Wicked Little Letters to The Shining: the seven best films to watch on TV this week | Television & radio

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Depraved Little Letters

When a collection of nameless poison pen letters are despatched to prim coastal city resident Edith (Olivia Colman), suspicion instantly falls on her neighbour Rose (Jessie Buckley), an Irish single mom with a boisterous, proto-feminist angle. There’s something inherently hilarious about Colman swearing, and Thea Sharrock’s fact-based Nineteen Twenties comedy ladles on the artistic insults as the author’s vitriol widens to absorb the entire neighborhood. Hidden behind the curtain-twitching scandal is a cautionary story about how the victims of bullying and repression can discover distorted retailers for his or her rage, however watching Colman and Buckley go at it’s virtually sufficient in itself.
Out now, Netflix

Jericho Ridge

It’s excessive time the superb Nikki Amuka-Chook acquired extra lead roles, so Will Gilbey’s real-time thriller may be very welcome. There are shades of Rio Bravo – and, with the police angle, Assault on Precinct 13 – as Amuka-Chook’s deputy sheriff finds herself trapped in her station when unknown armed assailants assault. Her solely firm is surly teenage son Monty (Zack Morris) and jailed home abuser Earl (Michael Socha). However what are they after? A number of the plot setups are a bit apparent, nevertheless it’s properly directed and tightly wound.
Sunday 28 July, 2.50pm, 10pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

Unbreakable

How do you observe a blockbuster like The Sixth Sense? Should you’re M Evening Shyamalan, you write one other spooky story and get Bruce Willis again to star. Within the first of what would change into a superhero trilogy, Willis performs unhappily married safety guard David, who realises he can by no means be harm after being the only survivor of a practice crash. He’s tracked down by Samuel L Jackson’s comedian e book aficionado Elijah, who prophesies David’s future is to be a crime-fighter. A movie whose graphic novel stylings are balanced by an origin story with everyman vibes.
Sunday 28 July, 9pm, Nice! Films

The Shining

In potential tribute to the late Shelley Duvall – although her recollections of the shoot steered it wasn’t one in all her favourites – the BBC is exhibiting Stanley Kubrick’s seminal horror. Duvall actually earns the title “scream queen” because the spouse of Jack Nicholson’s more and more unhinged caretaker. They and their psychic younger son hunker down in an out-of-season resort for the winter, solely to expertise a keep that will break Tripadvisor. A fantastic-looking movie, precision-tooled to be as scary as potential and endlessly rewatchable.
Sunday 28 July, 10pm, BBC Two

Summertime

With town authorities planning a cost for day vacationers, in future years movies reminiscent of David Lean’s 1955 romance would be the solely option to benefit from the wonders of Venice. And Lean conjures up a wonderful picture-postcard view, one which seduces Katharine Hepburn’s lone, lonely American vacationer extra successfully than Rossano Brazzi’s easy native does. There’s a bittersweet edge to their affair, with the redoubtable Hepburn very good as a middle-aged lady increasing her horizons.
Monday 29 July, 4.05pm, Speaking Photos TV

Mo’ Higher Blues

A cool digestif after his scorching’n’spicy earlier movie Do the Proper Factor, Spike Lee’s story of Brooklyn trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) is as a lot a celebration of Black jazz as a drama a few man for whom music is his first, and solely, love. Bleek juggles two girls – instructor Indigo (Joie Lee) and singer Clarke (Cynda Williams) – whereas going through a powerplay in his quintet from Wesley Snipes’s bold saxophonist Shadow. Nevertheless it’s the sounds which might be central, penned by Lee’s dad Invoice and performed by the Branford Marsalis Quartet and Terence Blanchard.
Wednesday 31 July, 4.25am, Sky Cinema Greats

Cries and Whispers

There’s one thing emotionally palate-cleansing within the brutal honesty and stillness of an Ingmar Bergman movie. His 1972 chamber piece about three sisters, one in all whom is dying a gradual, painful loss of life, is a working example. In a childhood residence embellished in an oppressive blood purple, Karin and Maria (Bergman regulars Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann) await the demise of Harriet Andersson’s Agnes, as harsh truths about their lives – repressed or expressed – are revealed. It’s going to be a bumpy journey …
Thursday 1 August, 1.15pm, Sky Cinema Greats