Pick of the weekHow to Have Sex<\/p>\n
The fraught territory of sex and consent among young people gets a working over in Molly Manning Walker\u2019s bruising, disquieting debut feature. Mia McKenna-Bruce stars as the achingly vulnerable 16-year-old Tara who, along with best mates Skye (Lara Peake) and Em (Enva Lewis), goes on holiday to Malia in Crete. It\u2019s party central for the teenage trio in a cycle of drink, dance, eat chips, sleep and repeat. But teaming up with older hotel neighbours Paddy and Badger (Ladhood\u2019s Samuel Bottomley and Shaun Thomas) \u2013 and Tara\u2019s uncertainty about losing her virginity amid the \u201canything goes\u201d atmosphere at the resort \u2013 lead to jealousy, peer pressure and worse.
Thursday, 9pm, Film4<\/p>\n
Spinal Tap II: The End ContinuesReady for the reunion? \u2026 Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. Photograph: Kyle Kaplan\/AP<\/p>\n
Fifteen years after the band split, film-maker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) is back to document the build-up to their reunion concert in New Orleans. It\u2019s an elegiac outing for Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer\u2019s trio \u2013 more grizzled, slightly wiser, less inadvertently comic \u2013 as they rehearse and bicker between starry cameos from the likes of Paul McCartney and Elton John. There are pleasing callbacks to the first film\u2019s big laughs \u2013 cursed drummers, Stonehenge \u2013 plus a fair bit of rather accomplished rock.
Saturday, 8am, 4.10pm, 10.25pm, Sky Cinema Premiere<\/p>\n
From Here to EternityIntense romance \u2026 From Here to Eternity. Photograph: World History Archive\/Alamy<\/p>\n
Fred Zinnemann\u2019s Oscar-laden drama, based on James Jones\u2019s semi-autobiographical novel, is set on an army base in Hawaii in 1941. But it\u2019s not about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; that\u2019s relegated to a postscript to the tale of two intense romances on the outer edge of respectability. Montgomery Clift\u2019s new arrival is bullied after refusing to box for his company, but finds respite with Donna Reed\u2019s club hostess. Meanwhile, Burt Lancaster\u2019s sergeant starts an affair with the captain\u2019s wife (Deborah Kerr).
Saturday, 4.35pm, Talking Pictures TV<\/p>\n
Black BoxGripping \u2026 Pierre Niney in Black Box. Photograph: Album\/Alamy<\/p>\n
This 2021 French film is a gripping throwback to the great US paranoia thrillers of the 70s, in particular Coppola\u2019s The Conversation. Pierre Niney plays obsessive air-crash investigator Mathieu, whose expertise is in analysing the cockpit voice recorder, AKA the black box. When a plane goes down in the Alps, killing all on board, Mathieu is called on to provide an explanation. But can he trust what he hears on the recording? And why has his boss suddenly gone missing? Mathieu plunges down a rabbit hole of conspiracy where the truth may or may not be on the tape.
Saturday, midnight, BBC Two<\/p>\n
Here We AreWhat a heart-tugger \u2026 Here We Are. Photograph: Spiro Films Ltd.<\/p>\n
A valuable addition to the film canon exploring the experience of autism, Nir Bergman\u2019s drama focuses on divorcee Aharon (Shai Avivi), who is the sole carer for his son Uri (Noam Imber). The now grownup child is due to move into a specialist hostel, but the father can\u2019t bear to lose his boy and Uri is afraid of being abandoned by his dad. So they go on the run. But is Aharon doing this for Uri\u2019s sake or his own? A coming-of-age story with a difference, it\u2019s an illuminating, often amusing heart-tugger.
Sunday, 11.50pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n
BatmanThe dark knight himself \u2026 Michael Keaton in Batman. Photograph: Snap\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
With this 1989 comic crime thriller, Tim Burton rescued Batman from his camp TV ghetto \u2013 not least through the left-field casting of Michael Keaton as the dark knight. Getting Jack Nicholson to play the Joker was definitely more on the nose: he is clearly having a blast as the giggling, purple-clad psychopath. Other good decisions include a revamped Batmobile plus a soundtrack by Danny Elfman and that other fan of purple, Prince. The arguably superior sequel, Batman Returns, with Danny DeVito as the Penguin and Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, follows at 8pm.
Tuesday, 5.50pm, Sky Cinema Greats<\/p>\n
Downton Abbey: The Grand FinaleSpiffing! \u2026 Laura Carmichael, Harry Hadden-Paton, Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. Photograph: Rory Mulvey\/AP<\/p>\n
After 52 episodes and two films, if you haven\u2019t fallen for the Upstairs Downstairs goings-on of the landed Crawley family, then this third and last movie is probably not for you. For the rest, the main scandal to get the aristocrats\u2019 sensibilities all a-quiver is the divorce of Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery), which in 1930 prohibits her from being presented to a prince and awarding prizes at the county fair. There\u2019s also some distressing money talk involving Cora\u2019s brother (Paul Giamatti), plus a guest appearance by No\u00ebl Coward. Spiffing.
Friday, 7.55am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pick of the weekHow to Have Sex The fraught territory of sex and consent among young people gets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-406460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}