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Daily guide of TV movies and radio highlights

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Neighborhood Kitchens
4 p.m. WGBH (Channel 2) Chef Marcos Sanchez of Tres Gatos in Jamaica Plain on how to make tapas and churros with spiced chocolate sauce.

Radio Highlights

BSO Encore 8 p.m. WCRB (99.5) Christoph Eschenbach is the soloist and conductor for the Piano Concerto No. 12 by Mozart and Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9.

Innovation Hub 10 a.m.
WGBH-FM (89.7) Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson on brilliant new technologies.

Only a Game 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. WBUR-FM (90.9) A preview of this weekend’s NFL conference championship games.

¡Con Salsa! 10 p.m. WBUR-FM (90.9) A celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with an Afro-Latin beat.

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The Morgan Show 10 p.m. WBZ-AM (1030) Jason Werden from the Washington D.C. Spy Museum.

MOVIES

Blow 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m. (FXM) Johnny Depp plays real-life coke dealer George Jung. R (2001)

Carlito’s Way 8 p.m. (FLIX) An ex-convict tries to go straight. R (1993)

Coyote Ugly 8 p.m., 10 p.m. (BRAVO) An aspiring songwriter (Piper Perabo) takes a job in a bar. PG-13 (2000)

Flowers in the Attic 8 p.m. (LIFE) Four siblings are locked away in their grandparents’ attic. NR (2014)

Hancock 8 p.m. (5) Will Smith stars as an alcoholic superhero who gets a much-needed image makeover. PG-13 (2008)

Iron Man 8 p.m. (FX) Thrill ride based on the adventures of the Marvel comics superhero (Robert Downey Jr. PG-13 (2008)

Knight and Day 8 p.m. (38) A single woman (Cameron Diaz) and a spy (Tom Cruise) race to elude a federal agent. PG-13 (2010)

Lifeboat 8 p.m. (TCM) A character study that takes place in a lifeboat carrying the survivors of a Nazi torpedo attack. NR (1944)

Love Jones 8 p.m., 11 p.m. (TV1) Love blooms between a photographer and a writer. Larenz Tate. R (1997)

Oblivion 8 p.m. (HBO) A repairman works on a deserted Earth and encounters a mysterious woman in a space pod. PG-13 (2013)

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Step Up 3 8 p.m. (56) An NYU freshman (Adam Sevani) joins a group of street dancers in hopes of winning a dance contest. PG-13 (2010)

The Transporter 8 p.m. (ENCR) Thriller about a courier (Jason Statham) trying to bust a slave ring. Good action; incoherent plot. PG-13 (2002)

Up in Smoke 8 p.m., 11:30 p.m. (IFC) Cheech and Chong go hunting for pot, while Sgt. Stedenko (Stacy Keach) fumes. R (1978)

West Side Story 8 p.m. (44) The Bernstein-Sondheim musical about New York City street gangs. Natalie Wood. NR (1961)

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 8:30 p.m. (COM) Wacky joyride about the roller-coaster career of a NASCAR driver (Will Ferrell). PG-13 (2006)

The Blind Side 9 p.m. (FAM) A wealthy Memphis woman (Sandra Bullock) adopts a troubled but talented young football player. PG-13 (2009)

Silver Linings Playbook 9 p.m. (SHO) A bipolar man bonds with a promiscuous widow and offers to be her partner for a dance competition. R (2012)

Zombieland 9 p.m. (SYFY) Cowardly Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) and trigger-happy Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) battle zombies. R (2009)

Stealth 9:35 p.m. (ENCR) An experimental fighter plane runs amok. Dumb video-game-styled actioner. Josh Lucas. PG-13 (2005)

Continental Divide 9:45 p.m. (WAM) John Belushi in an opposites-attract romance. PG (1981)

Faithless 10 p.m. (TCM) Soap opera about once-socially prominent lovers during the Depression. NR (1932)

Stake Land 10 p.m. (SHO2) A survivalist and an orphaned teen (Connor Paolo) fight bloodsuckers and religious zealots. R (2010)

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The Devil’s Rejects 10:30 p.m. (TMC) Y Y Three psychos go on a gory killing spree in this brutal, disturbing horror yarn. Sid Haig. R (2005)

Failure to Launch 10:30 p.m. (AMC) A 35-year-old (Matthew McConaughey) won’t move out of his parents’ house. PG-13 (2006)

Maid in Manhattan 10:30 p.m. (OXY) Fluffy romance about a politician who mistakes a hotel worker (Jennifer Lopez) for a socialite. PG-13 (2002)