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YOUR UNIQUE AT-A-GLANCE GUIDE TO THE WEEK’S BIG FILMS FILMWEEK
C4 Premiere
Big Hero 6 ★★★★
2.00pm-3.30pm BBC1
A delightfully warmhearted
and humorous animation.
Lovable robot Baymax
(voiced by Scott Adsit) is
the ‘personal health care
companion’ to teen tech
prodigy Hiro (Ryan
Potter). They both
get to play heroes
when a villain runs
amok. (2014; Cert PG).Apollo 13 ★★★★
1.50pm-4.30pm ITV
Director Ron Howard’s film of
the ill-fated 1970 lunar mission
is a real nail-biter as it focuses
on the courage of stricken
astronauts Tom Ha nks, Bill
Paxton and Kevin Bacon.
They are excellent, as
are Ed Harris and
Gary Sinise as the
men at mission
control. (1995; Cert PG).X-Men ★★★★
7.0 0 p m-9.00pm Film 4
Patrick Stewart’s superhero
mutants Wolverine (Hugh
Jackman), Cyclops (James
Marsden), Rogue (Anna
Paquin) and Storm (Halle
Berry) use their powers for
good, but rival Ian
McKellen’s rebels
aim to rule the world
in this X-hilarating
fantasy. (2000; Cert 12).Schindler’s List
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9.55pm-1.05am Channel 5
In World War Two Poland,
businessman Oskar Schindler
(Liam Neeson) influences the
Nazis to save more than 1000
of his Polish-Jewish workers.
Director Steven Spielberg’s
extraordinary
testament and
memorial to the
Holocaust won seven
Oscars. (1993; Cert 15).World War Z ★★★★
9.00pm-11.15pm Film 4
Ex-United Nations agent Brad
Pitt and his family run for
their lives as killer zombies
overrun Philadelphia – and the
world... The characters are
stereotypes and the messy
plot departs from
Max Brooks’ novel,
but the pulse-racing
action is brilliantly
staged. (2013; Cert 15).{{{{{{LanguageViolenceSex{{{●●●●{{LanguageViolenceSex●{{{{{{{{LanguageViolenceSex{{{●●{{{{LanguageViolenceSex●{{●{{{{{LanguageViolenceSex{{{Bridget Jones: ★★★
The Edge of Reason
10.35pm-12. 3 0 a m IT V
More amusing calamities
await Renée Zellweger’s
endearing Bridget, while
Hugh Grant and Colin
Firth twinkle in support.
Here, she goes to
Thailand on a TV
assignment with
Grant – and ends up
in jail. (2004; Cert 15).Just Like Heaven ★★★
7.0 5 p m-9.00pm Paramount Ntwk
Reese Witherspoon is
teamed with the equally
charming Mark Ruffalo in an
amiable romcom with a twist.
Witherspoon is a workaholic
doctor who’s in a road
accident and Ruffalo
is the guy who rents
her flat – then realises
that she’s haunting
it! (2005; Cert PG).Terminator ★★★
Genisys
10.05pm-12. 3 0 a m C 4
In this messy but inventive
reboot of 1984’s Terminator,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
enjoys spouting self-mocking
lines (‘I’m old, not obsolete’),
while helping Emilia
Clarke’s feisty Sarah
Connor and Jason
Clarke’s glum John
Connor. (2015; Cert 12).Hollow Man ★★★
9.00pm-11.15pm Paramount Ntwk
Scientist Kevin Bacon and
his team (among them Josh
Brolin and Elisabeth Shue)
invent an invisibility formula.
But when Bacon tests it on
himself, he turns into a nasty
piece of work...
Bacon is good in this
tense, clever sci-fi
with an edge-of-seat
climax. (2000; Cert 18).Captain America: ★★★★
The First Avenger
8.00pm-1 0. 2 0 p m IT V
In his first outing as Captain
America, Chris Evans proves
his worth in a nifty fantasy
set during World War Two.
Thanks to Stanley Tucci’s
experimental serum,
he’s transformed
from puny also-ran
to pumped-up
hero. (2011; Cert 12).●●●●{{LanguageViolenceSex●●{●{{{{{LanguageViolenceSex●{{{{{{{{LanguageViolenceSex{{{{{{●{{LanguageViolenceSex●●{●{{{{{LanguageViolenceSex{{{Transformers: ★★
The Last Knight
9.00pm-12.00m’t C4
The fifth of Michael Bay’s
Tr ansformer s films is totally
daft, jumbling up Arthurian
legend, interplanetary quests
and shape-changing robots.
Mark Wahlberg is
back and Anthony
Hopkins pops up
among all the noisy
action. (2017; Cert 12).The Drop ★★★★
12.00m’t-1 .5 5 a m C 4
Tom Ha r d y commands the
screen as an enigmatic
bartender drawn into
the life of Noomi
Rapace and her dog
in this enthralling
thriller. (2014; Cert 15).Rock of Ages ★★
7.4 0 p m-1 0.0 0 p m IT V 2
This adaptation of the hit
stage musical has a ho-hum
boy-meets-girl plot involving
Julianne Hough and Diego
Boneta. But Tom Cruise as
a boozy rock god, Catherine
Zeta-Jones as a
moral campaigner
and Alec Baldwin as
a manager are huge
fun. (2012; Cert 12).The Impossible ★★★★
11.15pm-1. 2 5 a m Fi l m 4
Naomi Watts and Ewan
McGregor star in this gripping
true-life survival
story set during the
devastating 2004
Indian Ocean
tsunami. (2012; Cert 12).Patriots Day ★★★★
9.00pm-11 .4 0 p m Fi l m 4
Mark Wahlberg is excellent
as a fictional salt-of-the-earth
cop in this compelling
account of the
terrorist attack on the
Boston marathon in- (2016; Cert 15).
TOP PICK
Pirates of the ★★★★
Caribbean: On Stranger Tides^
6.30pm-8.40pm BBC1 See p30.
TOP PICK
Cinderella Man ★★★★
6.05pm-9.00pm Sony Movies
See page 30 for review.TOP PICK F4 PREMIERE
A Dog’s Purpose ★★★
2.45pm-4.45pm Film 4
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