Movies on TV
Highlights for each day of the week
Monday, Aug. 5
Soylent Green
Chances are, you already know the recipe for the foodstuff known as Soylent Green. That’s no spoiler when viewing this campy, freaky, dystopian sci-fi thriller. (1973) 3:30 p.m., TCM
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Tuesday, Aug. 6
Suspicion
Cary Grant and Joan Fon-taine co-star in this Alfred Hitchcock thriller about a playboy whose heiress wife suspects him of plotting to kill her. (1941) 6 p.m., TCM
Wednesday, Aug. 7
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Arachnophobia
An infestation of tropical spiders rattles a California town in this creature feature. It will leave you with a serious case of the creepy-crawlies. (1990) 12:30 p.m., HBO
Thursday, Aug. 8
M*A*S*H
Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould played the original Hawkeye and Trapper John in the Oscar-winning antiwar film, which spawned the legendary TV sitcom. Robert Altman directs. (1970) 4 p.m., Sundance
Friday, Aug. 9
Paper Moon
Ryan O’Neal and 9-year-old daughter Tatum play a couple of con artists who take the Midwest by storm. Tatum won an Oscar. (1973) 6:15 p.m., Movieplex
Saturday, Aug. 10
The Witches of Eastwick
Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon play big-haired ’80s witches who take on Jack Nicholson’s horny Devil. Based on a John Updike novel. (1987) 1 p.m., Encore
Sunday, Aug. 11
Gangs of New York
Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio headline Martin Scorsese’s 19th-century revenge tale set in New York’s Five Points neighborhood. (2002) 9 p.m., The Movie Channel
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