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Miss Peregrine’s Home
for Peculiar Children 3
Saturday, C4 HD, 9pm/C4+1, 10pm
Tim Burton brings all his imaginative
powers to bear on this colour ful fantasy
starring Asa Butterfield, Eva Green and
Samuel L Jackson. 2016, 12, 124MINDistrict 9 4
Monday, Sky Greats HD, 9.45pm
Set in an extraterrestrial shanty town in
Johannesburg, this gripping thriller stars
Sharlto Copley as a bureaucrat who is
infected with an alien virus and forced
to g o on the run. 2009, 15, 112MINLizzie 4
Saturday, Sky Premiere H D, 10.20 pm/
Sky Premiere+1, 11.20pm
Chloë Sevigny and Kristen Stewart star
in an absorbing portrait of Lizzie Borden,
the reputed axe murderess celebrated
in American folklore. 2018, 15, 105MINFast & Furious 8 3
Saturday, ITV HD, 9pm/ITV+1, 10pm
Charlize Theron plays a new villain, but
Helen Mirren is the unlikely addition to
the cast, as Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson
and Jason Statham get their motors
running yet again. 2017, 12, 133MINThe Boxtrolls 4
Tuesday, Film4 HD, 12.35pm/
Film4+1, 1.35pm
There is a deliciously dark Dickensian
undertone to this quirky animated fable
about a put-upon population of
subterranean folk. 2014, PG, 97MINThe Innocents 5
Thursday, Talking Pictures, 11pm
Still the finest adaptation of Henry
James’ ghost story The Turn of the Screw,
with Deborah Kerr in brilliant form as a
jittery governess who believes her two
charges are possessed. 1961, 12, 100MINQuartet 4
Saturday, BBC2 HD, 11pm
Dustin Hoffman turns director for a
heart-warming tale of four former opera
singers (Pauline Collins, Maggie Smith,
Tom Courtenay and Billy Connolly) who
decide to put on a show. 2012, 12, 98MINThe Taking of Pelham
One Two Three 4
Thursday, TCM HD, 11.30pm/
TCM+1, 12.30am
Robert Shaw stars in a nail-biting tale
about a ruthless gang who hijack a New
York subway train. 1974, 15, 104MINHoney, I Shrunk
the Kids 4
Tuesday, Sky Greats HD, 2.20pm
Rick Moranis’s absent-minded
professor accidentally miniaturises his
children in a spectacular and very funny
fantasy adventure. 1989, U, 93MINThe Innkeepers 3
Thursday, Horror, 9pm/Horror+1, 10pm
Sara Paxton and Pat Healy’s bored
young desk clerks have a shocking time
in a gory ghost story about a rundown
hotel that harbours unwelcome guests in
the form of three ghosts. 2011, 15, 101MINThe Simpsons
Movie 5
Wednesday, Film4 HD, 4.50pm/
Film4+1, 5.50pm
American television’s favourite family
makes a triumphant transition to
feature-length film. 2007, PG, 87MINPercy Jackson:
Sea of Monsters 3
Friday, Film4 HD, 4.45pm/
Film4+1, 5.45pm
The second adventure for the student
son of a Greek god finds him searching
for the Golden Fleece. 2013, PG, 106MINAll Cheerleaders Die 3
Friday, Horror, 9pm/Horror+1, 10pm
Cheerfully free from any pretentious
twaddle, this gleefully trashy comedy
chiller mixes sex and gore as four
ghostly, vengeful students come
back from the dead. 2013, 15, 86MINSpy 4
Friday, Film4 HD, 9pm/Film4+1, 10pm
Playing an unlikely action hero, Melissa
McCarthy is hilarious in a yarn about a
CIA desk worker who finds herself face
to face with the bad guys as an intrepid
secret agent. 2015, 15, 120MINSleepless 3
Wednesday, Film4 HD, 9pm/
Film4+1, 10 pm
Jamie Foxx’s devious Las Vegas
police officer finds himself trying to
evade fellow cops and crooks alike
as, in the course of a frantic single
day and night, he gets on the wrong
side of Michelle Monaghan’s dogged
Internal Affairs investigator, Dermot
Mulroney’s crooked casino owner
and Scoot McNairy’s psychopathic
mobster. The relentless pace of this
crime thriller ensures the excitement
rarely flags. 2017, 15, 95MINPREM
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