TV & Satellite Week – 03 August 2019

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Russia’s selection for 2018’s best foreign

language film Oscar, this World War Two

drama tells the true story of the mass escape

in 1943 by nearly 300 Jews from one of the

Third Reich’s most notorious death camps.

Konstantin Khabensky plays the Russian

prisoner of war who leads the revolt – the

part previously played by Rutger Hauer in

the 1987 British TV movie about the same

events. Subtitled. 2018, 15, 112MIN

A plucky kid in middle

America (Kyler Beck)

strives to keep a newly

hatched dinosaur out of the

hands of a dastardly English

scientist (David Fletcher-

Hall) with help from a

wild-haired, whimsical

stranger (Ben Hall).

Although unsuspecting

viewers may perk up at the

word ‘Jurassic’ in the title,

be warned: this cheapskate

family adventure boasts

terrible acting, terrible

directing, terrible

everything. 2018, U, 84MIN

Wreck-It Ralph, the video-game bad

guy who is really a softy at heart,

returns in this highly enjoyable

sequel to Disney’s jaunty Oscar-

nominated 2012 animated fantasy.

This time, big lug Ralph (again

voiced by John C Reilly) and best

friend Vanellope von Schweetz (a

squeaky Sarah Silverman) leave their

arcade home in search of a spare

steering wheel to fix Vanellope’s

cart-racing game, Sugar Rush. Their

quest takes them into the baffling

realm of the internet...

The ensuing adventures are

stuffed to bursting with whizz-bang

thrills, dazzling visuals and reams of

pop-culture in-jokes (look out for

the Disney Princesses), and some

touching insights into the nature

of friendship. 2018, PG, 112MIN

A bizarre coming-of-age comedy about

an 18-year-old (Nick Robinson) with

a heart ailment (paroxysmal atrial

tachycardia) who shuns any form

of excitement that might trigger his

condition. Then he encounters Rosario

Dawson’s ex-hooker-stripper-junkie-

alcoholic and falls for her at first sight...

The resulting farce is overcooked and

messy, but the cast give it charm and

brio all the same. 2016, 15, 95MIN

WAR DRAMA

Escape from Sobibor

Wednesday, Sky Premiere HD, 10pm 3

CHILDREN’S ADVENTURE

The Adventures

of Jurassic Pet

Tuesday, Sky Premiere HD,

9.50am & 6.30pm 1

ANIMATED COMEDY

Ralph Breaks the Internet

Saturday, Sky Premiere HD, 10am & 6pm;

Sky Disney HD, 12.10pm & 8pm 4

COMEDY DRAMA

Drunk on Love

Monday, Sky Premiere HD,

10.20am & 10pm 3

ROMANTIC COMEDY

Boogie Man

Thursday, Sky Premiere HD,

2.45pm & 9.50pm 3

SCI-FI COMEDY

Iron Sky: The

Coming Race

Sunday, Sky Premiere HD,

11.15am & 10pm 1

Sometimes,

the only way

was out

Things were

ticking over

nicely for Nick

Vanellope

steered Ralph

in the right

direction

Khush Khanna’s dreamy

London teenager is far more

interested in the glitz and

glamour of 1970s-era disco

than he is in his British-

Asian family’s Indian

heritage, and when he

develops a crush on Jerry-

Jane Pears model-actress ,

his Saturday Night Fever

fantasies go into overdrive.

The script of this British

comedy is all over the place,

but it has a breezy good

humour. 2017, 15, 99MIN

This sequel to 2012’s

berserk Nazis-on-the-

moon sci-fi action comedy

Iron Sky is even more of a

mess than its predecessor.

The baddies are a

shape-shifting reptilian race

that has adopted human

guise as evil world leaders

throughout history, plus

tech giants Steve Jobs and

Mark Zuckerberg. Sadly, the

satire is very clunky and the

action and effects pretty

ropey. 2019, 15, 89MIN

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