Film recap
A look back at much-pored feature films as they screen on TV
Hanna: Joe Wright’s pride and extreme prejudice – film on TV recap
Stuart Heritage: Saoirse Ronan leads an impressively starry cast in this teen assassin action movie, but it proves a weird fit with the director’s period-drama hits. It shows on Channel 4 at 9.20pm on Saturday
Battle: Los Angeles – everyone screams, everyone cries, everyone whoops: film on TV recap
The old-fashioned alien-invasion movie gets a workout on Saturday at 9:20pm on Channel 4 – can you remember anything that happened first time around? asks Stuart Heritage
Insomnia: Robin Williams and Al Pacino grapple with darkness – film on TV recap
Stuart Heritage recaps Christopher Nolan's taut cop thriller, which brought a sinister performance out of Robin Williams
Iron Man: just a bloke, a cave and a hammer … bliss – film on TV recap
Stuart Heritage: While superhero films have become ever more impenetrable, the relative simplicity of Iron Man – which will be shown on Channel 4 at 8pm on Saturday – gives it enduring appeal
Killers: Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher are victims of a bungled execution – film on TV recap
Stuart Heritage: The characters are blank and the stars appear to exist in their own separate vacuums in this, the third worst film of 2010
Apocalypto: Mel Gibson brings the good/bad news - film on TV recap
Apocalypto, Mel Gibson's post-Passion of the Christ folly, is showing on BBC2 at 11:15pm on Saturday, invading Mayan history and leaving reality in shreds
Paul: more or less as audience-friendly as it comes – film on TV recap
A Simon Pegg/Nick Frost film without Edgar Wright may lack the ornate brilliance of the World's End director, but at least it's got real heart
Rise of the Planet of the Apes: all the beautiful economy of the original – film on TV recap
Stuart Heritage: After a string of sequels and spin-offs, this reboot of the 1968 classic – showing on Channel 4 at 9pm on Saturday – simplifies everything and cuts to an all-out species-obliterating war on humans with satisfying speed
Click: the moral? Never listen to Adam Sandler – film on TV recap
Stuart Heritage: An unfocused and jumbled take on A Christmas Carol, Click, broadcast at 4.20pm, Sunday on Channel 5, was Sandler's attempt at becoming Robin Williams. Unfortunately, he just can't stop being Adam Sandler
Despicable Me: a whole fluffy unicorn of cuteness – film on TV recap
Stuart Heritage: Don't let those annoying, dungaree-wearing Kinder Egg Minions spoil your enjoyment of this sweet tale of paternal love, when it airs on ITV at 7pm on Saturday
The King's Speech: did you notice how weird it is? – film on TV recap
Stuart Heritage: It was a shoo-in for a bunch of Oscars, pleased monarchists and history buffs, and got an older generation back in cinemas. But watch Colin Firth as George VI again on the small screen, on Channel 4 at 9pm on Saturday, and its oddness – the skewed camera angles, endless close-ups – will hit you immediately
What to Expect When You're Expecting: A star-filled self-help mecha-beast - film on TV recap
What to Expect When You're Expecting is showing on Channel 5 on Sunday at 10pm. Stuart Heritage darts into a bright, twinkly world where the problems thrown up by pregnancy are cheap to solve and always fun
The Happening: a disaster on so many levels – film on TV recap
Stuart Heritage: The Happening may have marked a box-office low for M Night Shyamalan, but the film's tale of deadly pollen, tiramisu and its committed flippancy from Mark Wahlberg demand to be watched
Mannequin: a shockingly real dummy – film on TV recap
Stuart Heritage recaps Manniquin, an 80s comedy for dummies, on Channel 5 on Sunday 8 June
Die Another Day: impossibly bad and utterly unmissable – film on TV recap
There’s an ice palace, a giant space laser, an invisible car. And John Cleese. And Halle Berry in a bikini … Pierce Brosnan’s swansong as James Bond is so brilliantly inept you really must watch it this Friday on ITV at 10.35pm, says Stuart Heritage
X-Men: First Class and its schoolboy behaviour – film on TV recap
How did Professor X and Magneto go from being friends to sworn enemies? And why do X-Men mutants have such stupid names? Find out by watching X-Men: First Class this Saturday at 9pm on Channel 4, but be prepared to cringe, says Stuart Heritage
GoldenEye: why Pierce Brosnan's debut is a crucial Bond – film on TV recap
Stuart Heritage: Pierce Brosnan's suave bungee-jumper, a female M and a Russian girl in a trendy cardigan – watch it on ITV at 10.35pm this Friday night to see the franchise's reviving 90s makeover
Underworld: Awakening's vampire warfare – film on TV recap
Kate Beckinsale stars as a sexy vampire warrior in this instalment in the Underworld series, on Channel 4 this Sunday. Stuart Heritage discovers that watching the film is like being trapped in Riga's loudest malfunctioning strobe-light factory
Hop recap: A rabbit knocks stuff over
Russell Brand as the Easter Bunny, chewy sweets over chocolate. Nothing about Hop - which is being shown on Channel 4 at 6:10pm tonight - has any spring in its step, says Stuart Heritage
It's Complicated recap: wait until your dream girl is vulnerable, then move in
It may have all the hallmarks of female-friendly fluff, but Nancy Meyers' 2009 rom-com – which will be shown on Channel 4 at 9pm on Saturday – rises above other films of its ilk, writes Stuart Heritage
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