THIS WEEK’S MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS

9:00pm..................TheSpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water ★★★ (’15, Children’s) Voices of Tom Kenny. Live action/ animated. Perpetual adversaries SpongeBob and Plankton join forces and come ashore to battle a pirate who has plans for the stolen Krabby Patties recipe. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . NICK 9:30 pm . . . . . Today We Live ★★ (’33, War) Joan Crawford. An English aristocrat follows her torpedo-boating brother, his buddy and a U.S. pilot in World War I. (cc) . . . . . . . .TCM 10:00 pm . . . . Bohemian Rhapsody ★★★ (’18, Biography) Rami Malek. Singer Freddie Mercury defies stereotypes and convention to become one of history’s most beloved entertainers. After leaving Queen to pursue a solo career, Mercury reunites with the band for one of the greatest performances in rock ’n’rollhistory.(cc)..................... FX 10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ★★★ (’71, Children’s) Gene Wilder. A poor boy and his grandfather win a tour through the marvelous factory of a wily confectioner. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC

FRIDAY

9:00 am . . . . . . . . . . . Santa Claus: The Movie ★★ (’85, Children’s) Dudley Moore. Joined in Progress. Santa and an elf foil a New York toy manufacturer’s scheme to get rich off Christmas.(cc)...................... AMC 9:45am ........................ TheFlame and the Arrow ★★★ (’50, Adventure) Burt Lancaster. An acrobatic rebel and his band of mountain men trick Hessian mercenaries inmedievalItaly.(cc)................. TCM 11:30 am. . . . . . . . . You’ve Got Mail ★★ (’98, Romance-Comedy) Tom Hanks. Professional rivalry threatens to thwart romance when anonymous e-mail pals meet each other. (cc).................................. BRV 11:30 am 2012 ★★ (’09, Action) John Cusack. Earth’s billions of inhabitants are unaware that the planet has an expiration date. With the warnings of an American scientist, world leaders begin secret preparations for the survival of select members of society. (cc)

SYFY

11:30 am Knights of the Round Table ★★ (’53, Adventure) Robert Taylor. Sir Gawain meets the Green Knight, Sir Percival seeks the Holy Grail, and King Arthur’s Guinevere loves Sir Lancelot.(cc)........................ TCM NOON The Greatest Showman ★★ (’17, Musical) Hugh Jackman. P.T. Barnum indulges his limitless imagination to create the Barnum & Bailey circus in the 1800s. Featuring musical numbers, exotic performers and daring feats, the mesmerizing spectacle takes the world by storm to become the greatest showonEarth.(cc).................... FX NOON . . . . 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 1:00 pm . . . . . . Men in Black ★★★ (’97, Action) Tommy Lee Jones. A veteran agent and a rookie protect mankind from dangerous extraterrestrials roaming the Earth. (cc)VH1

1:00 pm . Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July ★★ (’80, Children’s) Voices of Red Buttons. Animated. Santa must save the day when Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman encounter an evil wizard.(cc).......................... AMC 1:30pm................................... The Adventures of Robin Hood ★★★★

(’38, Adventure) Errol Flynn. The Sherwood Forest outlaw and his men save King Richard and Maid Marian from Prince John and Sir Guy.(cc)............................. TCM 2:00pm..............WalktheLine ★★★

(’05, Biography) Joaquin Phoenix. Johnny Cash forms an enduring bond with June Carter and struggles with drug addiction on the way to music stardom. (cc) . . . . . . .BRV 2:00pm.... GoodBoys ★★ (’19, Comedy) Jacob Tremblay. Hoping to learn how to kiss, 12-year-old Max decides to use his father’s drone to spy on the teenage girls next door. When Max loses the drone, he skips school with his two best friends and hatches a plan to get it back before his dad finds out. (cc)

FX

2:30 pm The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water ★★★ (’15, Children’s) Voices of Tom Kenny. Live action/animated. Perpetual adversaries SpongeBob and Plankton join forces and come ashore to battle a pirate who has plans for the stolen Krabby Patties recipe.(cc).......................... NICK 2:35pm TheNightmareBeforeChristmas ★★★★ (’93, Children’s) Voices of Danny Elfman. Animated. The Pumpkin King gives the yuletide season a touch of Halloween in an animated tale from the mind of Tim Burton.(cc)......................... FREE 3:00pm.... Kidnap ★★ (’17, Action) Halle Berry. A typical afternoon in the park turns into a nightmare for single mother Karla Dyson when kidnappers snatch her young son Frankie. With no cellphone and no time to wait for police, Dyson embarks on a highspeed car chase to save her beloved child. (cc).................................. BET 3:15pm........................... Quentin Durward ★★ (’55, Historical Drama) Robert Taylor. Sir Walter Scott’s Scottish Guard hero foils Louis XI and wins Countess Isabelle in 15th-century France. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . .TCM 3:30pm................................... Men in Black II ★★ (’02, Action) Tommy Lee Jones. Two interstellar agents try to stop an alien disguised as a lingerie model from destroying the world. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . VH1 3:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ★★★ (’71, Children’s) Gene Wilder. A poor boy and his grandfather win a tour through the marvelous factory of a wily confectioner. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMC 4:00pm.................TheNightBefore ★★ (’15, Comedy) Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As their annual reunion tradition comes to an end, three lifelong friends plan a night of debauchery and hilarity by searching for the Nutcracka Ball, the Holy Grail of Christmas partiesinNewYork.(cc)............... FX 4:10pm.... 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)

FREE

5:00 pm . . . . . . . . . You’ve Got Mail ★★ (’98, Romance-Comedy) Tom Hanks. Professional rivalry threatens to thwart romance when anonymous e-mail pals meet each other. (cc).................................. BRV 5:00pm..... Camelot ★★★ (’67, Musical) Richard Harris. King Arthur loses Guinevere to trusted Sir Lancelot in the colorful court ofCamelot.(cc)...................... TCM 5:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Twister ★★★ (’96, Action) Helen Hunt. Storm-chasers finalizing their divorce try to place equipment inside a tornado on the Oklahoma plains. (cc)SYFY

5:30pm................................... Sweet Home Alabama ★★ (’02, RomanceComedy) Reese Witherspoon. Separated from her Southern husband, an engaged

New York fashion designer confronts him aboutadivorce.(cc)................. USA 5:30pm..................... MeninBlack 3 ★★ (’12, Action) Will Smith. Agent J goes back in time and joins forces with Agent K’s younger self to save his partner, the agency and mankind’s future. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . VH1 6:00 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sex and the City ★★ (’08, Romance-Comedy) Sarah Jessica Parker. Carrie Bradshaw and her gal pals find new adventures and surprises while they enjoy companionship, cupcakes and Cosmopolitan in New York. (cc) . . . .E! 6:00pm................................. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas ★★ (’11, Comedy) John Cho. Six years after their last adventure, the infamous stoners reunite on Christmas Eve to find a replacement tree for the one Harold sent up in smoke. (cc) . FX 6:00 pm. . . . The Polar Express ★★★ (’04, Children’s) Voices of Tom Hanks. Animated. The conductor of a train to the North Pole guides a boy who questions the existence of SantaClaus.(cc)..................... AMC 6:40 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 7:00 pm The Longest Yard ★★ (’05, Comedy) Adam Sandler. At a Texas penitentiary, jailed NFL veterans train their fellow inmates for a football game against the guards. (cc)PARMT

7:00pm................................... Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ★★★ (’16, Science Fiction) Felicity Jones. Recruited by the Rebel Alliance, Jyn Erso joins forces with a spy and other resistance fighters to steal the Empire’s plans for the most powerful weapon in the galaxy, the Death Star. (cc)TNT 7:30 pm The Family Stone ★★ (’05, RomanceComedy) Dermot Mulroney. Everett brings Meredith to meet his bohemian family at Christmas. While trying to win the approval of her boyfriend’s parents and the rest of his family, she only succeeds in highlighting her uptight personality, making Everett doubt hisintentions.(cc)................... BRV 7:33 pm. . . . . San Andreas ★★ (’15, Action) Dwayne Johnson. When the San Andreas fault triggers a magnitude 9 earthquake, a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot must navigate the destruction from Los Angeles to San Francisco to bring his estranged wife and daughter to safety. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . TBS 8:00pm................................... Office Christmas Party ★★ (’16, Comedy) Jason Bateman. Hoping to close a sale and save their jobs, two co-workers must rally their colleagues to throw an epic Christmas party.(cc)............................. FX 8:00pm........................Salt ★★★

(’10, Action) Angelina Jolie. After a defector accuses her of spying for the Russians, a CIA officer goes on the run and tries to come up with a way to establish her innocence. (cc)

SYFY

8:00 pm. . . . . . . . The Blind Side ★★★ (’09, Drama) Sandra Bullock. A well-to-do white family takes in a homeless black teen and helps him realize his potential on and off the footballfield.(cc).................... USA 8:00pm..................... Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ★★★ (’04, Comedy) Will Ferrell. Premiere. A 1970s San Diego newscaster feels threatened by the arrival of an ambitious woman looking to climb the ranks of journalism. (cc). . . . VH1 8:00pm................ ArthurChristmas ★★★ (’11, Children’s) Voices of James McAvoy. Animated. Santa’s youngest son sets out on an urgent mission to deliver a present to a forgotten child before Christmas morning dawns.(cc).......................... DISN 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.........................WestSide Story ★★★★ (’61, Musical) Natalie Wood. Rival New York City gangs affect the love of a young man and woman from each side. (cc)

TCM 9:00pm...............................Sex and the City 2 ★★ (’10, Romance-Comedy) Sarah Jessica Parker. Now married to Big, Carrie faces temptation when she unexpectedly runs into Aidan while on vacation with thegalsinAbuDhabi.(cc).............. E! 9:20 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 10:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . The Family Stone ★★

(’05, Romance-Comedy) Dermot Mulroney. Everett brings Meredith to meet his bohemian family at Christmas. While trying to win the approval of her boyfriend’s parents and the rest of his family, she only succeeds in highlighting her uptight personality, making Everett doubt his intentions. (cc) . . . . .BRV 10:00pm ............... TommyBoy ★★

(’95, Comedy) Chris Farley. A ne’er-do-well auto-parts heir must stop his father’s widow from selling the business. (cc) . . . . . PARMT 10:00pm .................................

Get Hard ★★ (’15, Comedy) Will Ferrell. The prison-bound manager of a hedge fund asks a black businessman — who has never been to jail — to prepare him for life behind bars. (cc).................................. TBS 10:00 pm . . . . . Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues ★★★ (’13, Comedy) Will Ferrell. Premiere. Ron Burgundy tries to stay classy when he and his team take New York and the nation’s first 24-hour global cable news network by storm. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VH1 10:00 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

SATURDAY

9:35am .................TheStar ★★ (’17, Children’s) Voices of Steven Yeun. Animated. A brave donkey named Bo and his lovable animal friends embark on a hilarious and heartfelt journey to become the accidental heroes of the greatest story ever told — the firstChristmas.(cc).................. FREE 10:08am............... TorchyPlaysWith Dynamite ★★ (’39, Crime Drama) Jane Wyman. Newswoman Torchy Blane goes to jail while her boyfriend plays a mobster in order to capture a wanted bank robber. (cc)

TCM

10:30 am . . . . . . . . . . Trainwreck ★★★ (’15, Romance-Comedy) Amy Schumer. Premiere. A promiscuous magazine writer considers monogamy for the first time when she starts to fall in love with the charming sports doctor she’s profiling. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BRV 10:30am..................Charlieandthe Chocolate Factory ★★★ (’05, Children’s) Johnny Depp. A poor boy and four spoiled children win a tour through the incredible factory of an odd confectioner. (cc) . AMC 11:00am.........MeninBlack ★★★ (’97, Action) Tommy Lee Jones. A veteran agent and a rookie protect mankind from dangerous extraterrestrials roaming the Earth. (cc)

PARMT

11:23 am . . . . . . . . . . . Solo: A Star Wars Story ★★ (’18, Science Fiction) Alden Ehrenreich. Young Han Solo and his gang of smugglers devise a daring plan to steal coaxium from the planet Kessel. In need of a fast ship, Solo meets Lando Calrissian, the suave owner of the perfect vessel for the dangerous mission — the Millennium Falcon. (cc) . . . . . . . . TNT 11:30am..............Spider-Man2 ★★★

(’04, Action) Tobey Maguire. Tormented Peter Parker battles a sinister scientist who uses mechanical tentacles for destructive purposes.(cc).......................... E! 11:30 am The Boss Baby ★★ (’17, Children’s) Voices of Alec Baldwin. Animated. A wildly imaginative 7-year-old discovers that his new brother, Boss Baby, is actually a spy on a secret mission, and only he can help thwart a dastardly plot that involves an epic battle between puppies and babies. (cc) . . . . . FX 11:40 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas ★★ (’99, Children’s) Voices of Wayne Allwine. Animated. Mickey and his friends tell three stories including A Very Goofy Christmas and Mickey and Minnie’s Gift of the Magi. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE NOON..................................... The Da Vinci Code ★★ (’06, Mystery) Tom Hanks. A murder in the Louvre Museum and clues in paintings by Leonardo da Vinci lead to the discovery of a religious mystery that could rock the foundations of Christianity. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SYFY NOON...................... TheHeat ★★

(’13, Comedy) Sandra Bullock. An arrogant, methodical FBI agent must join forces with a foul-mouthed, erratic Boston detective to bring down a ruthless drug lord. (cc) .TRU NOON Pretty Woman ★★★ (’90, RomanceComedy) Richard Gere. A corporate raider pays a gorgeous hooker to be his escort for a business week in Beverly Hills. (cc). . USA NOON Arthur Christmas ★★★ (’11, Children’s) Voices of James McAvoy. Animated. Santa’s youngest son sets out on an urgent mission to deliver a present to a forgotten child before Christmas morning dawns. (cc)DISN NOON . . . . . . A Christmas Carol ★★★ (’38, Children’s) Reginald Owen. Dickens’ London miser Ebenezer Scrooge meets the ghosts of