Miami Herald (Sunday)

THIS WEEK’S MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS

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9:30am.......................Shrek 2 ★★★ (’04, Children’s) Voices of Mike Myers. Animated. A green ogre, his new wife and a donkey find adventure while visiting his in-laws. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . COM 9:30 am . . . . . . . . . . . . The Color Purple ★★★ (’85, Drama) Whoopi Goldberg. A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering years of abuse from her father and others over 40years.(cc).................... AMC 10:00am............TheA-Team ★★ (’10, Action) Liam Neeson. Framed to take the fall for a heinous crime, an elite operative and his men go rogue, using their special talents to clear their names and find the real perpetrato­r. (cc) TNT 10:30am.......................Night School ★★ (’18, Comedy) Kevin Hart. A salesman’s life takes an unexpected turn when he accidental­ly blows up his place of employment. Forced to attend night school to get his GED, he must now deal with a group of misfit students and a feisty teacher who doesn’t think he’s too bright.(cc)....................... FX 10:30am................Spider-Man 3 ★★ (’07, Action) Tobey Maguire. Peter Parker undergoes an ominous transforma­tion when his Spider-Man suit turns black and brings out the dark, vengeful side of his personalit­y. (cc). . . . . . . MTV 11:30am.............................. Shrek ★★★ (’01, Children’s) Voices of Mike Myers. Animated. In order to save his home, a monster with a donkey makes a deal with a mean lord to rescue a beautiful princess. (cc) . . . . . . . . . COM 11:35am.............................. Mirror Mirror ★★ (’12, Children’s) Julia Roberts. Saved from death by a band of diminutive highway robbers, an exiled princess vows to win back her kingdom from an evil queen. (cc) . . . . . . . . FREE NOON Stagecoach ★★★★ (’39, Western) John Wayne. An outlaw, a prostitute, a drunken doctor and assorted others go through Indian country. (cc) . . . . . TCM 12:30pm......................... The Spy Who Dumped Me ★★ (’18, Action) Mila Kunis. Unexpected­ly thrust into an internatio­nal conspiracy, two best friends find themselves dodging deadly assassins and a suspicious British agent while hatching a plan to save the world. (cc)............................. BRV 12:30pm......................Elektra ★★ (’05, Action) Jennifer Garner. Hired to kill a man and his daughter, an assassin instead protects them while battling formidable adversarie­s. (cc) . . . . SYFY 12:30 pm Rush Hour ★★★ (’98, Action) Jackie Chan. A Hong Kong detective and a wisecracki­ng L.A.P.D. detective choose to work together to find the missing daughter of a Chinese diplomat. (cc)TNT 1:00pm.............................. Instant Family ★★★ (’18, ComedyDram­a) Mark Wahlberg. Hoping to start a family, Pete and Ellie turn to the foster care system to make their dream come true. The couple soon learn the joys and frustratio­ns of parenthood when they decide to adopt three siblings, including a rebellious 15-year-old girl. (cc). . . FX 1:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ★★ (’16, Action)

Ben Affleck. Convinced that Superman is now a threat to humanity, Batman embarks on a personal vendetta to end his reign on Earth, while the conniving Lex Luthor launches his own crusade against theManofSt­eel.(cc)............ TBS 1:00pm..............Unbroken ★★ (’14, Biography) Jack O’Connell. During World War II, Olympian and war hero Louie Zamperini survives for 47 days at sea in a raft, only to be captured by the Japanese navy and sent to a series of prisoner-of-war camps. (cc). . . . . . AMC 1:40 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . 50 First Dates ★★ (’04, Romance-Comedy) Adam Sandler. A veterinari­an tries to make a woman who has short-term memory loss fall in lovewithhi­m.(cc).............. FREE 1:45pm............................... Giant ★★★★ (’56, Drama) Elizabeth Taylor. A cattleman and his spoiled wife watch an upstart oilman try to take over Texas.(cc)...................... TCM 2:00 pm Ray ★★★ (’04, Biography) Jamie Foxx. Blind since childhood, Ray Charles overcomes poverty, hardship and addiction and becomes an American music legend.(cc)..................... BET 2:00pm.................Spider-Man ★★★ (’02, Action) Tobey Maguire. Peter Parker uses his superhuman powers to battle his archenemy, the Green Goblin. (cc)............................. MTV 2:30 pm Rush Hour 2 ★★ (’01, Action) Jackie Chan. Two detectives battle a Hong Kong gangster and his henchmen after a bombing at the U.S. Embassy. (cc) TNT

3:00 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 at a party. (cc). . BRV 3:30pm......................Horrible Bosses ★★ (’11, Comedy) Jason Bateman. Three oppressed workers devise a complex and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their intolerabl­e employers.(cc)................... FX 3:45 pm Keeping Up With the Joneses ★★ (’16, Comedy) Zach Galifianak­is. An ordinary suburban couple discover it’s not easy keeping up with their gorgeous and ultra-sophistica­ted new neighbors, the Joneses, especially when they discover that Mr. and Mrs. Jones are really covert operatives.(cc)................. FREE 4:00 pm Aquaman ★★ (’18, Action) Jason Momoa. Aquaman must retrieve the legendary Trident of Atlan to save the underwater city of Atlantis — and the surface world — from his power-hungry brother.(cc)..................... TBS 4:00pm........................ Jaws ★★★★ (’75, Suspense) Roy Scheider. A New England police chief, a shark hunter and a scientist have a showdown with a huge white shark. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . AMC 5:00pm.............................. Den of Thieves ★★ (’18, Crime Drama) Gerard Butler. An elite unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department squares off against a crew of ex-military men who hatch an elaborate plan for a seemingly impossible heist — the city’s Federal Reserve Bank. (cc) . . . . . . . A&E 5:00pm.............................. Spider-Man 2 ★★★ (’04, Action) Tobey Maguire. Tormented Peter Parker battles a sinister scientist who uses mechanical tentacles for destructiv­e purposes. (cc) MTV 5:00pm.....................Journey to the Center of the Earth ★★ (’08, Children’s) Brendan Fraser. A science professor and his nephew encounter strange creatures and stranger lands as they travel beneath the Earth’s surface. (cc)............................ SYFY 5:00pm........................ Love & Basketball ★★★ (’00, Romance) Sanaa Lathan. From childhood to early adulthood, two friends fall in love while trying to establish basketball careers. (cc)............................. VH1 5:15 pm Home From the Hill ★★★ (’60, Drama) Robert Mitchum. The son of a Texas millionair­e rivals his illegitima­te brother for a woman. (cc). . . . . . . . TCM 5:30 pm . . . . . . . . . The Hangover Part II ★★ (’11, Comedy) Bradley Cooper. Hoping to avoid the mayhem that marked his friend’s Las Vegas bachelor party,

Stu opts for what he thinks will be a safe prewedding brunch in Thailand. (cc)FX 6:00 pm . Madagascar ★★★ (’05, Children’s) Voices of Ben Stiller. Animated. Zoo animals must learn to survive in the wild after they wash ashore on an exotic island.(cc)..................... TOON 6:15 pm Sweet Home Alabama ★★ (’02, Romance-Comedy) Reese Witherspoo­n. Separated from her Southern husband, an engaged New York fashion designer confronts him about a divorce. (cc)FREE 6:30 pm Bad Boys ★★ (’95, Action) Martin Lawrence. Undercover Miami detectives switch lives while investigat­ing murders linked to stolen heroin. (cc) . . . . . . USA 7:00pm.............................. 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) SYFY 7:00pm......................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 7:00 pm The SpongeBob SquarePant­s Movie ★★★ (’04, Children’s) Voices of Tom Kenny. Animated. SpongeBob and Patrick head for Shell City to retrieve King Neptune’s stolen crown and save the life of Mr. Krabs. (cc) . . . . . . . . NICK 7:00 pm Gran Torino ★★★ (’08, Drama) Clint Eastwood. An unlikely friendship forms between a bigoted war veteran and an Asian boy who tried to steal the man’s treasured automobile. (cc) AMC 8:00 pm . . . Hacksaw Ridge ★★★ (’16,

War) Andrew Garfield. During World War

II’s Battle of Okinawa, U.S. Army medic Desmond Doss braves bullets, grenades and snipers while single-handedly evacuating the wounded from behind enemylines.(cc)................ A&E 8:00pm....................Wedding Crashers ★★★ (’05, Comedy) Owen Wilson. Two divorce mediators spend a wild weekend partying with a politician and his eccentric family. (cc) . . . . . . FX 8:00 pm . . . . . . . . . Blood Simple ★★★ (’84, Suspense) John Getz. A jealous bar owner hires a malevolent private detective to kill his straying wife and her lover. (cc)............................. TCM 8:50pm................TheProposa­l ★★ (’09, Romance-Comedy) Sandra Bullock. Facing deportatio­n to Canada, a high-powered book editor pretends she is engaged to her assistant, whom she’s tormented for years. (cc) . . . . . . . FREE 9:00pm.................... TheMaze Runner ★★ (’14, Science Fiction) Dylan O’Brien. A teen awakes within a massive maze with other teens, with no memory of his past other than dreams about an organizati­on known as WCKD. He hopes to escape by piecing together fragments of his past and clues he discovers in the labyrinth.(cc).................. SYFY 9:00 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) . . . . . . USA 9:30pm.....................Wonder

Woman ★★★ (’17, Action) Gal Gadot.

After leaving her all-female island for the first time, Wonder Woman discovers her full powers and true destiny while fighting alongside men in a war to end allwars.(cc)..................... TBS 9:30pm.........................The Fugitive ★★★ (’93, Suspense) Harrison Ford. A U.S. marshal hunts a doctor on the run who was convicted of murdering hiswife.(cc).................... AMC 9:45 pm . . . Fargo ★★★ (’96, Comedy) Frances McDormand. A pregnant police chief probes the murderous events that evolved from a desperate car salesman’s kidnapping scheme. (cc) . . . . . . . . . TCM

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