Films This week’s
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Apollo 13
ITV 1.50pm - 4.30pm ★★★★
● See Our Picks of the Week, p28Terminator Genisys
C4 10.05pm - 12.30am ★★★
SCI-FI ADVENTURE
While no rival for the best of the
Terminator films, this sequel-cum-
reboot, which spins together threads
from the previous movies, is by no
means as deficient as you may have
been led to believe. His human
surface wearing out, Arnold
Schwarzenegger’s cyborg is back,
this time the good guy, sworn to
protect Sarah Connor, played as a
feisty kick-ass heroine by Game of
Thrones’ Emilia Clarke. Sadly, Jason
Clarke (as John Connor) and Jai
Courtney (as Kyle Reese) fail to
engage us with their bland
characters. Dir: Alan Taylor 2015, 12, 145min
SEX ) VIOLENCE! LANGUAGE!BEST OF THE REST
The Way
AMC 6.40pm - 9.00pm ★★★
Satellite DRAMAEmilio
Estevez directs his father Martin
Sheen in a road movie that plays like
an episodic travelogue. Sheen plays an
American who travels to Spain to
collect the ashes of his estranged son,
who has died in a walking accident in
the Pyrenees. He sets out to complete
his son’s journey and, en route, falls in
with a motley bunch of fellow
pilgrims, played by James Nesbitt,
Deborah Kara Unger and Yorick van
Wageningen. Dir: Emilio Estevez 2010, 12, 140min
SEX ) VIOLENCE ) LANGUAGE!Just Like Heaven
Paramount
7.05pm - 9.00pm ★★★
ROMCOMGrief-stricken young
widower Mark Ruffalo moves into a
fabulous new apartment inhabited bythe spirit of its former tenant,
doctor Reese Witherspoon, who
was involved in a car crash and
only he can see. The heavenly
performances of the twinkling stars
are the making of this sweet and
charming fantasy romcom that wears
its warm heart on its sleeve, while
delivering a lot of good-natured
laughs. Dir: Mark S Waters 2005, PG, 115min
SEX ) VIOLENCE ) LANGUAGE )World War Z
Film 4 9.00pm - 11.15pm ★★★★
HORROR THRILLER
Breaking from horror tradition,
the zombies in this apocalyptic
sci-fi-chiller move at breakneck
speed rather than the usual living-
dead shuffle. Brad Pitt’s UN
investigator is no slouch either and
he is soon looking for answers to the
plague, a mission that takes him to
South Korea, Israel and Wales.
Delivering pulse-pounding
excitement, director Marc Forster
stages the action with a thrilling
urgency and the scenes of carnage are
truly terrifying. Dir: Marc Forster 2013, 15, 135min
SEX ) VIOLENCE @ LANGUAGE!Lizzie
Sky Cinema Premiere
10.00pm - 11.50pm ★★★★
Satellite PREMIERE PERIOD
THRILLERHear the name
Lizzie Borden and that macabre
rhyme about the axe and the whacks
probably comes to mind. Did this
young woman, an heiress in 18 9 0s
New England, really murder her
father and stepmother? This
intriguing, slow-burning drama
presents a shocking solution to the
mystery and boasts compelling turns
from Chloë Sevigny as Lizzie and
Kristen Stewart as the maid who
becomes her ally and intimate friend.
Dir: Craig William Macneill 2018, 15, 110min
SEX @ VIOLENCE @ LANGUAGE @A Deadly Vendetta
Channel 5 2.15pm - 4.00pm ★
PREMIERE THRILLERThis
stupendously silly thriller sees Sarah
Grey’s new high-school student
bump up against a vicious football
coach in the shape of Christina Cox
who has a serious chip on her
shoulder. It’s dumb-as-a-rock stuff.
Dir: Max McGuire 2018, 12, 105min
SEX ) VIOLENCE ) LANGUAGE )Wild Card
Channel 5 11.35pm - 1.30am ★★★
ACTION THRILLER Jason
Statham helps a friend exact revenge
on rapist gangster Milo Ventimiglia.
Statham dishes out the impressively
choreographed violence with his usual
brio. Dir: Simon West 2015, 15, 115min
SEX! VIOLENCE @ LANGUAGE (Sherlock Holmes and
the Secret Weapon
C4 3.40am - 4.50am ★★★
MYSTERY Here’s a ripping yarn
as Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and
Watson (Nigel Bruce) battle arch
enemy Moriarty (Lionel Atwill), who
has joined forces with the Nazis to
bring terror and destruction to
England. Dir: Roy William Neill 1942, PG, 70min
SEX ) VIOLENCE ) LANGUAGE )BEST OF THE REST
Killing Them Softly
Film 4 11.15pm - 1.10am ★★★★
THRILLERBrad Pitt discovers
his dark side in this savagely violent
and, at times, savagely funny crime
thriller, playing a workmanlike
Mob enforcer who is hired to clean
up the mess when two gormless
crooks knock off a Mafia-protected
poker game. This is a tremendous
thriller bristling with tension,
snappy dialogue and black humour.
Dir: Andrew Dominik 2012, 18, 115min
SEX @ VIOLENCE £ LANGUAGE £Killer in Law
Channel 5 2.15pm - 4.00pm ★★
PREMIERE THRILLERKelly
Sullivan is blissfully married with a
small daughter. So when she invites
her mother-in-law (Nana Visitor) to
live with them, she never suspects
the old dear is a psychotic mess who
intends to kidnap her little girl.
Except that this is a stock TV movie
thriller so this kind of nonsense is
exactly what you should expect.
Dir: Danny J Boyle 2019, PG, 105min
SEX ) VIOLENCE ) LANGUAGE )BEST OF THE REST
Cinderella Man
Sony Movie Channel
6.05pm - 9.00pm ★★★★
PERIOD DRAMABoxer
James J Braddock was a real-life
Rocky who brought hope and
inspiration to Depression-hit
Americans in the early 1 9 30s. Russell
Crowe as Braddock and Renée
Zellweger as his loyal wife, Mae,
deliver knockout performances in this
brilliant, moving sports biopic, tracing
Braddock’s riches-to-rags-to-riches
career. Dir: Ron Howard 2005, 12, 175min
SEX ) VIOLENCE! LANGUAGE!Patriots Day
Film 4 9.00pm - 11.40pm ★★★★
CRIME DRAMAThis is a
riveting account of the terrorist
attack on the 2013 Boston Marathon
that killed three people and injured
several hundred others. The movie
follows the events leading up to the
bombing and the massive manhunt
that followed and, although Mark
Wahlberg’s dogged Boston cop is
fictional, the likes of John Goodman,
JK Simmons and Kevin Bacon play
some of the actual politicians,
policemen and FBI officers who were
involved. Dir: Peter Berg 2016, 15, 160min
SEX ) VIOLENCE @ LANGUAGE @
30 TV TIMESRay Liotta in
Killing Them SoftlyRussell Crowe and
Renée Zellweger
in Cinderella ManEmilia Clarke and Arnold
Schwarzenegger in
Terminator Genisys