Our list of top films coming to your TV

Below is our list of top films coming to your TV, so you can kick back, relax and enjoy the show.

Saturday 28/07/18

The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017) *** (Sky Cinema Premiere, 10.15am & 6.10pm) Premiere

It doesn't reach the heights of The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie, but this fun animated adventure does boast plenty of martial arts mayhem - and a live-action framing device featuring Jackie Chan.

High school student Lloyd Garmadon (voiced by Dave Franco) lives in the brick city of Ninjago with his mother Koko (Olivia Munn).

Classmates despise Lloyd because his estranged father, Lord Garmadon (Justin Theroux), is an evil despot, who repeatedly attacks the city in elaborate shark-themed contraptions.

Thankfully, Ninjago is protected at all times by the Secret Ninja Force, but when they repel Lord Garmadon's latest attack, the black-helmeted archvillain vows revenge.

Warm Bodies (2013) **** (E4, 9.00pm)

A terrible epidemic has reduced most of the population to shuffling corpses incapable of speech or feeling.

Survivors of the disaster are crammed inside a high-walled metropolis patrolled by General Grigio (John Malkovich) and his gun-toting troops.

The general's feisty teenager daughter, Julie (Teresa Palmer), ventures into the dead zone with her boyfriend Perry (Dave Franco) and best friend Nora (Analeigh Tipton), where they come under attack from zombie buddies R (Nicholas Hoult) and M (Rob Corddry).

R kills Perry and devours the boyfriend's brain, which transfers memories of Julie.

Romance catalyses a remarkable physical transformation in R, suggesting there might be a cure to the plague.

Warm Bodies is a surprisingly sweet post-apocalyptic romantic comedy that offers a refreshing twist on Romeo and Juliet.

Riddick (2013) *** (Channel 4, 10.50pm)

Hulking killing machine Riddick (Vin Diesel) is left for dead on a sun-scorched planet awash with alien predators.

The mercenary's only hope is to activate an emergency beacon and steal aboard a rescue ship.

The beacon alerts bounty hunters to his position and they descend on the planet determined to kill Riddick and collect their fee.

The third film in the Riddick series, which began in 2000 with the muscular sci-fi thriller Pitch Black, pares back the pyrotechnics, focusing on the lead character as he adjusts to hazardous new surroundings.

Diesel reprises his role as the visually impaired "zulu warlock" with unabashed gusto, flinging himself into the various action sequences that director David Twohy uses to punctuate the unremarkable storyline.

Adulthood (2008) *** (5STAR, 11.00pm)

The sequel to Kidulthood opens six years after school bully Sam (Noel Clarke) killed Trife (Aml Ameen).

Finally released from prison, Sam returns to his old stomping ground in West London, where a young thug attacks him and issues a warning that his days are numbered.

The ex-con sets about tracking down the people he hurt, like Trife's girlfriend Alisa (Red Madrell) and the dead boy's pal Moony (Femi Oyeniran).

None of them are in a mood to absolve Sam of his sins, not least Jay (Adam Deacon), who wants the killer to pay for his crime.

Noel Clarke's hard-hitting snapshot of 21st-century life paints a gloomy picture of a world dominated by sex, drugs and intimidation, where respect is earned by pummelling a rival into submission.

Sunday 29/07/18

Spirited Away (2001) ***** (Film4, 1.00pm)

Spirited Away was a deserving winner of an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003.

Hayao Miyazaki's extraordinary, magical adventure constantly surprises with its daring plot twists and unexpected flights of surreal fancy, interspersed with gentle humour as a young girl named Chihiro (voiced by Daveigh Chase) struggles to break the spell which has transformed her parents (Michael Chiklis, Lauren Holly) into pigs.

The film was originally released in dubbed and subtitled versions (for the purists) and both boast lively vocal performances full of emotion, which carry the story along at a brisk pace.

Ingrid Goes West (2017) *** (Sky Cinema Premiere, 2.10pm & 10pm) Premiere

Matt Spicer's dark and disconcerting comedy drama is a delicious cautionary tale about tech-savvy generations, whose fragile sense of self-worth is determined by connections on social media.

For years, Ingrid's (the excellent Aubrey Plaza) best friend has been her mobile phone. It's an addiction that prevents her from nurturing healthy relationships with real people.

During her supposed rehabilitation, Ingrid develops an obsession with Californian socialite and It girl Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen), who documents every facet of her picture-perfect life on Instagram.

Ingrid moves to Los Angeles to be closer to Sloane, and when an opportunity arises to gatecrash her idol's bohemian chic existence, Ingrid spins a web of lies to impress Sloane and her artist husband Ezra (Wyatt Russell).

Free State of Jones (2016) *** (BBC2, 10.00pm) Premiere

Free State Of Jones is a handsome historical drama, which fictionalises a bruising five-year period during the American Civil War.

In October 1862, farmer Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) is serving as a medic in the Confederate Army and witnesses a local boy being shot on the frontline.

Horrified, Newton abandons his post and returns home to Jones County with the boy's body to perform a proper burial.

The threat of capture as a deserter puts an intolerable strain on his relationship with his wife Serena (Keri Russell) and Newton eventually flees into nearby swamps, where he befriends runaway slaves including Rachel (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and Moses (Mahershala Ali).

They live quietly off the land, hoping not to draw the attention of sadistic Lieutenant Barbour (Brad Carter) and his soldiers.

Albert Nobbs (2011) *** (BBC1, 11.40pm)

Glenn Close gives a remarkable performance as an emotionally damaged woman who passes herself off as a butler to survive the hardships of late 19th-century Ireland.

Albert Nobbs (Close) is a dedicated member of staff at Morrison's Hotel in Dublin owned by Mrs Baker (Pauline Collins).

For years, Albert has kept his gender a secret but the subterfuge is shattered when the butler shares his room with painter Hubert Page (Janet McTeer), who also turns out to be a woman in disguise.

Hubert's revelation that he has a wife (Bronagh Gallagher) inspires Albert to contemplate a marriage proposal to pretty maid Helen (Mia Wasikowska).

New employee Joe (Aaron Johnson), who is romancing Helen, scents "a whiff of money" from Nobbs and he encourages her to conduct a sham relationship.

Monday 30/07/18

Escape Plan (2013) *** (E4, 9.00pm)

With Escape Plan 2: Hades currently in cinemas, here's a chance to catch up with the original.

CIA agent Jessica Miller (Caitriona Balfe) offers security expert Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) $5million if he will abandon his usual protocols and go deep undercover in a top-secret prison designed to hold the men that society wants locked up for life.

Unfortunately, he quickly realises that the mission is bogus and Ray is imprisoned for real under the watchful glare of sadistic warden Hobbes (Jim Caviezel).

With no obvious means of escape, Ray befriends fellow inmate Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and on-site medic Dr Kyrie (Sam Neill), and a daring plan takes shape.

Stallone and Schwarzenegger's grizzled charm carries the film through its loopier moments.

The Iceman (2012) *** (Film4, 9.00pm)

A thug rises through the ranks of the criminal fraternity in Ariel Vromen's taut thriller, based on the exploits of headline-grabbing mob contract killer Richard Kuklinski.

Michael Shannon assumes the lead role of Kuklinski, who is imprisoned in 1986 for murder.

In flashback, we meet Richard in his early days as an underling for sadistic mob boss Roy DeMeo (Ray Liotta).

When Richard's particular branch of the operation is shut down, Roy employs him as a bodyguard to dole out beatings to anyone who dares to cross the kingpin.

Meanwhile, Richard romances and eventually weds Deborah Pellicotti (Winona Ryder), who is clueless about her husband's illegal activities, and he attempts to keep his day job secret from his brother Joey (Stephen Dorff).

Tuesday 31/07/18

The Borrowers (1997) *** (Film4, 4.45pm)

This fun family film is loosely adapted from Mary Norton's tales of small folk and their existence in our houses 'borrowing' all sorts of odds and ends with which to furnish their everyday lives.

In the house of Joe and Victoria Lender (Aden Gillett and Doon MacKichan), Pod Clock (Jim Broadbent) is beginning to train up his two young children Arietty (Flora Newbigin) and Peagreen (a pre-Harry Potter Tom Felton) in the art of borrowing, with daily forays for supplies.

Arietty is sprung in a solo effort by Pete (Bradley Pierce), the Lender's son, who reveals some world-shattering news: the Lenders have to move across town, because late Great Aunt Mary's will, which bequeaths them the house, has gone missing and the property risks falling into the grubby mitts of lawyer Ocious Potter (John Goodman).

An Education (2009) **** (BBC4, 10.00pm)

In Twickenham in 1961, 16-year-old schoolgirl Jenny (Carey Mulligan) meets handsome stranger David (Peter Sarsgaard) on the street and is flattered by the attentions of the older man.

He gradually leads her astray with visits to late-night supper clubs and a trip to the country. As a consequence, Jenny's grades slip and her teacher Miss Stubbs (Olivia Williams) fears her best student is throwing her future away.

Based on a memoir by journalist Lynn Barber, An Education is a rites-of-passage story blessed with a touching and humorous script by Nick Hornby. Mulligan's tour-de-force, Oscar-nominated central performance galvanises the film, striking the right balance between determination and vulnerability.

Wednesday 01/08/18

Arrietty (2010) **** (Film4, 2.40pm)

Hiromasa Yonebayashi's animated feature is a colourful adaptation of Mary Norton's novel The Borrowers (and offers a very different take from the 1997 live-action film).

A boy called Sho (voiced by Tom Holland) goes to stay with his aunt to rest before an important operation.

One day, he glimpses a tiny figure, Arrietty (Saoirse Ronan), the daughter of the Clock family, which lives beneath the floorboards, unseen by his aunt or her cats.

Ignoring the warnings about humans from her father Pod (Mark Strong) and mother Homily (Olivia Colman), Arrietty forges an unlikely friendship with sympathetic and kind Sho.

Needless to say, Pod and Homily are terrified that other humans will discover their existence and they will be forced to move to a new dwelling.

Senna (2010) **** (ITV4, 11.10pm)

On Sunday May 1, 1994, at the San Marino Grand Prix, three-time champion Ayrton Senna's car left the track after the Tamburello corner, colliding with a concrete wall.

The Brazilian driver died soon after. Made with the blessing of Senna's family and the co-operation of Bernie Ecclestone, this documentary from Asif Kapadia (who would go on to make the Oscar-winning Amy) pays glowing tribute to this handsome and charismatic sportsman.

Painstakingly constructed from hours of race footage, photographs, interviews and archive material, Senna celebrates the life of the iconic Formula 1 driver, whose death sparked a radical overhaul of safety procedures.

Thursday 02/08/18

The Way We Were (1973) **** (Sony Movie Channel, 1.00pm)

It's a case of opposites attract when upper-class novelist Hubbel (Robert Reford) and Jewish political activist Katie (Barbra Streisand) meet at college in the 1930s.

The couple marry, and he becomes a successful Hollywood screenwriter. But when his career is threatened by her socialist leanings, they are left wondering if love really is enough to overcome the differences between them.

Despite all the talk about politics, from the Second World War to the McCarthy witch-hunts, this is essentially an old-fashioned romantic weepie - If the story doesn't get you sobbing, the Oscar-winning theme song will.

Streisand is on fine form as the idealistic Katie, and if Redford is a little bit colourless as Hubbel, he's handsome enough to convince you she'd fall for him.

The Killer Inside Me (2010) *** (Sony Movie Channel, 9.00pm)

Deputy sheriff Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) is a well-respected pillar of a small-town Texas community, with a pretty schoolteacher girlfriend, Amy Stanton (Kate Hudson).

But beneath the placid facade, Lou is a conniving sociopath, embroiled in a sadomasochistic affair with town prostitute Joyce Lakeland (Jessica Alba). When a plot to wreak revenge on millionaire Chester Conway (Ned Beatty) goes horribly awry, wily District Attorney Howard Hendricks (Simon Baker) starts to see through Lou's nice guy act.

Based on the novel by Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me is a gritty and unsettling thriller, which paints a vivid portrait of a serial killer at large in an unsuspecting community.

Michael Winterbottom's film is not for the faint of heart, punctuated by shocking explosions of graphic violence.

Friday 03/08/18

Moomins on the Riviera (2014) *** (Film4, 11.00am)

In the aftermath of a pirate shipwreck close to the Moomins' island home, Moominpappa (voiced by Nathaniel Parker), Moominmamma (Tracy Ann Oberman), Moomintroll (Russell Tovey), Snorkmaiden (Stephanie Winiecki) and Little My (Ruth Gibson) embark on an exciting adventure by sea to the French Riviera, where some of the family's heads are turned by glamorous new friends.

Directed with a light touch by Xavier Picard, Moomins on the Riviera is a lovingly hand-drawn animation, based on the comic strips by Finnish artist Tove Jansson.

Visuals retain the naive charm of original illustrations, even with the introduction of potentially grown-up scenes like Moominpappa suffering a whiskey-induced hangover.

Train to Busan (2016) **** (Film4, 10.55pm) Premiere

Workaholic husband Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) begrudgingly agrees to take his young daughter Su-an (Kim Su-an) to Busan to see her mother for her birthday.

They board the KTX bullet train just as a mysterious viral outbreak forces the government to declare martial law.

Alas the contagion is already on board and spreads like wildfire as passengers bite each other, spraying blood throughout the scream-filled carriages. Seok-woo and Su-an survive the initial attacks, but there is a lot of track to run until the terminus...

Directed with giddy abandon by Yeon Sang-ho, Train To Busan is a blood-soaked South Korean zombie horror that marries the gore and twisted morality of The Walking Dead with the thrills and spills of The Raid.