Today’s Number One Film:

Dope, 6.10pm HBO2 Ch 525 BEST FILM OF THE DAY. Watch this if you liked The Breakfast Club, Straight Outta Compton or Top Five. BC on TV called the American (born of Nigerian immigrant parents) director Rick Famuyiwa’s film one of the most pleasant surprises – and the 16^th most outstanding DVD release – of 2015 for very good reasons. A top-notch all-round film that is only incidentally youth- or African-American- or geek-comic or anything else, Dope is seamlessly made, sparkingly scripted and lifts the normally identikit standards of the teenaged film market via real characters you care for deeply. Immaculate dialogue and provocative observational comedy fill out a delightful film that engages throughout and progresses to a powerful, memorable finale that makes something new out of one of the oldest questions in America. Directed by Rick Famuyiwa/ 2015/ USA / Comedy-Crime-Drama / 103 mins/ Rated R for language, drug content, sexuality/nudity and some violence, all involving teens.

JUST NOSED OUT:

**Room (Drama-Indy-Thriller), 7pm Max; Watchmen (Superhero), 6.20pm FoxAct; Night Train to Lisbon (Drama), 8.10pm FoxCin; Cosmopolis (Drama-Indy-Thriller), 9pm Max; Edward Scissorshands (Family-Fantasy), 9pm FoxClas; Pink Floyd: The Wall (Music), 10pm TCM; Dear White People (Comedy), 9pm HBOP; The Age of Adaline (Fantasy-Romance-Sci-fi), 7pm HBOE; Kubo and the Two Strings (Animated-Family), PPV Ch 402.

BEST Pay Per View BET: Doctor Strange, Ch 410

*Starred films have been chosen in the last year. ** Double-starred films have been chosen in the last two months.

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