Pick of the week
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey<\/p>\n
Kogonada\u2019s beguiling fable pushes two damaged people together through a fantastical meet-cute, then traces their fraught quest for peace of mind. After being introduced at a wedding, David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie) end up in the same mysterious rental car. Nudged by a matchmaking GPS, they stop off at a series of magical doors and revisit scenes from their pasts to work out how they got to be the sad singletons they are now. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Howl\u2019s Moving Castle, Before Sunrise \u2013 pick your own filmic reference \u2013 come to mind as the pair\u00a0reassess memories of heartbreak, loss, betrayal and, occasionally, love.
Saturday 18 April, 11.50am, 6pm, Sky Cinema Premiere<\/p>\n
SabrinaLove triangle \u2026 Audrey Hepburn and William Holden in Sabrina. Photograph: RGR Collection\/Alamy<\/p>\n
Not a biopic of the Espresso hitmaker, sadly, but an old-school romance from Billy Wilder about love across the class divide. Audrey Hepburn, the epitome of stylish joie de vivre, plays the titular chauffeur\u2019s daughter, who has a crush on David (William Holden), playboy brother of stuffy industrialist Linus (Humphrey Bogart). David barely notices her, until she returns from two years in Paris with a swish wardrobe and air of confidence. But he is promised to another as part of a business deal, so Linus plots to seduce Sabrina away from him, then dump her.
Saturday 18 April, 12.50pm, Sky Arts<\/p>\n
Despicable MeSupervillain \u2026 Gru and his Minion crew plot to steal the moon in Despicable Me. Photograph: AJ Pics\/Alamy<\/p>\n
With three sequels and a third spin-off prequel due in July, this 2010 animated comedy juggernaut is basically critic-proof. Luckily, it is terrific. There\u2019s a melodramatic, witty supervillain, Steve Carell\u2019s Gru (who\u2019s not too villainous), three cute orphaned girls he takes in (who aren\u2019t too cute) and, the clincher, the Minions: a posse of giddy little yellow workers who are Gru\u2019s version of the Oompa-Loompas and endlessly expendable. Aside from the odd adult-oriented gag (the Bank of Evil is \u201cformerly Lehman Brothers\u201d), it\u2019s kid-focused fun all the way.
Sunday 19 April, 3.05pm, BBC One<\/p>\n
Whistle Down the WindSecond coming \u2026 Kathy (Hayley Mills) believes a fugitive (Alan Bates) is Jesus. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc\/Alamy<\/p>\n
\u201cWho is it?\u201d \u201cJesus Christ!\u201d The shocked encounter in a dark barn between Lancashire farmer\u2019s child Kathy (Hayley Mills) and criminal fugitive Arthur (Alan Bates) leads the girl and her younger siblings to believe he really is the son of God \u2013 and to vow to protect him from the grownups who might crucify him again. A skewed religious allegory directed in gritty fashion by Bryan Forbes \u2013 from a novel by Hayley\u2019s mum, Mary Hayley Bell \u2013 it features brilliantly unsentimental performances from a motley group of mostly locally cast kids.
Monday 20 April, 4.30pm, Talking Pictures TV<\/p>\n
The Man With Two BrainsA key work from his heyday \u2026 Steve Martin in The Man With Two Brains. Photograph: PR<\/p>\n
A key work from Steve Martin\u2019s 1980s heyday, this homage to\/spoof of 50s sci-fi movies is a kitchen sink\u2019s worth of sight gags and wordplay. Martin is in typically manic mode as groundbreaking brain surgeon Michael Hfuhruhurr (\u201cIt sounds just the way it\u2019s spelt\u201d) who marries Kathleen Turner\u2019s gloriously venal, libidinous femme fatale Dolores. But then he falls for the disembodied but still living brain of Anne Uumellmahaye \u2013 an uncredited Sissy Spacek.
Wednesday 22 April, 8.55am, 4.25am, Sky Cinema Greats<\/p>\n
A Hole in the HeadHigh hopes! \u2026 Frank Sinatra with Thelma Ritter, Eddie Hodges and Edward G Robinson in A Hole in the Head. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc\/Alamy<\/p>\n
Frank Sinatra\u2019s Miami hotel owner Tony has high hopes \u2013 in fact, he knows an Oscar-winning song about that! Sadly, in Frank Capra\u2019s chatty romantic drama, he\u2019s also a failing businessman with an eye for the ladies \u2013 currently, Carolyn \u201cMorticia Addams\u201d Jones\u2019s free-spirited Shirl. With a freckle-faced son to care for, his only financial recourse is his successful, judgy elder brother Mario, who reluctantly comes down from New York. But Mario\u2019s chequebook comes with marital strings attached in the shape of eligible widow Eloise. A breezy tale kept aloft by Sinatra\u2019s chancer charm.
Friday 24 April, 1.45pm, Sky Arts<\/p>\n
SkyscraperPacked with spectacular stunts \u2026 Neve Campbell and Dwayne Johnson in Skyscraper. Photograph: Moviestore Collection Ltd\/Alamy<\/p>\n
The Towering Inferno meets Die Hard in Hong Kong and watches Mission: Impossible on autoplay. Yes, Rawson Marshall Thurber\u2019s action-festooned thriller may be a copy but it\u2019s an accomplished one. Dwayne Johnson stars as FBI agent turned security expert Will. His job validating the safety of the hi-tech Pearl \u2013 the tallest building on Earth \u2013 leads him and his family into a perilous escape from a blazing building and a criminal gang, all at a 3,000ft elevation. The many spectacular, vertiginous stunts, some featuring Will\u2019s false leg, are reason enough to watch this.
Friday April 24, 11.20pm, ITV1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pick of the weekA Big Bold Beautiful Journey Kogonada\u2019s beguiling fable pushes two damaged people together through a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-396945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}