TV & Satellite Week – 13 July 2019

20 TV&Satellite Week

Comedy Drama Sci Fi & Horror Thriller

20 TV&Satellite Week

FilmFinder The best of the week at a glance

Films may be edited for television. The running times given are those of the original cinema releases.

PREMIERE

EDITOR’S CHOICE

Cats 3

Saturday,SkyPremiereHD,4.15pm/

SkyPremiere+1,5.15pm

Lazy cat Blanket and his avian pal set

off from their high-rise home in search

of his headstrong son in this Chinese

animated movie. 2018, PG, 104MIN

Hollywood Homicide 3

Saturday,AMCHD,9pm

Harrison Ford’s grumpy performance

as an LAPD detective juggling a second

career as an estate agent (with Josh

Hartnett as his dopey parther) carries this

amiable comedy thriller. 2003, 12, 116MIN

The Social Network 5

Sunday,SkySelectHD,8pm

Directed by David Fincher, this is an

absorbing account of the rise of

Facebook with a great performance

from Jesse Eisenberg as its founder,

Mark Zuckerberg. 2010, 12, 120MIN

Joy Ride 4

Saturday,Horror,10.55pm/

Horror+1,11.55pm

Travelling companions Paul Walker,

Leelee Sobieski and Steve Zahn fall prey

to a psychotic truck-driver in a scarily

effective road movie. 2001, 15, 96MIN

Hail, Caesar! 4

Monday,Film4H D,6 .50pm/

Film4+1,7.50pmHD

The Coen brothers’ wacky Tinseltown

comedy stars George Clooney as a dim

movie star and Josh Brolin as a frazzled

studio fixer. 2016, 12, 106MIN

Skyscraper 3

Monday,SkyActionHD,10pm

In this vertiginous thriller, former FBI

agent Dwayne Johnson has to clear his

name, nab the bad guys and rescue his

family after a high-rise goes up in flames,

leaving him in the frame. 2018, 12, 102MIN

Lawless 4

Sunday,Film4H D,10.50 pm/

Film4+1,11.50pm

Set in Prohibition-era Virginia, this

classy gangster story boasts powerful

turns from Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy

and Mia Wasikowska. 2012, 18, 116MIN

Elysium 4

Wednesday,SyfyHD,9pm/Syfy+1,10pm

Hugely expensive – and it shows – this

futuristic thriller stars Matt Damon as a

downtrodden worker who takes on the

elite powers who rule the Earth from an

orbiting paradise. 2013, 15, 109MIN

My Super

Ex-Girlfriend 3

Tuesday,UniversalHD,9pm/

U n i ve rs a l+1,10 p m

Breaking up is hard to do in this affable

fantasy comedy that stars Luke Wilson

and Uma Thurman. 2006, 12, 96MIN

The Warriors 3

Monday,SkyGreatsH D,10 pm

The plot is patently absurd, but this

enjoyable epic saga set in the world of

New York street gangs caused much

consternation in the city’s media on its

cinema release. 1979, 15, 94MIN

The Missing 4

M o n d a y, A M C H D , 11. 5 5 p m

Inspired by The Searchers, director Ron

Howard’s brooding Western stars Cate

Blanchett as a frontierswoman whose

daughter has been abducted by slave

traders. 2003, 15, 137MIN

Battle of the Sexes 4

Friday,SkySelectH D,8pm

Emma Stone and Steve Carell star in a

witty, charming, terrifically entertaining

recreation of the showdown between

tennis stars Billie Jean King and Bobby

Riggs in 1973. 2017, 12, 121MIN

The Corruptor 3

W e d n e s d a y, TC M H D , 11.10 p m / 

TC M +1,12 .10 a m

Mark Wahlberg platys an enthusiastic

but troubled New York cop assigned to

Chinatown in a tightly executed but slow-

burning crime thriller. 1999, 18, 110MIN

Tully 4

Thursday,SkyDramaHD,8pm

Collapsing under the pressures of

motherhood, Charlize Theron’s

desperate housewife finds salvation in

the form of Mackenzie Davis’s nanny in

this insightful story. 2018, 15, 96MIN

Blade Runner

2049 5

Friday,SkySci-Fi&HorrrorHD,6.15pm

A magnificent sequel to Ridley Scott’s

iconic 1982 sci-fi masterpiece Blade

Runner from Arrival director Denis

Villeneuve. Set 30 years after the

original, the film’s new hero, Ryan

Gosling’s replicant ‘K’, teams up with

Harrison Ford’s grizzled and weary

Deckard in a reprise of his iconic role.

The dystopian future world conjured

up by Roger Deakins’ Oscar-winning

photography is stunning and

haunting. 2017, 15, 163MIN