THIS WEEK’S MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS
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)PARMT 10:00pm............................. Captain America: Civil War ★★★ (’16 , Action) Chris Evans. Black Widow and Hawkeye must pick a side when a feud between Captain America and Iron Man leaves the Avengers in turmoil. (cc)SYFY 10:00 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) TRU
WEDNESDAY
6:15am..........................That Hamilton Woman ★★★ (’41, Historical Drama) Vivien Leigh. British naval hero Lord Nelson’s affair with another man’s wife ends at Trafalgar in 1805. (cc)
TCM 7:30am............................... Kung Fu Panda 3 ★★★ (’16, Children’s) Voices of Jack Black. Animated. After reuniting with his long-lost father, Po must train a village of clumsy pandas to help him defeat a supernatural warrior who becomes stronger with each battle. (cc)
FX 8:30am...........................Les Girls ★★★ (’57, Musical) Gene Kelly. An entertainer’s memoirs of her years in a musical revue lead her to court and a reunion with her former co-workers. (cc)
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9:00am.............TheRecruit ★★
(’03, Suspense) Al Pacino. A veteran CIA agent assigns his young protégé to find a mole within the organization. (cc)AMC
9:30am.............................. Despicable Me 3 ★★ (’17, Children’s) Voices of Steve Carell. Animated. Fired from the Anti-Villain League, Gru travels to Freedonia to meet his long-lost twin brother for the first time. The siblings soon find themselves in an uneasy alliance to take down Balthazar Bratt, a former 1980s child star who’s out for revenge.(cc).....................
FX 10:00 am Wyatt Earp ★★ (’94, Biography) Kevin Costner. The portrait traces him from Southern boy to Western lawman defending boomtowns with his brothers and Doc Holliday. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . .HIST 10:22 am . . . . . . . . Leprechaun ★★ (’93, Horror) Warwick Davis. An Irish fairy escapes from a crate and goes on a gory quest for his 100 stolen gold coins. (cc)
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10:30 am . . . . . The Solid Gold Cadillac ★★★ (’56, Comedy) Judy Holliday. The ex-president of a corporation shows a stockholder how to rock the board with her10shares....................
TCM 11:00 am. . . . . . Hotel Transylvania ★★
(’12, Children’s) Voices of Adam Sandler. Animated. An unforeseen complication unfolds when Dracula invites the world’s most-infamous monsters to his lavish resort to celebrate his daughter’s 118th birthday.(cc)...................
FREE 11:30 am Sing ★★★ (’16, Children’s) Voices of Matthew McConaughey. Animated. A pig, a mouse, a porcupine, a gorilla, an elephant and other animals gather at a koala’s theater for a singing competition.(cc).........................
FX 11:30 am . . . . . . Triple 9 ★★ (’16, Crime Drama) Casey Affleck. Criminals and crooked cops hatch a devious scheme to use an honest lawman as a pawn for a heist.(cc).......................
AMC NOON . . . . . . . . . . Friends With Benefits ★★★ (’11, Romance-Comedy) Justin Timberlake. Friends naively believe that adding sex to their relationship will not lead to complications. (cc) . . . . . . . . .
E! 12:27 pm . . . . . . . . . . Underworld: Blood Wars ★★ (’16, Fantasy) Kate Beckinsale. With help from her only two allies, death dealer Selene embarks on a quest to end the eternal war between vampires and Lycans, even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice. (cc) . . . . . . . . . .
SYFY 12:30 pm. . . . Designing Woman ★★★
(’57, Comedy) Gregory Peck. A married sportswriter and fashion designer have clashing friends. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . .
TCM 1:00pm........................Hotel Transylvania 2 ★★ (’15, Children’s) Voices of Adam Sandler. Animated. Concerned that his half-human grandson isn’t showing his vampire side, Dracula and his friends put the boy through a monster-in-training boot camp just as Drac’s old-school father decides to pay a visit.(cc).......................
FREE 2:15pm...........................G.I. Jane ★★★ (’97, Drama) Demi Moore. A female Navy SEALs recruit completes rigorous training under a tough officer’s command.(cc)..................
AMC 2:29pm.................... Jennifer’s Body ★★ (’09, Horror) Megan Fox. A beautiful cheerleader gains an insatiable appetite for human flesh after a hungry demon takes control of her body. (cc)
SYFY 2:30pm............................... Baby Mama ★★ (’08, Comedy) Tina Fey. A battle of wills breaks out when a working-class woman moves in with the high-powered executive who hired her to be a surrogate mother. (cc). . . . . .
E! 2:30 pm. . . . . . . Tom Thumb ★★★ (’58, Children’s) Russ Tamblyn. A forest queen rewards a woodcutter and his wife with a son just shy of six inches high. (cc)TCM
3:00pm.........................First Sunday ★★ (’08, Comedy) Ice Cube. Bumbling thieves decide to rob a church to raise some much-needed cash, but they discover that someone else has already beaten them to the punch. (cc)
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3:00 pm Kong: Skull Island ★★★ (’17, Adventure) Tom Hiddleston. Scientists, soldiers and adventurers encounter the mighty Kong and other monstrous creatures after traveling to an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. (cc). . .
TNT 3:00 pm . . . . . Scary Movie ★★★ (’00, Comedy) Shawn Wayans. Keenen Ivory Wayans directed this sendup of slasher films in which a vengeful killer stalks a group of nubile teens. (cc) . . . . . . .
VH1 4:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Fate of the Furious ★★ (’17, Action) Vin Diesel. Members of the globe-trotting crew face an unexpected challenge when a mysterious woman named Cipher forces Dom to betray them all. Now, they must unite to bring home the man who made them a family and stop her from unleashing chaos.(cc).......................
FX 4:30 pm . . . . . . . . . . . Trainwreck ★★★
(’15, Romance-Comedy) Amy Schumer. 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). . .
E! 4:30pm.............................. Lili ★★★ (’53, Musical) Leslie Caron. A French teen joins a carnival and meets a lying magician and a loving puppeteer. (cc).............................
TCM 4:45pm............................... 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 5:00pm....................Detective Pikachu ★★ (’19, Children’s) Voice of Ryan Reynolds. Live action/animated. A young man joins forces with Detective Pikachu to unravel the mystery behind his father’s disappearance. Chasing clues through the streets of Ryme City, the dynamic duo soon discover a devious plot that poses a threat to the Pokémon universe.(cc)...................
TOON 5:15pm................ TheLegendof Tarzan ★★ (’16, Adventure) Alexander Skarsgard. Lured from Victorian England to the wilds of the Congo, Tarzan must return to the jungle to save his captive wife from King Leopold’s devious envoy. (cc).............................
TNT 5:15pm.............. 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)
AMC 6:00 pm Nutty Professor II: The Klumps ★★ (’00, Comedy) Eddie Murphy. In an attempt to remove Buddy Love from his subconscious, professor Klump accidentally creates him as a separate person. (cc).............................
BET 6:00 pm . . . Cyrano de Bergerac ★★★
(’50, Drama) Jose Ferrer. Long-nosed Cyrano loves fair Roxane but woos her with verse for a tongue-tied friend. (cc)
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6:45 pm Captain America: Civil War ★★★
(’16, Action) Chris Evans. Black Widow and Hawkeye must pick a side when a feud between Captain America and Iron Man leaves the Avengers in turmoil. (cc)
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7:00 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). . . .
E! 7:00 pm . . . . . . . . . Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw ★★ (’19, Action) Dwayne Johnson. Hulking lawman Luke Hobbs teams up with lawless operative Deckard Shaw to battle a cybernetically enhanced soldier who possesses superhuman strength, a brilliant mind and a lethal pathogen that could wipe out half of the world’s population. (cc) . . . .
FX 8:00pm..........................Die Hard ★★★ (’88, Action) Bruce Willis. A New York policeman outwits foreign thugs holding his wife and others in a Los Angeles high-rise. (cc) . . . . . . .
AMC 8:00 pm . Harvey ★★★ (’50, Comedy) James Stewart. A woman tries to have her tippling brother put away when his claims of a 6-foot invisible rabbit cause embarrassment. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . .
TCM 9:00pm................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) . . . . . . . .
LIFE 10:00pm.....................Django Unchained ★★★ (’12, Western) Jamie Foxx. A former slave joins forces with the German bounty hunter who freed him and helps hunt down the South’s most-wanted criminals, all in the hope of finding his long-lost wife. (cc)PARMT 10:00pm............................. Lust for Life ★★★★ (’56, Biography) Kirk Douglas. Tormented Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh meets French painter PaulGauguin.(cc)...............
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THURSDAY
6:30 am A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ★★★★ (’66, Musical Comedy) Zero Mostel. A con-man slave and his sidekick fake a courtesan’s funeral to fool a pimp in ancient Rome. (cc).............................
TCM 7:00am.................Leprechaun ★★ (’93, Horror) Warwick Davis. An Irish fairy escapes from a crate and goes on a gory quest for his 100 stolen gold coins. (cc)............................
SYFY 8:30am............................... Exodus ★★★ (’60, Historical Drama) Paul Newman. An Israeli nationalist, a U.S. nurse and 611 Jewish refugees break a 1947 British blockade. (cc) . . . . . .
TCM 10:30 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 NOON.............Trainwreck ★★★
(’15, Romance-Comedy) Amy Schumer. 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). . .
E! NOON Predator ★★★ (’87, Action) Arnold Schwarzenegger. A sneaky alien monster attacks commandos on a jungle mission in South America. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . .
AMC 12:30 pm. . . . It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ★★★ (’63, Comedy) Spencer Tracy. A motley assortment of characters embarks on a chaotic and slapstick-filled race to find $350,000 in buried loot. (cc)
TCM 1:00pm..................TheFateof the Furious ★★ (’17, Action) Vin Diesel. Members of the globe-trotting crew face an unexpected challenge when a mysterious woman named Cipher forces Dom to betray them all. Now, they must unite to bring home the man who made them a family and stop her from unleashing chaos.(cc).......................
FX 1:00pm.............................. What to Expect When You’re Expecting ★★ (’12, Comedy-Drama) Cameron Diaz. Pregnancy hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author in one of five intertwined tales about the challenges of impending parenthood. (cc). .
FREE 1:30 pm Pitch Black ★★ (’00, Science Fiction) Radha Mitchell. After crash landing on a distant planet, survivors must fight deadly creatures that come out only at night.(cc)......................
SYFY 2:30pm...........................Die Hard ★★★ (’88, Action) Bruce Willis. A New York policeman outwits foreign thugs holding his wife and others in a Los Angeles high-rise. (cc) . . . . . . .
AMC 3:00 pm Nutty Professor II: The Klumps ★★ (’00, Comedy) Eddie Murphy. In an attempt to remove Buddy Love from his subconscious, professor Klump accidentally creates him as a separate person. (cc).............................
BET 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). . . .
E! 3:00pm...............TheLegendof Tarzan ★★ (’16, Adventure) Alexander Skarsgard. Lured from Victorian England to the wilds of the Congo, Tarzan must return to the jungle to save his captive wife from King Leopold’s devious envoy. (cc).............................
TNT 3:30 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 3:30 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
3:30 pm. . . . . The Time Machine ★★★
(’60, Science Fiction) Rod Taylor. H.G. Wells’ time traveler journeys through time, experiencing several civilizations. Oscar-winning special effects. (cc)TCM
4:00 pm . . . . . . . . . Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw ★★ (’19, Action) Dwayne Johnson. Hulking lawman Luke Hobbs teams up with lawless operative Deckard Shaw to battle a cybernetically enhanced soldier who possesses superhuman strength, a brilliant mind and a lethal pathogen that could wipe out half of the world’s population. (cc) . . . .
FX 5:00 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 5:15pm..............................., Star Wars: A New Hope ★★★★ (’77 Science Fiction) Mark Hamill. Robots and other allies help a youth and a space jockey rescue a rebel princess and battle dark forces bent on intergalactic rule. (cc).............................
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Hard 2 ★★★ (’90, Action) Bruce Willis.