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Dream House,
Nightmare Neighbour
Channel 5 2.15pm - 4.00pm ★★
THRILLER Clare Kramer, Tilky
Jones and their kid move from New
Yo rk to the LA suburbs, only to have
problems with their dream house.
Like Kramer finding another
woman’s lingerie in her bedroom.
She kicks out husband Jones, but has
he been set up? If you don’t know the
answer, you haven’t being paying
attention to the plots of these cheesy
TV movies. Dir: Sam Irvin 2016, 15, 105min
SEX ) VIOLENCE ) LANGUAGE )Trance
C4 1.30am - 3.10am ★★★
CRIME THRILLER A tale
involving art theft and betrayal,
amnesia and hypnosis, Danny Boyle’s
glossy thriller is dazzling to look at
and has a plot that’s even more
tangled than a game of Twister. James
McAvoy’s slick London auctioneer,
Vincent Cassel’s ruthless French crook
and Rosario Dawson’s sultry
hypnotherapist are the ones getting
tied up in knots, and the film’s devious
mind games are increasingly head-
spinning. Dir: Danny Boyle 2013, 15, 100min
SEX @ VIOLENCE @ LANGUAGE @BEST OF THE REST
Ruth & Alex
Sony Movie Channel
4.30pm - 6.20pm ★★★
COMEDY DRAMA
Diane Keaton and Morgan
Freeman’s dependable screen
charisma props up this tale of a
long-married couple sent into a flap
by the prospect of moving out of the
fifth-floor Brooklyn apartment that
has been their home for the past 40
years. Not much happens, but
Keaton and Freeman are engaging
company. Dir: Richard Loncraine 2014, 12, 110min
SEX ) VIOLENCE ) LANGUAGE!Lust for Murder
Channel 5 2.15pm - 4.00pm ★★
THRILLER Teen Evanne
Friedmann loves playing football
almost as much as she loves her
football coach, Jason-Shane Scott.
He’s not interested and tries to let
her down gently, but she’s willing to
go that extra mile to get them
together, including stripping off
when they’re alone or murdering
her ex-boyfriend... Gritty realism
this is not, but it’s passable enough.
Dir: David DeCoteau 2017, 12, 105min
SEX ) VIOLENCE ) LANGUAGE )Dirty Dancing
Channel 5 10.20pm - 12.25am ★★★
See Sunday for review.Lethal Weapon 4
ITV 10.45pm - 12.55am ★★★
ACTION THRILLER For the
final time, Mel Gibson and Danny
Glover are together again for more
fast talking and a decent storyline
about Triad killers from Hong Kong.
There are explosive action scenes
and a menacing villain in martial
arts star Jet Li as the smiling
assassin-in-chief. The tone’s enjoyably
light and the action hits the target.
Dir: Richard Donner 1998, 15, 130min
SEX ) VIOLENCE @ LANGUAGE @A Most Violent Year
BBC2 11.35pm - 1.35am ★★★★★
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BBC1 (not Wales or N Ireland)
12.15am - 2.00am ★★★★
See Saturday for review.The Haunting
C4 1.00am - 2.50am ★★
CHILLER Director Jan De Bont
had a hard act to follow with this
remake of the classic 1963 chiller, both
based on Shirley Jackson’s novel The
Haunting of Hill House (recentlyrebooted into a fine Netflix series), but
even that can’t excuse this witless
farrago. All of the story’s psychological
subtleties are spelled o ut for the
audience, and each supernatural
manifestation is accompanied by a
barrage of ridiculous special effects.
Dir: Jan De Bont 1999, 12, 110min
SEX ) VIOLENCE! LANGUAGE!BEST OF THE REST
Spider-Man:
Into the Spider-Verse
Sky Cinema Premiere
8.00pm - 10.00pm ★★★★★
● See Our Picks of the Week, p28The Big Lebowski
TCM 9.00pm - 11.25pm ★★★★★
Satellite COMEDY This
goofy comedy from film-makers
Joel and Ethan Coen is gloriously
entertaining. It’s almost indescribably
complicated – suffice it to say that
Jeff Bridges plays a perpetually
stoned layabout who gets mistaken
for a crime lord – but it is populated
by a colourful roster of dropouts and
lunatics. Most memorable of these is
John Turturro as a repulsive tenpin
bowler with a taste for purple
jumpsuits. Dir: Joel Coen 1998, 18, 145min
SEX! VIOLENCE @ LANGUAGE @Girl, Interrupted
Sony Movie Channel
9.00pm - 11.30pm ★★★
DRAMASuffering from
‘borderline personality disorder’,
confused teenager Winona Ryder
struggles to cope with life in a private
mental hospital in 1968. At first, the
movie seems too cosy for its own good,
but Ryder’s growing friendship with
the ward’s most confident character
(Angelina Jolie, in an Oscar-winning
turn) gradually goes sour in shocking
style. It’s surprisingly persuasive.
Dir: James Mangold 1999, 15, 150min
SEX ) VIOLENCE @ LANGUAGE @I Didn’t Kill My Sister
Channel 5 2.15pm - 4.00pm ★★
THRILLER Nicholle Tom is the
prime suspect in the murder of her
newsreader sister Gina Holden.
Surely she isn’t being framed? An
absolutely typical TV movie thriller.
Dir: Jason Bourque 2015, PG, 105min
SEX ) VIOLENCE ) LANGUAGE )BEST OF THE REST
Lady Bird
Sky Cinema Drama
8.00pm - 9.40pm ★★★★★
Satellite COMEDY DRAMA
Saoirse Ronan is equal parts
endearing and annoying as a snarky
but vulnerable 17-year-old who longs
to escape from her dull suburban roots
and go to college in this beguiling
coming-of-age comedy from indie
queen-turned-first-time director
Greta Gerwig. Set in 2002, the film
revolves around the heroine’s prickly
love-hate relationship with her mother
(Laurie Metcalf ). It is whip-smart,
achingly honest, and piercingly funny.
Dir: Greta Gerwig 2017, 15, 100min
SEX @ VIOLENCE ) LANGUAGE £Phone Booth
Syfy 10.00pm - 12m’t ★★★★
Satellite THRILLERThis
claustrophobic thriller is worthy of
Hitchcock: a self-centred
entertainment publicist (Colin
Farrell) intercepts a call in a New
Yo rk phone booth and finds himself
playing lethal mind games with a
sniper who has him in his sights. It
shouldn’t take you too l ong to
identify the disembodied voice of the
mysterious gunman, but what keeps
you on a knife edge is the razor-sharp
dialogue, bravura plot twists and Joel
Schumacher’s uncluttered direction.
Dir: Joel Schumacher 2002, 15, 120min
SEX ) VIOLENCE @ LANGUAGE @Saoirse Ronan
in Lady BirdRosario Dawson
in TranceWinona Ryder in
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