MOVIE CHOICE

THE GUNFIGHTER (1950) U ● 2.10PM, 5 ACTION

★★★★

This dark, complex western, directed by Henry King, stars Gregory Peck as Jimmy Ringo, the hardened gunslinger hoping to change his ways and start things afresh with his one-time love.

But there are plenty of people out there who still hold a grudge – and Ringo cannot escape his past.

HOBSON’S CHOICE (1953) U

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3.50PM, TALKING PICTURES TV ★★★★

A rare comedy from director David Lean, this stars Charles Laughton as Henry Horatio Hobson, father of three daughters who all work for him in his Lancashire bootmakers. Convinced he’s the master of his house, Hobson fails to notice the rings his daughters run around him.

NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (2013) 12

◆ 6.45PM, GREAT! MOVIES ★★★★ In this adaptation of the international bestseller by Pascal Mercier, Jeremy Irons (left) stars as an academic who impulsively travels to Lisbon in search of a troubled young woman. His only leadisabookshehadinher possession when he first saw her. Charlotte Rampling also stars.

SICARIO (2015)15

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9PM, FILM4 ★★★★ Intense crime thriller following a joint agency task force and their scattered approach to taking down a Mexican drugs cartel. Emily Blunt holds it together with a strong central performance as the FBI agent who joins up with Josh Brolin’s CIA man and Benicio del Toro’s morally skewed freelancer.