Screen gems

Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13): Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reunite for this sequel to their low-lowbrow cult comedy hit. No, that is not a typo in the title. It’s a clue of what you’re in store for.

Rosewater (R): Jon Stewart takes a break from his Daily Show hosting duties to write and direct this fact-based drama about a Tehran-born journalist (Gael Garcia Bernal) who spent 118 days in captivity being tortured and lived to tell about it.

Beyond the Lights (PG-13): A talented musician (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) on the brink of stardom struggles with the baggage of fame and success.

Rene Rodriguez

Futurama (8 p.m. Sunday, Fox): The beloved cult show lives again — for one night at least. In a crossover with The Simpsons, the Planet Express crew — including cranky robot Bender — time-travels to 21st century Springfield to prevent a global disaster.

The Newsroom (9 p.m. Sunday, HBO): The third and final season of Aaron Sorkin’s controversial series finds our cable TV newshounds facing two explosive situations: the possibility of a hostile takeover of the network, and leaked classified documents that unleash a legal firestorm.

Arrow (8 p.m. Wednesday, The CW): It seems that our masked vigilante has a crazed fan. Tonight we meet a young woman named Cupid (Amy Gumenick), who might be taking her obsessive love of Oliver to the extreme.

Scandal (9 p.m. Thursday, ABC): Only two more episodes before the show takes a winter break, and tonight’s hour is titled “The Last Supper.” We don’t like the sound of that.

Chuck Barney

Contra Costa Times

This story was originally published November 6, 2014 at 4:35 PM with the headline "Screen gems."