Films day-by-day
Bridget Jones’s Baby
Channel 5 HD, 9pm/Channel 5+1, 10pm 3Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOOBack for her third turn as Helen Fielding’s irrepressible Bridget Jones, Renée
Zellweger proves as funny and endearing as ever. She does, however, have a
new predicament with which to wrestle in her inimitably cack-handed fashion:
pregnancy. And she doesn’t know who’s the daddy, with the prospective fatherbeing either Patrick Dempsey’s smooth billionaire American Jack or Colin
Firth’s uptight, ill-at-ease Mark Darcy. It’s a slender plot, but director Sharon
Maguire makes the most of the gags. Also on Friday. 2016, 15, 123MINDRAMA
Sunday 18 August
PERIOD DRAMA
Lizzie
Sky Premiere HD, 10.20pm/
Sky Premiere+1, 11.20pm 4Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOOThe name Lizzie Borden conjures up that
macabre rhyme about the axe and the
whacks. But did this young woman in
1890s New England really murder her
father and stepmother? This intriguing
drama presents a shocking solution to
the mystery and boasts compelling turns
from Chloë Sevigny as Lizzie and Kristen
Stewart as the Irish immigrant maid who
becomes her intimate friend. Also on
Sunday & Monday. 2018, 15, 105MINALSO ON SATURDAY
Muppets Most Wanted
BBC1 HD, 2pm 3
Kermit’s in Russia without love.Song for Marion
BBC2 HD, 5.30pm 4
Terence and Vanessa are chalk and cheese.A Stork’s Journey
Sky Premiere HD, 6.20pm 2
Birds of a feather don’t stick together.Fast & Furious 8
ITV HD, 9pm 3
Whose side is Vin Diesel on?Quartet
BBC2 HD, 11pm 4
Billy Connolly and friends sing out.■ Full listings start on p33
DRAMA
Euphoria
Sky Drama HD, 2.15pm 3Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOOAlicia Vikander and Eva Green give their
all as estranged sisters, struggling for
reconciliation in this elegant art-house
drama, although the film’s contrived
setup isn’t necessarily the best showcase
for their performances. The pair haven’t
seen each other in years when Green’s
terminally ill elder sister Emilie whisks
Vikander’s prickly artist Ines to a
luxurious euthanasia clinic-cum-hotel,
where she plans to end her life at the
end of six days. 2017, 15, 104MINCOMEDY DRAMA
We Bought a Zoo
C4 HD, 2.25pm/C4+1, 3.25pm 3Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOOThe story of the English journalist who
bought a rundown zoo on the edge of
Dartmoor has been transported to
southern California and given a coating
of Hollywood gloss with this feelgood
movie starring Matt Damon and Scarlett
Johansson. The film remains an engaging
tale as Damon’s widower comes upon
the ideal new home for his two children,
which just happens to have a dilapidated
zoo attached, complete with Johansson’s
head keeper. 2011, PG, 124MINFANTASY ADVENTURE
Oz the Great and Powerful
BBC2 HD, 5pm 3
Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOODirector Sam Raimi brings dash and
dazzle to a tale that shows how the Land
of Oz originally gained its wizard, with
James Franco as the rascally circus
magician who gets whisked in a hot-air
balloon from 20th-century Kansas to
the wondrous and colourful Oz. While
Raimi’s fantasy can’t match the original’s
magic, its CGI wizardry provides its own
enchantments, including a delightful
recreation of the 1939 film’s vibrant
Technicolor. 2013, PG, 130MINALSO ON SUNDAY
The Chronicles of Narnia...
Channel 5 HD, 2.40pm 4
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.Shrek
ITV2 H D, 7.10 pm 5
Say hello to the jolly green giant.Solace
Film4 HD, 9pm 3
Colin Farrrell has murder in mind.Sorry to Bother You
Sky Premiere HD, 10.20pm 4
LaKeith Stanfield talks the talk.Pimped
Sky Premiere HD, 12.20am 4
Ella Scott Lynch isn’t fair game.■ Full listings start on p43
Renée was
expecting big
changes in her lifeFantastic Beasts:
The Crimes of Grindelwald
Sky Premiere HD, 11.30am & 8pm/Sky Premiere+1, 12.30pm & 9pm;
Sky Hits HD, 2.35pm 3Sex ●●● Violence ●●● Language ●●●Eddie Redmayne’s hero Newt Scamander is back for the second episode of the
new series spun from JK Rowling’s expanding Potterverse. But as Newt andhis allies, including Katherine Waterson’s auror Tina Goldstein, confront the
dark wizard Grindelwald (Johnny Depp), the story is simply overwhelmed by
Rowling’s prodigious inventive flair. Also on Sunday-Friday. 2018, 12, 134MINFANTASY ADVENTURE
Saturday 17 August
COMEDY DRAMA
Age of Summer
Sky Premiere HD, 2pm/
Sky Premiere+1, 3pm 3
Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOOA teenage boy (Percy Hynes-White) rides
the waves of adolescence while spending
the summer of 1986 as a junior lifeguard
in California. Along the way, he falls for
Charlotte Sabina’s surfing beauty, falls
out with his geeky best friend (Jake Ryan)
and finds a strange mentor in an
eccentric local guru (Peter Stormare).
The film doesn’t add up to very much,
but it glows with radiant nostalgia. Also
on Sunday & Tuesday. 2018, 15, 85MINFANTASY ADVENTURE
Miss Peregrine’s Home
for Peculiar Children
C4 HD, 9pm/C4+1, 10pm 3
Sex OOO Violence OOO Language OOOTim Burton gets to show off his unique
visual imagination and his affinity for
misfits and outsiders with this fantasy
adventure adapted from Ransom Riggs’
young adult novel. The story finds Asa
Butterfield’s teenager arriving at a Welsh
orphanage for children with decidedly
odd powers, presided over by Eva Green’s
pipe-smoking, crossbow-wielding,
shape-shifting Miss Peregrine. Also
on 4Seven, Monday. 2016, 12, 124MINIt was now auror
never for Katherine
and Eddie
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