THIS WEEK’S MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS

SUNDAY

6:00am ......................... First Lady ★★★ (’37, Comedy) Kay Francis. The secretary of state’s Washington-wise wife wants him to be president. (cc)TCM

7:30 am . . . . . . Anthony Adverse ★★★

(’36, Romance) Fredric March. The hero finds his wife has become an opera star and mistress to Napoleon Bonaparte. (cc) ............................. TCM 7:45am ............................... Major League ★★ (’89, Comedy) Tom Berenger. Lackluster baseball players hear their Cleveland team’s new owner is counting on them to lose. (cc) . AMC 8:00am ..............................

Air Force One ★★★ (’97, Suspense) Harrison Ford. Demanding the release of a political prisoner, a terrorist and his gang hijack the U.S. president’s plane. (cc) ............................. TNT 8:30am ................. HarryPotter and the Half-Blood Prince ★★★ (’09, Children’s) Daniel Radcliffe. Dumbledore tries to prepare Harry for the final battle with Voldemort, while Death Eaters wreak havoc in both Muggle and Wizard worlds, and tragedy looms on the horizon.(cc) .......................... E! 9:00am .............................. The Program ★★ (’93, Drama) James Caan. A college football coach forfeits all but winning to get his troubled team to the big game. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FX 9:00am .............. Invincible ★★

(’06, Biography) Mark Wahlberg. At 30 years old, bartender Vince Papale sees his wildest dreams come true when he becomes a member of the Philadelphia Eagles football team. (cc) . . . . . . . FREE 10:00 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thunder Road ★★ (’58, Adventure) Robert Mitchum. A Korean War veteran hot-rods his family’s Kentucky moonshine past a Treasury agent and a mobster to Memphis. (cc)

Wolverine confronts lethal samurai steel and grapples with the ghosts of his own hauntedpast.(cc) ............. PARMT NOON . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Copperfield ★★★ (’35, Drama) W.C. Fields. Dickens’ Victorian orphan drifts until he finds a friendly aunt and the girl he will marry. (cc) ............................. TCM 12:30 pm . . . . . Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ★★★ (’88, Comedy) Steve Martin. An American con man and his British rival target a soap heiress from Cleveland on theFrenchRiviera ................

12:30 pm . . . . . . . . Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword ★★ (’09, Children’s) Voices of Frank Welker. Animated. While in Tokyo for a martial arts tournament, Scooby, Shaggy and the rest of the gang are confronted by the Black Samurai, an evil spirit who was vanquished in ancient Japan but has been mysteriously resurrected.(cc) ............... TOON 12:30pm ................ FastTimesat Ridgemont High ★★★ (’82, Comedy) Sean Penn. The teen scene includes a party-animal surfer, a pregnant girl and a fast-food worker. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . AMC 1:00 pm The Prestige ★★★ (’06, Drama) Hugh Jackman. After an illusion goes tragically wrong, two 19th-century magicians engage in a bitter and potentially deadlyrivalry.(cc) .............. SYFY 1:00pm ................... TheGreen Mile ★★★ (’99, Drama) Tom Hanks. In 1935 a head prison guard realizes a man on death row may be innocent and have a supernatural ability to heal others. (cc)

TNT

1:15 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 2:00 pm Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection ★★ (’12, Comedy) Tyler Perry. Placed under federal protection in Madea’s Southern home, a Wall Street banker and his dysfunctional family get a taste of the no-nonsense matriarch’s special brand of tough love. (cc) . BET 2:30 pm Remember the Titans ★★★ (’00, Drama) Denzel Washington. A Virginia high school hires a black football coach after undergoing integration in 1971. (cc)

FX

2:30pm .................. Spider-Man ★★★ (’02, Action) Tobey Maguire. Peter Parker uses his superhuman powers to battle his archenemy, the Green Goblin. (cc) ........................... PARMT 2:30pm ............... TheGamePlan ★★ (’07, Children’s) Dwayne ‘The Rock‘ Johnson. A star football player tries to juggle his carefree lifestyle, his team’s bid for the championship and the needs of his newly discovered young daughter. (cc) ............................ FREE 2:30 pm The Craft ★★ (’96, Horror) Robin Tunney. Premiere. Teen misfits befriend a suicidal newcomer and strike back at their tormentors with witchcraft in Los Angeles.(cc) .................... AMC 2:30 pm . . . . . Designing Woman ★★★

(’57, Comedy) Gregory Peck. A married sportswriter and fashion designer have clashing friends. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM 3:00pm ........... Friday ★★★ (’95,

Comedy) Ice Cube. A South Central Los

PARMT

6:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ★★★ (’16, Fantasy) Eddie Redmayne. Magizoologist Newt Scamander, two sisters and a No-Maj battle dark forces while tracking down magical creatures set free in the wizarding world of 1926 New York. (cc)

E!

must embark on a mission to find out what’s real and what’s not. (cc) . . . . FX 2:30 pm. . The Secret Life of Pets ★★★

(’16, Children’s) Voices of Louis C.K. Animated. A domesticated terrier and his unruly canine pal encounter a rebellious bunny and his gang of abandoned pets. (cc) ............................ FREE 3:00pm ......................... This Christmas ★★ (’07, Comedy-Drama) Delroy Lindo. A matriarch assembles her brood for their first holiday reunion in four years, but secrets come to light and family ties become strained. (cc) . BET 3:00 pm . . . . Tag ★★ (’18, Comedy) Ed Helms. Five highly competitive friends hit the ground running for their yearly, no-holds-barred game of tag — risking their necks, their jobs and their relationships to take one another down. (cc)TNT 3:00 pm Varsity Blues ★★ (’99, ComedyDrama) James Van Der Beek. Premiere. When the star quarterback is injured, a rigid high-school football coach expects an irreverent player to lead the team to victory.(cc) ..................... AMC 4:00 pm . . . . . . . . The Americanization of Emily ★★★ (’64, Comedy-Drama) James Garner. A Navy officer, ordered to document the first D-Day fatality, wines and dines a London widow. (cc) . . TCM 4:30pm ............. ThePacifier ★★

(’05, Children’s) Vin Diesel. A Navy SEAL faces the ultimate test when he must care for five children and protect them from their father’s enemies. (cc) FREE 5:00 pm . . . . . . A Good Day to Die Hard ★★ (’13, Action) Bruce Willis. New York City cop John McClane and his estranged son must put aside their differences and work together to get a Russian whistleblower to safety and thwart a disastrous crime in Chernobyl. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . FX 5:00pm ................. GameNight ★★★ (’18, Comedy) Jason Bateman. A couple’s weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when their friends agree to participate in a murder mystery party. They soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaoticnight.(cc) ............... TNT 6:15pm ............................... Mister Buddwing ★★ (’66, Suspense) James Garner. An amnesiac wakes up in New York and turns to women he might have known, hoping to remember. (cc)

TCM

6:30pm ......................... Spy ★★★ (’15, Comedy) Melissa McCarthy. When her partner falls off the grid and another top agent is compromised, a desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go deep under cover as the world’s newest and unlikeliest secret weapon. (cc)FREE

6:33pm ................ 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) ............................ SYFY 7:00pm ..................... Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation ★★★ (’15, Action) Tom Cruise. Ethan Hunt and his team take on their most impossible mission yet to eradicate the Syndicate — a highly skilled, international organization dedicated to creating a new world order via a series of terrorist attacks. (cc) FX 7:00pm ........................ Four Brothers ★★ (’05, Crime Drama) Mark Wahlberg. Diverse siblings reunite for revenge after learning about the murder of their adoptive mother. (cc) . . . . VH1 8:00pm ..................... TheLost Valentine ★★ (’11, Drama) Jennifer Love Hewitt. A reporter seeks the truth about a woman’s husband, a pilot who never returned from duty in World War II.(cc) .......................... HALL 8:00 pm . . . . . . . . . Dirty Dancing ★★★

(’87, Romance) Jennifer Grey. A doctor’s teenage daughter gets slinky with the dance teacher at a Catskills resort in the summer of 1963. (cc) . . . . . . . . . . PARMT 8:00pm .............................. Major League ★★ (’89, Comedy) Tom Berenger. Lackluster baseball players hear their Cleveland team’s new owner is counting on them to lose. (cc) . AMC 8:00 pm The Bachelor Father ★★ (’31, Comedy) Marion Davies. Crusty Sir Basil invites his illegitimate children, including a daughter who wants to fly across the Atlantic, to visit him at his manor house. (cc) ............................. TCM 9:00pm .................... Vacation ★★ (’15, Comedy) Ed Helms. Premiere. Following in his father’s footsteps, Rusty Griswold takes his wife and two sons on a cross-country road trip to America’s favorite fun park, Walley World. (cc)FREE

9:01pm ....................... Tomb Raider ★★ (’18, Adventure) Alicia Vikander. Hoping to solve the mystery of her father’s disappearance, young Lara Croft embarks on a perilous journey to his last-known destination — a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. (cc)

SYFY

9:30pm ............................ 8 Mile ★★★ (’02, Drama) Eminem. Living with his destitute mother, a young man in Detroit tries to overcome obstacles and achieve success as a rapper. (cc)VH1

9:45pm ..................... Fiveand Ten ★★ (’31, Drama) Marion Davies. A dime-store heiress rejects a New Yorker, then destroys his marriage. (cc) . . TCM 10:00 pm . . . . . 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 wrong hands.(cc) ....................... FX 10:00 pm . . Forgetting Sarah Marshall ★★★ (’08, Romance-Comedy) Jason Segel. In Hawaii struggling to get over a bad breakup, a musician encounters his former lover and her new boyfriend. (cc)

TRU

WEDNESDAY

6:00 am . . . . . . . . . . . . A Tale of Two Cities ★★★ (’35, Historical Drama) Ronald Colman. Dickens’ Madame Defarge knits, the Bastille falls, and a London lawyer makes a great sacrifice for love. (cc)TCM 7:00 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