TV Times – 13 July 2019

OUR PICKS OF THE WEEK

Films

Overlord

Sky Cinema Premiere

10.20pm - 12.20am HHHH

SatellitePREMIEREHORROR⊲

On the eve of D-Day, a band of US

paratroopers – including Jovan

Adepo, Wyatt Russell (son of Kurt

and Goldie Hawn) and Dominic

Applewhite – are on a mission to

destroy a German radio tower atop

an old church in a small Normandy

town. Beneath the church, however,

is a secret laboratory where an evil

Nazi scientist is hard at work at grisly

experiments... If you’re in the mood

for some down-and-dirty

exploitation movie fun, this is a

literal blast. Dir: Julius Avery 2018, 18, 120min

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McFarland, USA

BBC2 3.30pm - 5.35pm HHH

SPORTS DRAMA⊲Kevin

Costner is in his element as the

gruff sports coach who leads a

bunch of scrappy underdogs to

unlikely triumph in this stirring

sports drama set in 1987, and based

on a true story. Fired from his job at

an Idaho high school, Costner

reluctantly takes a position in a

hardscrabble Southern California

town whose residents are almost

exclusively poor and Hispanic.

Inspired by the endurance they show

running to and from the fields where

they work before and after school

alongside their families, he decides

to form a seven-strong cross-

country running team (including

Carlos Pratts) and take on teams

from wealthier schools across the

state... Dir: Niki Caro 2015, PG, 125min

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Sicario

Film4 9.00pm - 11.25pm HHHH

CRIME THRILLER⊲Emily

Blunt is brilliant as a doggedly

upright yet vulnerable FBI agent

whose eyes are opened to the murky

realities of the war on drugs in this

queasily gripping thriller. She joins a

task force led by Josh Brolin’s

deceptively laid-back agent,

blurring ethical lines as they

criss-cross the US-Mexico border.

The film’s sense of dread and unease

keeps us on edge throughout.

Dir: Denis Villeneuve 2015, 15, 145min

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Star Wars: Episode IV

• A New Hope

ITV 1.30pm - 4.00pm HHHHH

SCI-FI⊲The original opening chapter of George

Lucas’s epic space saga is still exhilarating. Mark

Hamill is just right as farm boy Luke Skywalker,

who’s joined by Harrison Ford’s Han Solo on a

daring interplanetary mission to rescue captive

Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and defeat an evil

empire. With monsters, robots and battles galore,

it’s irresistible. Dir: George Lucas 1977, U, 150min

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SATU R DAY

S U N DAY

MONDAY FRIDAY

In trouble: Adepo

and Applewhite

Pensive:

Blunt

Bonding: Pratts

and Costner

So debonair:

Lively and

Kendrick

The gang’s all

here: Hamill,

Fisher and Ford

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WEEK

A Simple

Favour

Netflix HHHH

PREMIERETHRILLER⊲ Bridesmaids

director Paul Feig heads into Gone Girl

territory for this chic mystery starring Anna

Kendrick and Blake Lively but his comic snap

is still very much in evidence. Kendrick is a

hoot as a nerdy mommy blogger and Lively

oozes drop-dead cool as her glamorous ‘best’

friend, whose sudden disappearance from

their small Connecticut town turns Kendrick

into an unlikely amateur sleuth. The film drips

with deadpan hilarity. And when Lively goes

missing - which is as much a puzzle to her

handsome author husband (Crazy Rich Asians

star Henry Golding) as it is to Kendrick – the

story keeps us on the hook with its unexpected

twists and turns. Dir: Paul Feig 2018, 15, 117min

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