TV listings SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2014 07:00 The Imposter-PG15 09:00 Falling In Love-PG15 11:00 Regarding Henry-PG15 13:00 Will-PG 00:00 Live PGA Tour 03:00 Cricket ODI Series Highlights 00:00 Jackass: Number Two-R 15:00 Would Be Kings-PG15 04:00 ICC Cricket 360 02:00 The Guard-PG15 17:00 Regarding Henry-PG15 04:30 Futbol Mundial 04:00 Mad Buddies-PG15 19:00 Gone-PG15 05:00 Amlin Challenge Cup 06:00 Ghostbusters-PG 21:00 A Dangerous Woman-PG15 07:00 Snooker Masters 08:00 House Arrest-FAM 23:00 Girl, Interrupted-18 11:00 ICC Cricket 360 10:00 The Money Pit-PG15 11:30 PGA European Tour Weekly 12:00 Mad Buddies-PG15 12:00 Live PGA European Tour 14:00 Raising Arizona-PG15 16:00 Inside The PGA Tour 16:00 The Money Pit-PG15 01:00 Red Dawn-PG15 16:30 Live Champions Tour 18:00 Delirious-PG15 03:00 Pitch Perfect-PG15 19:30 PGA European Tour 20:00 Revenge Of The Nerds II: Nerds 05:00 Thunderstruck-PG In Paradise-PG15 07:00 We Bought A Zoo-PG 22:00 Jackass: Number Two-R 09:00 Beastly-PG15 11:00 Pitch Perfect-PG15 13:00 Chimpanzee-PG 02:00 Trans World Sports 14:30 Sky Force-FAM 03:00 NFL Gameday 16:15 Beastly-PG15 03:30 Live NHL 18:00 The Hobbit: An Unexpected 06:30 Inside The PGA Tour Journey-PG 07:00 PGA European Tour 01:00 The Presence-PG15 21:00 Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth-U 11:30 Snooker 03:00 Darling Companion-PG15 23:00 Flight-18 15:30 ICC Cricket 360 05:00 Waiting For Forever-PG15 16:00 Live Snooker 07:00 My Own Love Song-PG15 20:00 Amlin Challenge Cup 09:00 The Presence-PG15 22:00 Live Snooker 11:00 Darling Companion-PG15 13:00 StreetDance 2-PG15 01:00 The Fantastic Adventure Of The 15:00 The Chateau Meroux-PG15 Chris Pine Ugly Duckling 17:00 The Man Inside-PG15 Reboots Tom 02:30 Angel’s Friends 00:00 Futbol Mundial 18:45 Silver Linings Playbook-PG15 04:15 Arthur Christmas 00:30 Amlin Challenge Cup 21:00 Zero Dark Thirty-18 06:00 Zambezia 02:30 Asian Tour Golf 23:45 The Entitled-PG15 08:00 Dragon Hunters 07:00 Trans World Sport Clancy’s Hero in Slight 10:00 Shark Tale 08:00 Live Asian Tour Golf 11:30 Ben 10: Race Against Time 12:00 Amlin Challenge Cup 13:00 Arthur Christmas 14:00 Trans World Sport 14:45 Camp Nowhere 15:00 FEI Equestrian World But Spry Spy Game 16:30 Arthur’s Missing Pal 15:30 FEI Equestrian World 18:00 Shark Tale 16:00 Dubai World Cup Carnival 01:15 Color Of Night-18 20:00 Snowflake , The White Gorilla 20:00 Trans World Sport lways necessary in any successful from Cathy, now his girlfriend but not 03:15 When Love Is Not Enough-PG15 22:00 Camp Nowhere 21:00 PDC Worlds Darts airport novel of the action-espi- yet his wife, Ryan heads to Moscow to 05:00 Blue-Eyed Butcher-18 23:45 Arthur’s Missing Pal Championship A onage genre is the meeting of dig deeper, bringing him face to face the Diabolical Earth-Shattering Plan with steely-eyed financier Cheravin with The One Man Who Can Stop It. And (Branagh, entertainingly hammy), who’s since Jack Ryan, the hero of many such clearly been cooking up something dia- successful tomes by the late Tom bolical with a stone-faced higher-up (an Clancy, gets a big-screen reboot in “Jack uncredited Mikhail Baryshnikov) at the Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” it will come as Kremlin. no surprise that both of those ingredi- All of which leads to lots of spy stuff, ents come into play. and Ryan’s first kill, and a break-in at a And even if “Shadow Recruit” isn’t up big glass skyscraper that’s right out of to the recent highs of the 007 series, it’s the Shanghai sequence of “Skyfall” and a zippy and exciting little cloak and dag- a kidnapping and lots of chasing and ger tale that’s entertaining enough to even an explosion or two. (Good thing, make a new Ryan franchise seem like since the dots in Adam Kozad and David something worth anticipating. Koepp’s script are frequently tricky to We meet this version of the character connect.) - played by Chris Pine, and on the heels Branagh, to his credit, gets more of his contributions to the rebooted right than wrong with this kind of “Star Trek” movies, we can officially clas- globe-trotting action: big moments, like sify him as Hollywood’s go-to Mr. Do- Ryan breaking into and then sneaking Over - working on a PhD in Economics out of Cheravin’s office as Harper keeps in London when the attacks of tabs from afar, feel tense and exciting, September 11, 2001, take place. while the more close-up stuff - the heli- (Director Kenneth Branagh uses just copter crash in Afghanistan, a hand-to- enough news footage to make the hand fight in the back of a van - tends to event essential to the plot without be shot and edited in confuse-o-vision. showing so much carnage as to be The character of Ryan has always exploitative.) been a tricky balance; you have to A year and a half later, Lt. Jack Ryan is believe him in a knife fight and you also flying in a helicopter over Afghanistan have to buy him as someone who when he’s shot out of the sky and grave- turned in a lengthy report about statisti- ly injured. Stateside, Ryan recovers at cal averages, but Pine makes both Walter Reed, where he meets two halves convincing. He brings the physi- essential people: Cathy (Keira Knightley, cality of James T. Kirk and the charismat- with an endearingly gawky American ic wonkishness he brought to the Los accent), the medical student who push- Angeles stage production of “Farragut es the wounded Marine through physi- North,” playing the character that Ryan cal therapy, and Harper (Kevin Costner), Gosling would portray in the film ver- who recruits Ryan into the Central sion, “The Ides of March.” Intelligence Agency. Knightley gets to be more than just Harper wants Ryan to return to The Girl here, and Costner seems to school, get his doctorate and then go to have finally made the transition from work on Wall Street, looking for the the hero to the mysterious man on the money that funds terrorist groups. park bench who’s got all the answers. Jump to a decade or so later, when Ryan These three leads click well, and if the finds just that, with a Russian firm franchise gods smile down on them, occluding its accounts just as the U.S. they’ll presumably get chased through (and the UN) approve a Turkish oil more foreign capitals in any number of pipeline over Russia’s protests. sequels. As diabolical plots go, Hiding his secret government gig Hollywood could do worse. — Reuters THE GUARD ON OSN MOVIES COMEDY.