TV FILMS of the week

Published date22 January 2022
Publication titleEvening Gazette
Aaron Eckhart as Jimmy

MIDWAY Tonight, Channel 4, 9.30pm Tamon Yamaguchi (Tadanobu Asano), naval attache to Washington, listens to a radio news report about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. Hundreds of American servicemen die in Hawaii, including Lieutenant Roy Pearce (Alexander Ludwig), whose best friend, ace dive bomber pilot Lieutenant Dick Best (Ed Skrein), swears revenge. America formally enters the Second World War and Lieutenant Commander Jimmy Doolittle (Aaron Eckhart) spearheads a daring raid on the Japanese mainland. Midway is an all-guns-blazing dramatisation of six months of military brinkmanship between America and Japan.

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CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Tomorrow, ITV4, 9pm This superb drama focuses on what happened when the US container ship Maersk Alabama was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009. The captain, Richard Phillips, is taken hostage and forced to comply with the group during a five-day crisis. Tom Hanks, left, is superb in the title role, but is more than matched by the previously unknown Barkhad Abdi, who is a revelation as the Somali leader.

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THE KRAYS Monday, ITV4, 9pm Spandau Ballet siblings Gary and Martin Kemp, left, are impressive as Ronnie and Reggie, the vicious Kray twins who ruled Sixties London's underworld with fear and violence. The result is a stark and occasionally brutal drama, which deals rather well with the complex influences that shaped the gangland supremos. Billie Whitelaw gives a powerful performance as the boys' wily mother.

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THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY Tuesday, 5STAR, 9pm This riotous comedy stars Ben Stiller as loveable Ted, who misses out on a prom date with Mary (Cameron Diaz, left). Thirteen years later, Ted is still obsessed with Mary and sets out to track her...

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