Films day-by-day
Nacho Libre
Comedy Central HD, 11.35am/Comedy Central+1, 12.35pm 4Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOOYou don’t need to have seen any Mexican wrestling movies for this goofy
spoof of the genre by Jared Hess, director of Napoleon Dynamite, to reduce
you to a quivering pile of giggles. Jack Black plays a lowly friar at a rural
orphanage who decides to transform himself into masked wrestler NachoLibre in order to pay for more tasty meals for his wards. Like the Marx
Brothers, this is comedy that revels in its own sheer silliness, such as fighting
off street toughs armed with nothing but corn-on-the-cob. 2006, 12, 92MINCOMEDY
Sunday 29 September
THRILLER
Red Lights
Horror, 9pm/Horror+1, 10pm 3
Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOOSigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy’s
professional sceptics go about their
business of exposing fake paranormal
phenomena until Robert De Niro’s
legendary blind psychic knocks the
pair’s mission off course. This twisty
psychological thriller is slickly edited,
eerily atmospheric and superbly acted
by its leading trio, and, despite an
overwrought and over-explained finale,
director Rodrigo Cortés’s sleight of hand
is spookily good. 2012, 15, 113MINALSO ON SATURDAY
Finding Neverland
Sony Movies, 2pm 5
Johnny and Kate believe in fairies.A Dog’s Way Home
Sky Premiere HD, 6.15pm 3
She needs a woof over her head.Annie Hall
BBC2 HD, 10.35pm 5
Can Woody Allen and Diane Keaton relate?The Heat
C4 HD, 11.20pm 3
Melissa and Sandra have to be best buddies.Night Train to Lisbon
BBC2 HD, 12.05am 3
Jeremy Irons reads between the lines.Q Full listings start on p33
SCI-FI ADVENTURE
Star Trek VI: The
Undiscovered Country
Sky Sky-Fi HD, 6pm 4Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOOThis rousing final screen adventure for the
original crew of the starship Enterprise is,
perhaps unsurprisingly, tinged with
sadness. The plot ranks among the best
of their big-screen voyages as Captain
Kirk is accused of murdering a Klingon
ambassador and sentenced to life on
a frigid prison planet. David Warner is
suitably noble as the Klingon envoy, and
Kim Cattrall plays a Vulcan lieutenant on
the Enterprise. 1991, PG, 109MINANIMATED FANTASY
Tangled
Sky Disney HD, 6.15pm 4Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOODisney’s 50th animated movie gives the
Brothers Grimm fairy tale of Rapunzel a
makeover with a delightful musical that
tweaks and teases the original story just
enough for a modern audience. Heroine
Rapunzel (voiced by Mandy Moore),
here transformed into a princess, is
abducted at birth by wicked enchantress
Mother Gothel (Broadway star Donna
Murphy) and locked in a tower, until
rascally thief Flynn Rider (Shazam’s
Zachary Levi) turns up. 2010, PG, 100MINMYSTERY THRILLER
Now You See Me 2
Film4 HD, 6.25pm/
Film4+1, 7.25pm 3Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOOSwaggering bank-robbing magicians the
Four Horsemen are back for a sequel to
2013’s flashy heist thriller. Here, the
quartet – Jesse Eisenberg, Woody
Harrelson, Dave Franco and new recruit
Lizzy Caplan – are coerced by Daniel
Radcliffe’s dodgy tech tycoon into pulling
off the theft of a new data-mining
device. The feints and flourishes can’t
disguise the fact that there’s little of
substance underneath. 2016, 12, 129MINALSO ON SUNDAY
Armored
Sony Movies, 12.20pm 3
The best laid plans....Terms of Endearment
Paramount HD, 4.30pm 5
Shirley and Debra get melodramatic.The Swimmer
Talking Pictures, 10pm 5
Burt Lancaster is out of his depth.Hot Summer Nights
Sky Premiere HD, 10.10pm 2
Storm’s coming for Timothée Chalamet.Papillon
Sky Premiere HD, 12.10am 3
Charlie and Rami want to break free.Q Full listings start on p43
At least Jack didn’t
have to wrestle with
his conscienceJulieta
BBC4 HD, 9pm 4Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOOAdapting three stories by Canadian author Alice Munro, this visually
sumptuous, emotionally resonant melodrama from Spanish maestro Pedro
Almodóvar finds Emma Suarez’s middle-aged Julieta (played as a younger
woman by Adriana Ugarte) looking back at the tangled and sometimes tragicevents that have shaped her life. Switching back and forth between past and
present, Almodóvar delivers some unexpected twists and turns along the way.
The mood is sombre, but the film still looks gorgeous. Subtitled. 2016, 15, 99MINDRAMA
Saturday 28 September
ACTION COMEDY
The Hitman’s Bodyguard
C4 HD, 9pm/C4+1, 10pm 3Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOOPREMIERE Aiming to recapture the
mismatched buddy dynamic of such
films as Midnight Run and 48 Hrs, Ryan
Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson play
chalk ’n’ cheese frenemies in this action
comedy. Reynolds is a finicky professional
bodyguard and Jackson is the assassin he
must escort from prison to give evidence
in court. The film is far too scattershot
to live up to its movie precursors, but
the stars’ chemistry keeps the show
on the road. 2017, 15, 115MINMUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Marianne & Leonard:
Words of Love
BBC2 HD, 9pm 4
Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOOPREMIERE This fascinating documentary
tells the love story between Canadian
singer, songwriter, novelist and poet
Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse
Marianne Ihlen. Director Nick Broomfield
recreates their relationship with help
from terrific archive material and
interviews, and shows how Ilhen inspired
several of gravel-voiced Cohen’s most
famous songs, including the iconic So
Long, Marianne. 2019, 12, 102MINBath time wasn’t
the same for
Adriana without
her rubber duck