FRIDAY

THE HOLIDAY (2006) 12

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8PM, ITV2 ★★★

Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz star in this romcom as two women – on opposite sides the Atlantic – who swap homes in order get away from it all, including failed romances. Winslet visits LA, while Diaz is in London.

GODZILLA VS KONG

(2021) 12 ◆

8PM, SKY PREMIERE ★★★

PREMIERE The movie death matches continue (see also Batman vs Superman, on Saturday, and Alien vs Predator). This time, it’s the turn of two of cinema’s earliest monsters to face each other. Jia (Kaylee Hottle, below) is the little girl forming a special bond with Kong.

PACIFIC RIM (2013) 12 9PM, 5STAR

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★★★

Big ideas and a jolly big budget power this monster movie in which alien beasts burst on to the scene via an interdimensional portal. The human race retaliates by building huge robots that can take them on.

LAPSIS

(2020) PG ● 11.15PM, FILM4 ★★★ PREMIERE This science fiction indie takes the gig economy to sinister extremes. Delivery man Ray (Dean Imperial) gets a new job, laying quantum computer cable in the forest, where he has competition from robot workers and is greeted with hostility by the locals.

GRETA (2018) 15

◆ 11.55PM, BBC1 ★★★ PREMIERE Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz (above) star in this thriller from director Neil Jordan. Huppert is Greta, the widow making a new friend in waitress Frances (Moretz). But underneath her elegantly lonely exterior, Greta harbours a chilling secret.