THIS WEEK’S MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS

join forces to take revenge on the suave cad who betrayed all of them. (cc)FREE 3:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Despicable Me 2 ★★★ (’13, Children’s) Voices of Steve Carell. Animated. Just as Gru settles into his new role as a suburban family man, the ultrasecret Anti-Villain League sends him on a mission to nab the perpetrator of a spectacular heist. (cc) . . . . . . NICK 3:45pm................ TheHeartIsa Lonely Hunter ★★★ (’68, Drama) Alan Arkin. John, a deaf and mute man, rents a bedroom in a small town to be closer to his friend, Spiros, who is also deaf. John attempts to strike up a friendship with Mick, the teenage daughter of his disabled landlord, and meets the town drunk.(cc)...................... TCM 4:00pm....................... Blade 2: Bloodhunt ★★ (’02, Horror) Wesley Snipes. Blade forms an alliance with a band of hardened enemies in order to battle powerful vampires. (cc) . . SYFY 5:00pm......................Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde ★★ (’03, Comedy) Reese Witherspoon. Fired from her firm, a young Boston lawyer heads to Washington, D.C., to fight for animalrights.(cc)................. E! 5:00pm...........Hancock ★★ (’08, Action) Will Smith. A scruffy superhero protects the citizens of Los Angeles but leaves horrendous collateral damage in the wake of every well-intentioned feat. (cc)............................. TNT 5:00 pm Despicable Me ★★★ (’10, Children’s) Voices of Steve Carell. Animated. As he tries to execute a fiendish plot to steal the moon, a supervillain meets his match in three little orphan girls who want to make him their dad. (cc) NICK 5:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . The Perfect Storm ★★★ (’00, Suspense) George Clooney. At sea in October 1991, the crewmen of the Andrea Gail encounter a storm with hurricane-strength winds and 100-foot waves.(cc)...................... AMC 5:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . Bad Boys for Life ★★ (’20, Action) Will Smith. Old-school, wisecracking cops Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett team up with a special new tactical squad to take down the vengeful head of a drug cartel. (cc). . . . . . . . . FX 6:00pm.............................. Wise Blood ★★★ (’79, Drama) Brad Dourif. Flannery O’Connor’s Hazel Motes becomes the Deep South evangelist of a church without Christ. (cc) . . . . . . . TCM 6:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . Blade: Trinity ★★ (’04, Horror) Wesley Snipes. Blade and a pair of vampire slayers battle Dracula, the newly resurrected ancestor of the undead.(cc)................... SYFY 7:00pm..............LegallyBlonde ★★ (’01, Comedy) Reese Witherspoon. A sorority queen enrolls in Harvard to prove to her former boyfriend that she has more than good looks. (cc) . . . . E! 7:00pm.......................Shrek Forever After ★★ (’10, Children’s) Voices of Mike Myers. Animated. After Rumpelstiltskin tricks him into making a pact, Shrek finds himself in an alternate version of Far Far Away, in which he and Fiona never met. (cc) . . . . . . . . . .PARMT 8:00 pm . Transformers: Age of Extinction ★★ (’14, Action) Mark Wahlberg.

As humanity picks up the pieces after an epic battle, a shadowy group emerges to gain control of history. Meanwhile, a powerful new menace sets its sights on Earth.(cc)....................... FX 8:00pm.............................. 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 8:00 pm Casino ★★★ (’95, Crime Drama) Robert De Niro. A New York bookie and his pal turn a Las Vegas casino into an empire, then one’s money-hungry wife helps bring it down. (cc) . . . . . . . . . AMC 8:00pm........................2001: A Space Odyssey ★★★★ (’68, Science Fiction) Keir Dullea. Supercomputer HAL 9000 guides astronauts on a trip to find the origins of humans. (cc) . . . . . . TCM 8:30pm...............TheEqualizer ★★ (’14, Action) Denzel Washington. A former commando comes out of retirement and puts his special skills to work to rescue a girl who is under the control of ruthless Russian mobsters. (cc) VH1 9:00pm............ MeanGirls ★★★ (’04, Comedy) Lindsay Lohan. Attending high school for the first time, a teenager becomes friends with three popular but manipulative students. (cc) . . . .PARMT 9:00 pm . . . . Enemy of the State ★★★ (’98, Suspense) Will Smith. A former

NSA operative aids the innocent victim of a politically motivated assassination cover-up.(cc).................. SYFY 9:15pm............... LegallyBlonde ★★ (’01, Comedy) Reese Witherspoon. A sorority queen enrolls in Harvard to prove to her former boyfriend that she has more than good looks. (cc) . . . . E! 10:00pm............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 high-speed car chase to save her beloved child. (cc) BET

FRIDAY

7:45 am . . . . . . . Manhattan Melodrama ★★★ (’34, Crime Drama) Clark Gable. A district attorney condemns his boyhood buddy, a racketeer whose crime saves his bid for governor. (cc) . . . . . . . . . TCM 8:30 am. . . . . . . Mission: Impossible — Fallout ★★★ (’18, Action) Tom Cruise. An arms dealer and a group of terrorists plan to use three plutonium cores for a simultaneous nuclear attack. When the weapons go missing, Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must race against time to prevent them from falling into the wronghands.(cc)................ FX 9:00am............ MalcolmX ★★★ (’92, Biography) Denzel Washington. Premiere. The civil-rights leader rises from criminal to crusader, undergoing a religious conversion while jailed. (cc)AMC 9:30 am . Indianapolis Speedway ★★

(’39, Action) Pat O’Brien. Auto-racing brothers become rivals for a girl and the checkeredflag................... TCM 10:04 am . . . . . . . . . . Conan the Barbarian ★★ (’11, Adventure) Jason Momoa. The Cimmerian warrior slashes his way across Hyboria on a mission that begins as a personal vendetta but turns into an epic battle against a supernatural evil. (cc)............................ SYFY 10:30am..................TheOther Woman ★★ (’14, Romance-Comedy) Cameron Diaz. A wife and two mistresses join forces to take revenge on the suave cad who betrayed all of them. (cc)FREE 11:00am.............................. The Philadelphia Story ★★★★ (’40, Romance-Comedy) Cary Grant. A snooty socialite fights with her ex-husband and flirts with a reporter. (cc) . . . . . . . . TCM 11:30 am . . Bloodshot ★★ (’20, Action) Vin Diesel. Killed in action, soldier Ray Garrison gets a new lease on life when the RST Corp. brings him back from the dead. But when the company decides to manipulate his mind and memories, Ray must embark on a mission to find out what’s real and what’s not. (cc) . . . . FX 12:30 pm Big Momma’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) . . . . . . . . . . VH1 12:33pm.............................. The Day the Earth Stood Still ★★ (’08, Science Fiction) Keanu Reeves. A woman and her stepson learn the chilling meaning behind the proclamation of an alien visitor that he is a friend to the Earth. (cc)............................ SYFY 1:00 pm . . Washington Story ★★ (’52, Drama) Van Johnson. A newswoman targets a politician for scandal but finds romance instead. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . . TCM 1:30pm................DraftDay ★★ (’14, Drama) Kevin Costner. On the day of the NFL Draft, the general manager of the Cleveland Browns must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice as he angles for the number-one pick. (cc) . . . . . . . AMC 2:00pm.............................. X-Men: Dark Phoenix ★★ (’19, Action) James McAvoy. During a rescue mission, Jean Grey is hit by a cosmic force that makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now unite to save her soul and battle aliens that want to utilize Grey’s mysterious newabilities.(cc)................. FX 2:30pm........... VivaLasVegas ★★ (’64, Musical) Elvis Presley. A swimming instructor detours a singing auto racer in town for the Grand Prix. (cc). . . TCM 2:58 pm The Chronicles of Riddick ★★ (’04, Science Fiction) Vin Diesel. On the run from mercenaries, a fugitive lands on a planet endangered by an invading ruler and his bloodthirsty army. (cc)SYFY 3:00 pm Bad Boys ★★ (’95, Action) Martin Lawrence. Undercover Miami detectives switch lives while investigating murders linked to stolen heroin. (cc) . . . . . . BRV 3:00 pm Despicable Me ★★★ (’10, Children’s) Voices of Steve Carell. Animated. As he tries to execute a fiendish plot to steal the moon, a supervillain meets his match in three little orphan girls who want to make him their dad. (cc) NICK 4:00pm........................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

4:00 pm Casino ★★★ (’95, Crime Drama) Robert De Niro. A New York bookie and his pal turn a Las Vegas casino into an empire, then one’s money-hungry wife helps bring it down. (cc) . . . . . . . . . AMC 4:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meet Me in St. Louis ★★★ (’44, Musical) Judy Garland. A St. Louis lawyer’s family stays in town for the 1904 World’s Fair. (cc). . . . . TCM 4:30 pm . Transformers: Age of Extinction ★★ (’14, Action) Mark Wahlberg. As humanity picks up the pieces after an epic battle, a shadowy group emerges to gain control of history. Meanwhile, a powerful new menace sets its sights on Earth.(cc)....................... FX 5:28 pm. . . . . Enemy of the State ★★★ (’98, Suspense) Will Smith. A former

NSA operative aids the innocent victim of a politically motivated assassination cover-up.(cc).................. SYFY 5:30 pm . . . . . . . . . Bad Boys II ★★ (’03, Action) Martin Lawrence. Two detectives uncover a conspiracy involving a drug kingpin while trying to stop the trafficking of Ecstasy in Miami. (cc) . . . . . . BRV 6:00pm.............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 high-speed car chase to save her beloved child. (cc) BET

6:00pm......................... San Francisco ★★★ (’36, Adventure) Clark Gable. A Barbary Coast gambler loves his new saloon singer, then loses her in the 1906 earthquake panic. (cc) . . TCM 7:00pm ............. TheWolfofWall Street ★★★ (’13, Biography) Leonardo DiCaprio. New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who founded brokerage firm

Stratton Oakmont while still in his early 20s, develops habits of wretched excess and corruption. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . .PARMT 7:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . 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 8:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . Jumanji: The Next Level ★★ (’19, Adventure) Dwayne Johnson. When Spencer goes back into the fantastical world of Jumanji, pals Martha, Fridge and Bethany re-enter the game to bring him home. But everything about Jumanji is about to change, as they soon discover more obstacles and more danger to overcome. (cc) . . . FX 8:00pm......................Justice League ★★ (’17, Action) Ben Affleck. Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Batman and his new ally Wonder Woman recruit Aquaman, Cyborg and the Flash to help them save the planet from a newly awakened enemy. (cc)TBS 8:00 pm . . . . . . Tombstone ★★★ (’93, Western) Kurt Russell. Doc Holliday joins Wyatt Earp and his brothers for an OK Corral showdown with the Clanton gang. (cc)............................. AMC 8:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hoosiers ★★★ (’86, Drama) Gene Hackman. A college basketball coach leaves the Navy in 1951 and becomes coach of an underdog Indiana high-school team. (cc) . . . TCM 8:30 pm . The Shawshank Redemption ★★★★ (’94, Drama) Tim Robbins. Two life sentences for a 1947 double murder land an innocent man in a corrupt Maine penitentiary.(cc)................ BRV

SATURDAY

6:00 am . . . The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone ★★★ (’61, Drama) Vivien Leigh. An aging actress, upset by suggestions that she is too old for her role in a play, travels to Rome, where she begins a steamy affair with a young Italian gigolo. (cc)............................. TCM 6:15 am . . . . . . Detroit ★★★ (’17, Crime Drama) John Boyega. As rioting and civil unrest rocks Detroit during the summer of 1967, several policemen begin interrogating guests at the Algiers Motel. By the end of the night, three unarmed men are gunned down while several others are brutally beaten. (cc) . . . . . . . . . AMC 7:00am......................Second Act ★★ (’18, Romance-Comedy) Jennifer Lopez. After losing a promotion to a college-educated candidate, a frustrated assistant manager sets out to prove to Madison Avenue that street smarts are as valuable as book smarts — and it’s never too late for a second act. (cc)FREE 8:00 am The Chronicles of Riddick ★★ (’04, Science Fiction) Vin Diesel. On the run from mercenaries, a fugitive lands on a planet endangered by an invading ruler and his bloodthirsty army. (cc)SYFY 8:28 am. . . . Border Treasure ★★ (’50, Western) Tim Holt. Two cowboys seek jewels and silver hijacked en route from Arizona to Mexico. (cc). . . . . . . . . . . TCM