The best films to watch on UK TV today: Saturday, 7 November
Choose from feel good pups, faith in the face of despair, and Lovecraftian horrors and more as TopFilmTip brings you the best films on TV for Saturday, 7 November.
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Jack Frost, Easter Bunny, Sandman, Santa and the Tooth Fairy must stop evil plot to destroy childhood wonder in Rise of the Guardians 12:45pm Film 4
Top musical fun when sailors Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra take 24 hours leave in NYC and get more than they hoped for On the Town 2:40pm BBC Two
Multiple lives of a reincarnating pup trace the life lessons, loves and licks of cross section of society in feel good family fun A Dog's Purpose 2:45pm Film 4
Fiercely independent rebel gets arrested to free incarcerated friend in anarchic Kirk Douglas / Trumbo classic Lonely Are the Brave 4:00pm ITV4
Teen Doctor Who duo air guitar through history in time traveling phone box to realise wisdom is knowing they know nothing Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 4:25pm Sony Movies
Fearing abandonment, monstrous hotelier tries to instil seeds of terror in mixed-species grandson: family fun Hotel Transylvania 2 4:55pm ITV2
After 26 years trapped in boardgame, Robin Williams is freed by curious kids in carnivorous creature comedy adventure Jumanji 5:00pm Comedy Central
Kevin Costner makes Ashton Kutcher dripping wet, saves seamen and looks good in a wetsuit in marine rescue drama The Guardian 6:15pm Sony Movie
Due to lack of most basic text messaging to warn the public, a malicious monkey proceeds to liquefy American's internal organs Outbreak 6:25pm 5 Star
Balrog fights, possessed kings, talking trees and Thermopylaen battle in epic WW2 inspired fantasy The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 8:00pm Sky 1
Caught in intricate plan to ruin Russian opposite, morally devoid Bastard faces nihilism of espionage The Spy Who Came in From the Cold 8:05pm Talking Pictures
A stellar cast bring battle of Stalingrad into harsh relief in totally immersive epic historical action drama Enemy at the Gates 9:00pm Sony Movies
Kitten saving, tentacled deity smashing, horn shaving lovelorn demon leads team of supernatural feds in war on rasputin Hellboy 9:00pm Comedy Central
Harrison Ford mumbles, Michelle Pfeiffer smoulders and Robert Zemeckis delivers in chilly horror creepfest What Lies Beneath 9:00pm 5 Star
Arnie obsessed kid escapes into filmic reality unleashing evil of Charles Dance upon world he left behind in prophetically meta, under-appreciated gem Last Action Hero 9:00pm Film 4
Amid communism’s fall, icy MI6 agent tears through East and West Berlin seeking spy-list in exquisitely brutal neon joy Atomic Blonde 9:10pm Channel 4
Heavy handed narc Gene Hackman tracks drug dealers in train chasing, Poughkeepsie foot picking, SOB-ing gem The French Connection 10:10pm Sony Movies Action
Icy CIA spy holiday spirals into high rise chases, nuclear cases and punching mustached faces in ladder/broom/stilt/shark fighting double exploding helicopter action Jackie Chan's First Strike 11:15pm Paramount Network
After priests' padre is rumoured to have apostatised, Jesuit travels to Japan to seek truth and minister to persecuted peasants thus mirroring life of his deity in Scorsese’s Silence 11:20pm BBC Two
Grieving widower makes contact with supernatural psychic, nuisance-calling disaster predictor in creepfest The Mothman Prophecies 11:40pm 5 Star
Hospital besieged patients and medics endure tentacled transcendental onslaught in visceral vicious loveletter to Lovecraft The Void 12:50am Horror Channel
Innocent callow natural beauty is consumed by rapacious jealousy of LA’s modelling culture in Hypnotic phantasmagoria The Neon Demon 1:30am Film 4
Perpetual squatter Tom Cruise rescues innocent warbling princess from unicorn hunting goblins and Satan in hyperbolic fantasy Legend 2:40am Horror Channel