TV & Satellite Week – 13 July 2019

TV&Satellite Week 25

Hostiles

Sky Select HD, 10.05pm 4

Sex ●●● Violence ●●● Language ●●●

This slow burning, powerfully acted and visually stunning Western stars

Christian Bale as a hard-bitten US cavalry officer reluctantly escorting

a dying Cheyenne chief (Wes Studi) and his family from 1892 New

Mexico to their Montana homeland. The trek throws up crises and

dangers along the way, but the heart of the drama is the internal

journey taken by Bale’s laconic character, a haunted man learning to

put the violence and hatreds of the past behind him.2017, 15, 133MIN

WESTERN

Friday19 July

HISTORICAL DRAMA

The Social Network

Sky Greats HD, 8pm 5

Sex ●●● Violence ●●● Language ●●●

With stylish direction from David Fincher,

razor-sharp dialogue from Aaron Sorkin

and stellar acting from the cast, this

riveting account of the origins of Facebook

is a total triumph. Brilliantly portrayed by

Jesse Eisenberg, Facebook founder

Mark Zuckerberg goes from computer

geek to billionaire, but gets entangled in

two multi-million-dollar lawsuits with his

best friend (Andrew Garfield) and a pair

of upper-class rivals (both Armie Hammer)

along the way. 2010, 12, 120MIN

COMEDY

Step Brothers

W HD, 9pm/W+1, 10pm 4

Sex ●●● Violence ●●● Language ●●●

The excellent Will Ferrell teams up with

the even better John C Reilly for a totally

stupid, very very rude, shockingly

non-PC, but utterly compelling and

hilarious comedy about two selfish,

immature grown men who suddenly find

that they are stepbrothers. Both in their

40s and both still living at home, the

trouble begins when their single parents

(Mary Steenburgen and Richard Jenkins)

move in together, meaning the ‘boys’

have to share a room. 2008, 15, 98MIN

MUSIC DOCUMENTARY

Bros: After the

Screaming Stops

BBC4 HD, 11.30pm 4

Sex ●●● Violence ●●● Language ●●●

In their late-1980s heyday, Bros were

Britain’s biggest pop stars, but identical

twins Matt and Luke Goss fell out and

their moment in the spotlight passed.

Following the estranged siblings in the

run up to their 2017 reunion concert at

London’s O2 arena, this documentary

comes across as a real-life Spinal Tap,

thanks to the duo’s spectacularly daft

sayings. The film isn’t just very funny; it is

surprisingly touching too. 2018, 15, 97MIN

A L SO ON F R I DAY

Blade Runner 2049

Sky Sci-Fi & Horror HD, 6.15pm 5

Ryan Gosling stars in an atmospheric sequel.

Battle of the Sexes

Sky Select HD, 8pm 4

Emma and Steve are Billie Jean and Bobby.

Apollo 13

ITV4 HD, 9pm 5

Tom Hanks brings it all back home.

Moneyball

Sony Movie Channel, 9pm 4

Brad Pitt stars in a true-life baseball drama.

Overlord

Sky Premiere HD, 10.20pm 3

JJ Abrams’s war horror extravaganza.

Christian had an

inkling Rosamund

had no idea where

they were going

PAY-PER-VIEW HIGHLIGHTS

FANTASY ADVENTURE

Captain Marvel

Available from Monday 3

Sex●●● Violence ●●● Language ●●●

Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson takes on a fresh

challenge – playing Marvel’s first female superhero

to have her own solo adventure. She’s amnesiac

US air force test pilot Carol Danvers, who has

gained mighty superpowers after her DNA fused

with that of a militaristic alien race called the Kree.

Her story is set in the 1990s, which means some

nifty VFX de-ageing to allow Samuel L Jackson to

co-star as the younger Nick Fury. 2019, 12, 124MIN

PREMIERE

ON-DEMAND HIGHLIGHTS

Brie hated the way

jet blast always

ruined her cut

The pick of the

week’s films on

Sky, Virgin &

other platforms

The Aftermath

4

Keira Knightley’s grieving mother

travels to occupied Hamburg in

1946 to join her husband Lewis

(Jason Clarke), a British colonel.

Still raw from the loss of her son,

she is unhappy when Lewis

shares his requisitioned home

with its owner (Alexander

Skarsgård). The two damaged

souls find common ground and

a compelling romance unfolds.

15, 109MIN

Border

4

PREMIERE(Available from Mon)

Swedish customs guard Tina

(Eva Melander) has an uncanny

ability to sniff out contraband..

Her unconventional appearance

makes her an outsider but she

is drafted by the police to track

down a paedophile ring.

Meanwhile, she is drawn to the

similarly odd-looking Vore (Eero

Milonoff), leading to a bizarre

romance. This offbeat Swedish

movie is always gripping.

Subtitled. 15 , 110MIN

Captain Marvel

3

PREMIERE(Available from Mon)

See review, above. 12, 124MIN

Fighting with

My Family

4

Director Stephen Merchant pins us

to the mat with a big-hearted

true-story comedy about wrestling

star Paige and her extraordinary

grappling-mad Norwich family.

Florence Pugh is a knockout as the

self-doubting heroine, and so are

Nick Frost and Lena Headey as her

eccentric parents. Dwayne ‘The

Rock’ Johnson cameos as himself,

adding another splash of larger-

than-life colour to a rowdy tale of

underdog triumph. 12, 108MIN

Five Feet Apart

3

PREMIERE(Available from Mon)

This romantic drama has doomed

lovers Haley Lu Richardson and

Cole Sprouse falling for each

other. But their meet-cute is in

hospital – they’re both cystic

fibrosis patients and living on

borrowed air. The fetching leads

look a little too healthy for CF

sufferers, but they are more

than engaging enough to tug the

heartstrings of the film’s target

audience.12, 116MIN

Green Book

4

A Driving Miss Daisy with the

races reversed, this fact-based

culture-clash comedy sees

Viggo Mortensen in the driver’s

seat and Mahershala Ali as his

passenger. It is 1962 and Ali’s

African-American classical

pianist Don Shirley needs

Mortensen’s tough bouncer to

chauffeur him around a concert

tour of America’s segregated

Deep South. 12, 129MIN

The Kindergarten

Teacher

4

Maggie Gyllenhaal is in A-plus

form as the frustrated teacher of

the title in this compelling drama,

writer-director Sara Colangelo’s

sensitive US remake of a 2014

Israeli film. Dissatisfied with her

life, she convinces herself that a

five-year-old pupil (Parker Sevak)

is a poetic genius. The film is

intriguing, thought provoking

and, by the end, surprisingly

suspenseful, too. 12, 97MIN

John McEnroe: In the

Realm of Perfection

4

This absorbing cinematic essay

serves plenty of topspin and

slice. Focusing on John McEnroe,

then at the peak of his career,

as he takes on Ivan Lendl in the

final of the French Open in

1984, director Julien Faraut’s

film is a fascinating, surprisingly

gripping reflection on sport and

psychology. 12, 95MIN

Miss Bala

2

PREMIERE(Available from Mon)

A Mexican-American makeup

artist (Gina Rodriguez) travels

south of the US border to help

her best friend enter a beauty

pageant, only to find herself

caught between a deadly drug

cartel, corrupt local police and

ruthless US agents. This remake

of Mexican director Gerardo

Naranjo’s gritty 2011 thriller is

a far blander affair, and making

the heroine a gringa instead of

a Mexican takes the sting out of

the story. 15 , 104MIN

A Private War

4

This heart-rending biopic sees

Rosamund Pike donning the

iconic eye patch of Sunday

Times war correspondent Marie

Colvin, who was killed in 2012

while reporting from Syria. And

Pike is terrific as the complex,

compassionate, fearlessly driven

American who lived the high life

in London when off duty but

threw herself into front-line

dangers in her work. 15, 110MIN

Ray & Liz

4

Reality TV star Deirdre Kelly from

Benefits Street and Celebrity Big

Brother makes her acting debut

in this fly-on-the-wall drama

inspired by photographer Richard

Billingham’s feckless parents,

alcoholic dad Ray and chain-

smoking mum Liz (Kelly plays the

older Liz). Always slow-moving,

Ray & Liz won’t give you the quick

fix of reality TV but its warmth

and sympathy lingers in the

■ Full listings start on p93 memory far longer. 15, 108MIN

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