pin it onamobboss.(cc) .................. TCM

TUESDAY

9:30 am Torpedo Run ★★ (’58, War) Glenn Ford. A Navy submarine commander and his buddy chase a Japanese aircraft carrier to blame for a tragedy. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM 10:00 am Spectre ★★★ (’15, Action) Daniel Craig. As James Bond ventures toward the heart of the sinister organization SPECTRE, he discovers a chilling connection between himself and the enemy he seeks. (cc). . FX 10:30 am All I Want for Christmas ★★ (’91, Children’s) Ethan Randall. A boy and his little sister cook up a holiday scheme to get their divorced parents back together. (cc). AMC 11:00am... HomeAlone ★★★ (’90, Children’s) Macaulay Culkin. Accidentally left by his Paris-bound family, an 8-year-old makes mincemeat of two burglars in the house. (cc)

FREE

11:05 am. . . The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ★★

(’10, Romance) Kristen Stewart. Bella must choose between Edward and Jacob amid a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire’s quest for revenge. (cc) . . . . . . .E! 11:15 am . . . . . . . . . . . . Hell to Eternity ★★★

(’60, War) Jeffrey Hunter. A Marine raised by Japanese foster parents gets rowdy with his buddies and becomes a hero on Saipan. (cc)

TCM

12:30pm...................... TheFamily Man ★★★ (’00, Romance-Comedy) Nicolas Cage. A Wall Street playboy wakes to find himself married to the college sweetheart he left in order to pursue a career 13 years earlier.(cc).......................... AMC 1:00 pm Terminator Genisys ★★ (’15, Science Fiction) Arnold Schwarzenegger. Kyle Reese goes back to 1984 to save Sarah Connor and emerges in an alternate timeline in which Sarah has been raised as a warrior by a Terminatorguardian.(cc)................ FX 1:00pm.................Neighbors ★★★

(’14, Comedy) Seth Rogen. Parents with a baby move into a quiet neighborhood to start a new stage of life. However, they find out that the fraternity next door parties every day, making it impossible for them to have a peaceful moment. Inevitably, a battle begins.(cc).......................... TNT 1:30 pm Home Alone 2: Lost in New York ★★

(’92, Children’s) Macaulay Culkin. Once again left behind by his family, the boy hero lands in Manhattan and battles two burglars he facedbefore.(cc)................... FREE 1:30pm........................December

7th ★★ (’43, Documentary) Walter Huston. John Ford co-directed this account of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a film long-banned for potential damage to morale. (cc) .TCM 1:55 pm. . . . . . . . . The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 ★★ (’11, Romance) Kristen Stewart. A chain of events, set off by Edward and Bella’s marriage, honeymoon and birth of a child, yields a shocking development for Jacob.(cc)............................. E! 2:00pm.....................BigMomma’s House ★★ (’00, Comedy) Martin Lawrence. To protect a woman and her son from a robber, a male FBI agent assumes the guise of a large grandmother. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BET 3:00pm.....................TheWedding Ringer ★★ (’15, Comedy) Kevin Hart. A socially awkward groom begins an unexpected bromance with the guy he hired to pose as his best man at his upcoming nuptials. (cc)

MTV

3:00pm......................... AirForce ★★★ (’43, War) John Ridgely. A B-17 Flying Fortress crew reaches Pearl Harbor too late, then continues on to the Philippines. (cc)TCM

3:30pm.......................Stuber ★★

(’19, Comedy) Dave Bautista. After crashing his car, a cop who’s recovering from eye surgery recruits an Uber driver to help him catch a heroin dealer. The mismatched pair soon find themselves in for a wild day of stakeouts and shootouts as they encounter the city’s seedy side. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 3:30pm..............FredClaus ★★ (’07, Comedy) Vince Vaughn. The yuletide season brings headaches for Santa Claus, who bails his ne’er-do-well brother Fred out of trouble and puts him to work in his factory. (cc)AMC 4:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . Ender’s Game ★★ (’13, Science Fiction) Harrison Ford. A youth exhibits an unusual gift that gets him selected for advanced military training to lead Earth’s forces in an intense war against Formics, alien invaders that nearly destroyed the planet once before. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY 4:10pm ............JingleAlltheWay ★★

(’96, Children’s) Arnold Schwarzenegger. A crazed postman, a tough policeman and a shady Santa impede a workaholic seeking a coveted toy for his son. (cc) . . . . . . . . . FREE 4:30pm...................................

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 ★★ (’12, Romance) Kristen Stewart. Bella and Edward gather werewolves, vampires and other allies to help them protect their daughter from the Volturi. (cc) . . . . . . . . .E! 5:30 pm . . . . . . . Bumblebee ★★★ (’18, Action) Hailee Steinfeld. On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee the Autobot finds refuge in a junkyard in a small California beach town. When 17-year-old Charlie revives him, she quickly learns that this is no ordinary yellow Volkswagen.(cc)...................... FX 5:30 pm Monster-in-Law ★★ (’05, RomanceComedy) Jennifer Lopez. A woman fights back when her fiance’s shrewish mother tries to destroy their relationship. (cc)MTV 5:30 pm They Were Expendable ★★★ (’45, War) Robert Montgomery. Heroic PT boat captains fight Japanese ships in the World WarIIPhilippines.(cc)................ TCM 6:00 pm. . . . . . London Has Fallen ★★ (’16, Action) Gerard Butler. Secret Service agent Mike Banning springs into action to save captive U.S. President Benjamin Asher from the terrorists who attacked London. (cc)USA 6:00 pm. . . . . . Four Christmases ★★ (’08, Romance-Comedy) Vince Vaughn. When their plans for a holiday getaway fall apart, a couple must spend Christmas Day trudging to a quartet of family get-togethers. (cc)AMC 6:15 pm Disney’s A Christmas Carol ★★ (’09, Children’s) Voices of Jim Carrey. Animated. Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge must face uncomfortable truths when three Christmas spirits take him on a journey through his past, present and future. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE 6:30pm...........................Backto the Future ★★★ (’85, Comedy) Michael J. Fox. A teen takes a crackpot’s DeLorean time machine to 1955 and sees his parents in high school.(cc).......................... SYFY 7:00pm. Midway ★★ (’19, War) Ed Skrein. On June 4, 1942, the Japanese navy plans a strike against American ships in the Pacific. For the next three days, the U.S. Navy and a squad of brave fighter pilots engage the enemy in one of the most important and decisive battles of World War II. (cc)PARMT

8:00 pm Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ★★

(’18, Adventure) Chris Pratt. Owen and Claire return to the island of Isla Nublar to save the remaining dinosaurs from a volcano that’s about to erupt. They soon encounter terrifying new breeds of gigantic dinos while uncovering a conspiracy that threatens the entireplanet.(cc)..................... FX 8:00 pm. . . . . . Pearl Harbor ★★ (’01, War) Ben Affleck. Two pilots and lifelong friends fall for the same woman, but must put aside their differences when the Japanese attack their naval base on Dec. 7, 1941. (cc) . AMC 8:00 pm The Shop Around the Corner ★★★

(’40, Romance-Comedy) Margaret Sullavan. The more Budapest co-workers fight, the more they fall in love as secret pen pals. (cc)

TCM

8:20 pm . . Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas ★★ (’00, Children’s) Jim Carrey. A curmudgeon living atop Mount Crumpit sets out to quash the yuletide preparations of the Christmas-loving Whos of Whoville. Anthony Hopkins narrates. (cc) . . . . . FREE 9:00pm.......................Backtothe Future Part II ★★★ (’89, Comedy) Michael J. Fox. A young man and his inventor friend must take a DeLorean time machine to 2015. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY 10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . Saving Private Ryan ★★★★ (’98, War) Tom Hanks. A World War II captain and his squad risk all to locate and send home a soldier whose three brothers diedincombat.(cc)............... PARMT 10:00pm ...........................Cluny Brown ★★ (’46, Comedy) Charles Boyer. A debonair Czech refugee falls for a maid who does plumbing in pre-World War II London. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM

WEDNESDAY

9:00am.. Let’sBeCops ★★ (’14, Comedy) Jake Johnson. Premiere. Two buddies dress as police officers for a costume party, then must put their fake badges on the line after they become entangled with a real web of crooks and dirty detectives. (cc). . . . . MTV 9:00am................................... The Bucket List ★★ (’07, Comedy-Drama) Jack Nicholson. Two terminally ill men leave their hospital ward and set out to complete a list of things they want to do before they die.(cc)............................. AMC