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13:00
Leave Her to Heaven
(1945) Riveting film noir melodrama starring Gene Tierney as an irredeemably evil, possessive woman who resorts to murder.A young couple are slowly torn apart by jealousy. Noir thriller starring Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde
With a name like Leave Her To Heaven, John Stahl's movie could only be a film noir. Adapted from the book by top thriller writer Ben Ames Williams, the picture is in fact a fine example of the form with top performances from genre stalwarts Gene Tierney (Night And The City) and Cornel Wilde (The Big Combo).

15:05
The Emperor's New Clothes
(2000) A quirky period drama, suggesting an alternate ending for one of history's most famous dictators.A quirky period drama, suggesting an alternate ending for one of history's most famous dictators. Ian Holm plays Napoleon Bonaparte, whose botched escape plan leads him into an unexpected new life
Director Alan Taylor's follow-up to 1995's bittersweet comic drama Palookaville inhabits a strange, occasionally awkward space between satirical comedy and period drama. Hijacking a central conceit that's been around since 'The Prince And The Pauper', the story asks what would have happened if, instead of dying in exile on the island of St Helens in 1821, defeated emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Holm) escaped and attempted to regain the throne of France? And what if that attempt went spectacularly wrong?

17:10
The Drum
(1938) Alexander Korda's spectacular melodrama is set on the Northwest Frontier of India where young prince Sabu helps the British defeat his evil uncle.The natives threaten to overthrow their British masters in this Raj drama created by the Korda brothers and starring their prize discovery Sabu
Arguably the most politically incorrect of the Korda brothers' British Empire picture, few people are willing to champion The Drum in the same way as, say, Elephant Boy or their adaptation of The Jungle Book. Like those films, this rather unsavoury tale of knavish Indian natives stars Sabu, and, as such, it is worthy of your attention

19:00
Project X
(1987) Matthew Broderick stars as Jimmy Garrett, a trainee air force pilot assigned to teach chimps to use flight simulators.A young army intern becomes attached to the chimps being used in a top secret military project. Kids adventure movie starring Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt
He's now famous for being married to Sarah-Jessica Parker and for taking Broadway by storm in 'The Producers'. But there was a time when Matthew Broderick was best known for playing cocky teenagers - this in spite of the fact that he didn't even make his movie debut until he'd turned 21. Already something a stage veteran (he first worked on the New York stage aged 17) by the time he came to Hollywood, it was Broderick's good fortune that his boyishness allowed him to play well beneath his years. So while he was 22 when he threatened global security in War Games and 24 when he starred in John Hughes's Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Broderick had notched up his quarter century when he was cast in Project X

21:00
The Transporter
(2002) After delivering an unspecified package to a villa in the south of France, US underworld transporter Frank finds himself hunted.After delivering an unspecified package to a villa in the south of France, US underworld "transporter" Frank finds himself hunted by both Triads and the law. Euro action adventure starring Jason Statham
Alright, so it's not up there with 'Gosh, that was a clever Jan De Bont film' or 'Blimey, Arnold Schwarzenegger was great as King Lear' on the scale of sentences you thought you'd never hear, but - you have to admit - the words 'Jason Statham is bloody marvellous in this film' are surprising.


22:40
Six Shooter
(2005) Award-winning short film from British writer-director Martin McDonagh.Award-winning short film from British writer-director Martin McDonagh.

23:20
Bright Young Things
(2003) Stephen Fry's directorial debut, based on Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies.Sex, drugs, dancing and jazz: Stephen Fry's directorial debut is an adaptation of 'Vile Bodies', Evelyn Waugh's inter-war satire on hedonistic young aristocrats
Bright Young Things In interviews to promote Bright Young Things, Stephen Fry drew parallels between his film and Trainspotting: both are literary adaptations which observe social cliques intent on pursuing personal pleasure, whatever the cost. Certainly the writer-director gives his first feature a rapid tempo, which is at odds with traditional notions of heritage cinema. The cast hurtle through a series of extravagant parties and soirees, the quick-fire editing and loud jazz conveying the sense of lives played out at a heady pace amidst the glare of photographers' flashlights.

01:20
The Cat's Meow
(2001) Charlie Chaplin and magnate William Randolph Hurst feud over the love of a young woman. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley.A notorious Hollywood rumour brought to life. Charlie Chaplin and magnate William Randolph Hurst feud over the love of a young woman. Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley star
"I just love movies, the universal language of morality, politics or any other thing I can put in their head." So says newspaper magnate and movie mogul William Randolph Hearst, stalking the deck of his enormous yacht while taking pot shots at seagulls. Hearst, one inspiration for Citizen Kane and producer of nearly 200 movies, is a fitting subject for cinephile director Peter Bogdanovich. After all, he once lived with Orson Welles.
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13:00
(1988) "Crocodile" Dundee II
Film Having scored a massive box-office hit with the first movie, Paul Hogan could be forgiven for reprising the role of Mick "Crocodile" Dundee here. Less excusable, however, is the misguided attempt to blend the inspired comedy of the original with the kind of rescue adventure that was old hat in the long-gone days of the film serial. But Hogan is as amiable as before and there are funny moments, especially in his outback approach to urban life and in the attitudes of the Aborigines towards the city slickers who have kidnapped Mick's journalist girlfriend, played again by Hogan's real-life wife, Linda Kozlowski.

15:00
(1953) Destination Gobi
Film A weird Second World War "western", with a US Navy contingent sent to observe weather conditions in the Gobi desert where they join forces with the Mongol hordes to fight the Japanese. Richard Widmark delivers his usual no-nonsense performance in what is a load of old nonsense, despite the fact that it claims to be a true story. Robert Wise, later the director of The Sound of Music and The Sand Pebbles, keeps the desert scenery shifting while the story, which even finds time for romance between a marine and a Mongol maiden, remains fairly static.

17:00
(1954) Prince Valiant
Film "Read the script of Prince Valiantat last. Ha ha," wrote James Mason in his autobiography. This jovial Arthurian spectacle, based on the comic strip by Harold Foster, is in that strange dialect called Hollywood Archaic, a tongue known to no-one except Hollywood executives with names like Spyros P Skouras, the man who ran 20th Century-Fox at the time and who was once described by Billy Wilder as the only Greek tragedy he knew. Mason stars as Sir Brack, a Knight of the Round Table, and Robert Wagner in his first leading role plays Valiant, the son of a beleaguered Swedish king, who arrives in Camelot seeking assistance in the clanking armour and sword department. Janet Leigh is on hand to swoon whenever Wagner's around, but goodness knows why considering the terrible wig he had to wear.

19:00
(1987) Project X
Film There is plenty going on in this pleasing piece of monkey business, but it still nose-dived straight into video hell. Matthew Broderick stars as a cocky USAF pilot who is sent to a strategic weapons unit to care for the chimpanzees being used to test flight simulators. However, when he learns that they are being subjected to radiation, he decides to stop the programme before Virgil, an orphan chimp trained in sign language, is strapped into the hot seat. Helen Hunt proves an able accomplice, but Jonathan Kaplan fails either to sustain the suspense or sidestep the slushy ending.

21:00
(2002) Road to Perdition
Film Director Sam Mendes here follows up his superlative Oscar winner American Beauty with another riveting, intelligent drama imbued with lyrical imagery. Based on a graphic novel set during the Depression era, it features Tom Hanks as a feared hitman working for Irish-American Mob boss Paul Newman, who regards him as a son. Professional and familial loyalties become blurred when Hanks's own family is targeted, forcing him to take to the road with his eldest son, as he embarks on a systematic course of revenge against his betrayers. Comparable to the Coen brothers' Miller's Crossing, this evocative gangster movie boasts superb photography, production design and score, which utterly transport the audience back to moody 1930s Chicago. Cast against type, Hanks - whose haunted eyes speak volumes - is a model of unruffled understatement, while an intimidating Newman radiates his usual strong presence. Jude Law's eccentric killer feels too much like a colourful movie creation, but is the only minor setback in a remarkable second feature from Mendes.

23:00
(2000) Love & Sex
Film In this perceptive romantic comedy from writer/director Valerie Breiman, Famke Janssen plays a magazine journalist who, while re-writing a feature about love and relationships, muses on her own experiences. Though she can recall a whole candelabra of old flames, Janssen's thoughts keep returning to a key romance with artist Adam (Jon Favreau). While Breiman doesn't cover any new ground, the combined energies of her snappy script and the two lead performances - especially that of Swingers star Favreau - will have you nodding as you watch the pair go through all of the highs, lows and pitfalls of a vital relationship.


00:45
(1999) Deterrence
Set in the near future, this political thriller centres around nuclear brinksmanship between Iraq and America.

 

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13:00
You Were Never Lovelier
(1942) Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth are paired for the second time in their careers in this knock-out musical.Hayworth and Astaire were never the most obvious or comfortable of pairings, but they work out pretty well in this confection. She's the daughter of an interfering, rich and traditional Argentinean aristocrat (Menjou), feeling the pressure to get married from him and her younger sisters, who won't be allowed their own nuptials until she ties the knot. When American dancer Astaire appears on the scene, Daddy does not approve.

15:00
Pushover
(1954) Fred McMurray plays Paul Sheridan, a detective assigned to the squad in pursuit of two armed bank robbers.

16:50
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
(1959) Having inherited a failing gunsmith business, a quintessential Englishman (Kenneth More) decides that the real market for his wares is the Wild West.Having inherited a failing gunsmith business, quintessential Englishman Jonathan Tibbs (Kenneth More) decides that the real market for his wares is in the Wild West. And after falling foul of both Cowboys and Indians, he finds himself conned into becoming the law man in the lawless town of Fractured Jaw, in this spoof Western which also co-stars Jayne Mansfield.

19:00
Heaven Can Wait
(1978) Snatched by an angel before his time, an American footballer returns to Earth in the body of a millionaire.Snatched by an angel before his time, an American footballer returns to Earth in the body of a millionaire. Starring Warren Beatty, who also co-scripted and co-directed
Heaven Can Wait Despite being based on a play that was first adapted for the screen as 1941's Here Comes Mr Jordan, Heaven Can Wait is a quintessentially 1970s Hollywood movie. The film reunited former superstar couple Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, who had starred together during that golden age of intelligent Hollywood masterpieces in McCabe And Mrs Miller (1971) and Shampoo (1975). By 1978, when Heaven Can Wait was made, the era was over, and while both stars were confirmed icons, their most prolific times and significant work was behind them. (Indeed, neither considered acting the most important aspect of their lives, and Beatty has only appeared in seven more films since.)

21:00
Boat Trip
(2002) Two straight friends in search of easy women accidentally book on to a gay cruise. Farce starring Cuba Gooding Jr and featuring Roger Moore.Two straight friends in search of easy women accidentally book on to a gay cruise. Unfortunate farce starring Cuba Gooding Jr and featuring Roger Moore
Boat Trip Somewhere in this embarrassing comedy is a vaguely credible comment about how gay culture can appear surreal to naive straight eyes. However, Boat Trip relies on the most simplistic shorthand for creating an on-screen gay scene: it's all buff men in chaps, high camp and cabaret, like outtakes from The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert. There's even a moment featuring an emotional queen singing 'I Will Survive' at the piano. Lacking the skill to make the point effectively, the film instead falls back on standard movie messages: ignorance can be easily alleviated; people who fall in love while labouring under an illusion can overcome the lie to live happily ever after.

22:45
The Sea Inside
(2004) Alejandro Amenabar's Oscar-winning drama is based on the life of Ramon Sampedro, played by Javier Bardem.The true story of a Spanish quadriplegic campaigning to get the law changed so that he may choose to end his life without recrimination for those who help him. Javier Bardem stars in this dramatisation from Alejandro Amenábar, director of The Others
The Sea Inside After his international success with The Others, Alejandro Amenábar could easily have gone to Hollywood to feed at the studio trough. Instead, he returned to Spain to create a beautiful, heart-wrenching work that will have you in floods of tears by the final quarter. Based on a true story, it might be easy to dismiss Mar Adentro as a 'disease-of-the-week' movie, were it not for Javier Bardem's incredible turn as Ramón Sampedro.

01:10
Jump Tomorrow
(2001) A gorgeously sweet-natured, romantic road movie.A gorgeously sweet-natured, romantic road movie. An unassuming Nigerian-American shys away from his arranged marriage and falls for a friendly young Spanish woman he meets at an airport in New York
A playful, endearing comedy, Jump Tomorrow follows the fortunes of Nigerian-American George (Adebimpe) over the three-day lead-up to his arranged marriage. Having not seen his intended, a childhood friend, for several years, George is nonplussed about the big day. At least until he encounters Gerard, a scruffy, demonstrative, middle-aged Frenchman at the airport. George was supposed to meet his fianceé, but got the wrong day, while Gerard is saying farewell to his girlfriend, who rejects his marriage offer and jumps on a plane. George also has a brief encounter with the effusive, friendly Alicia, a Spanish girl who borrows a pen, invites him to a party and leaves George smitten.

 

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13:00
The Dark Corner
(1946) Although relatively unknown, this is a rattlingly good and cleverly plotted film noir, skilfully directed by Henry Hathaway. It's marred only by too-obvious studio sets and a bland leading man in Mark Stevens, who's not quite tough enough as the private eye framed by his former partner. Still, there's a nicely etched performance from, of all people, Lucille Ball (in her pre-I Love Lucy days) as a hard-boiled secretary, and welcome character work from art dealer Clifton Webb and thug William Bendix. Constance Collier also has a notable cameo, and the crisp black-and-white photography is typical of 20th Century-Fox films of the period.



15:00
Very Important Person
(1961) The key to this winning comedy is a witty script by Jack Davies and Henry Blyth that cleverly lampoons many of the conventions and stereotypes of the prisoner-of-war picture, a staple of the British film industry for over a decade. The polished playing helps, mind you. Stanley Baxter gives one of his best film performances as a PoW posing as a high-ranking Nazi in a bid to free scientist James Robertson-Justice, while the deft comic support from Leslie Phillips, Eric Sykes and the deliciously deadpan Richard Wattis is of a very high order.



17:00
Dark Command
(1940) After John Wayne's success opposite Claire Trevor in Stagecoach, his home studio, Republic, promoted him from B-westerns to this big-budget effort in which he was re-teamed with Trevor. Wayne plays the simple cowpoke who successfully runs for marshal to impress his girl and, as a result, the much better qualified other candidate, Walter Pidgeon, turns to a life of crime. Action specialist Raoul Walsh was imported to direct and the film lurches between static dialogue scenes and bursts of action. There's a celebrated stunt, arranged by Yakima Canutt, in which four men ride a wagon and team off a bluff into water 50 feet below - the stuntmen knew what they were doing, but let's hope the horses didn't mind.


18:45 Tea with Mussolini
(1999) Franco Zeffirelli here turns the camera onto his own life as a young boy growing up in Mussolini's Italy of the 1930s. Following his mother's death, the young Luca is rescued from the prospect of life in an orphanage by an eccentric group of expatriate women dubbed "Scorpioni". We assume Luca is Zeffirelli himself, not that he's the central character of the film - he's more the eyes through which we see these corseted and costumed women, who are like refugees from a Merchant Ivory drama. Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lily Tomlin and Cher give boisterously strong performances as the gaggle who gather over tea to gossip, and who act as unofficial minders and teachers to Luca. As it continues, the movie becomes a more conventional wartime story, ultimately making the drama a series of anecdotes rather than a rich character piece.



21:00
Happy Gilmore
(1996) Adam Sandler has come on a bit since he made this knockabout sports comedy in which he stars as Happy Gilmore, a second-rate ice-hockey player whose thuggish tactics are the only thing keeping him on the team. When his slap-shot is noticed by Carl Weathers and turned into a golfer's drive, Gilmore sees a way of earning enough cash on the fairway to save his granny's home from the depredations of the IRS. It's typical no-brainer fare, but the slapstick action does raise the occasional laugh



22:40
Swimming Pool
(2003) Charlotte Rampling's emotionally repressed crime writer and publisher Charles Dance's carefree daughter, Ludivine Sagnier, encounter each other in France when Rampling takes a working break to gain inspiration for her next book, in this teasingly ambiguous study of creative angst and sexual tension. Director François Ozon continues to pry into the psyche of the vulnerable, while Yorick Le Saux's cinematography is key to establishing the contrast between the drab frustration of London and the scorching temptation of the southern French hideaway of Luberon. This in turn serves to reinforce the differences between the two women. But it's the skill with which Ozon and his stars explore clashing attitudes and universal urges that ensures this knowing melodrama is compelling viewing right up to its mischievous conclusion. .



00:40
Natural Born Killers
(1994) Oliver Stone's director's cut of this controversial and violent film, based on a story by a certain Quentin Tarantino.

 

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13:00
Three Coins in the Fountain
(1954) Jean Negulesco directs this romantic drama with a delightful light touch, with the central location Rome as much a star as the three leads.The settings in Rome, captured here in CinemaScope are as much a star of this film as the trio of women (McGuire, Peters and McNamara) who take a trip to the Italian capital and are convinced that tossing coins into the Trevi Fountain will provide the solution to their unfulfilled romantic dreams. Given that this is the stuff of movies, you can pretty much guess the outcome, but the journey to true love is undeniably sweet.

15:00
Blithe Spirit
(1945) Rex Harrison plays a writer who's haunted by his first wife and harangued by his second to solve his ghostly problem. Directed by David Lean.Vintage tale of romance and haunting from David Lean, based on the play by Noel Coward
David Lean's third feature served Noel Coward's witty supernatural comedy fairly well though, despite the Oscar-winning special effects by Tom Howard, it remains somewhat theatrical.

16:55
Pursued
(1947) Robert Mitchum plays Jeb Rand, a man haunted by childhood memories which lead him into a bitter feud with his adoptive family, the Callums.

18:55
Crocodile Dundee II
(1988) Paul Hogan returns as Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee in John Cornell's sequel to the hit comedy original.Further adventures of Paul Hogan's Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee, this time pursued from New York back to the Australian Outback by vengeful drug dealers
Crocodile Dundee II One of the common mistakes when making a sequel to a smash-hit film is the assumption that because people came out in droves the first time, they're all gagging to go back again. This sorry sequel to a one-joke one-off is a classic example of such optimistic (ie greedy) thinking.

21:00
Pan's Labyrinth
(2006) In Guillermo Del Toro's Oscar-winning fairytale for adults, fascism struggles to trample an innocent's imagination.In Guillermo Del Toro's Oscar-winning fairytale for adults, fascism struggles to trample an innocent's imagination
In the imagination of filmmakers, there is something about the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and its immediate aftermath that lends itself to the innocent, often fanciful perspective of a child. So Victor Erice's The Spirit Of The Beehive (1973) presented an idyllic Spanish postwar countryside through the eyes of a girl obsessed with James Whale's Frankenstein, and Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone (2001) seamlessly merged the inexorable advance of fascism with a ghost story unfolding in a rural school for boys.

23:10
Maurice
(1986) James Ivory's Oscar-nominated adaptation of E M Forster's semi-autobiographical novel looks at the lives of three gay men in Edwardian Britain.Upper class Cambridge students James Wilby and Hugh Grant struggle with their homosexuality in the Merchant Ivory adaptation of EM Forster's novel
Maurice offers everything we expect from a Merchant Ivory film - beautiful locations, a who's who of top British actors and an insight into the world of the repressed upper classes. On top of that, however, we get a delicately handled expression of homosexual love and an account of the difficulty of being gay at a time when it was illegal for men to have sex.

01:50
The Crazies
(1973) A military plane crashes near a small town, infecting the water supply with a deadly virus that causes insanity then death...An experimental biological weapon is accidentally released into the water supply of a small American town in this prescient thriller from director George A Romero
The Crazies Widely regarded as the most successful of the films Romero directed between 1968's Night Of The Living Dead and 1978's Dawn Of The Dead, The Crazies is a variation on the zombie theme that made the filmmaker into such a cult horror icon.

 

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13:00pm Very Important Person (U) 1961

A stuck-up Allied scientist lands in a concentration camp during a reconnaissance mission over Germany. His bizarre attitude and a series of misunderstandings soon earn him the enmity of his fellow inmates, who suspect he's a spy but luckily a plucky British officer vows to launch a rescue effort.

14:50pm Three Came Home (12) 1950

A writer, her husband and the couple's young son are captured by Japanese forces and soon become separated in a tough prison camp.

16:50pm Prince Valiant (U) 1954

Robert Wagner takes the title role in this lively adventure, based on the newspaper comic-strip by Hal Foster. He plays the noble Viking knight who is invited to King Arthur's court, only for sinister onlookers to plot his and the ruler's demise.

18:50pm Heaven Can Wait (PG) 1978

Warren Beatty plays a good-natured American Football player who is taken to Heaven prematurely and has to return to Earth in another body.

20:50pm George Clooney on Leatherheads

The actor and director discusses his latest film, set in the early days of American football in the 1920s

21:00pm Monster-in-Law (12) 2005

An unlucky-in-love woman thinks she's finally landed on her feet when she meets the hunk doctor of her dreams. But his mother proves to be an overprotective nightmare who's convinced the blushing bride is Miss Wrong and hatches a plan to drive her away.

22:55pm American Splendor (15) 2003

Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz.

00:55am The Man from Elysian Fields (15) 2001

A writer desperate for money takes a job at an escort agency providing wealthy women with intelligent male company. As he struggles to keep his new job a secret from his wife, he finds his latest client is the wife of an author he admires, and sees a chance to get the literary acclaim that has escaped him.

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13:00
One Fine Day
Film in this warm-hearted but underwritten romantic comedy, George Clooney stars as a newspaper reporter saddled with parental responsibilities when he's forced to look after his five-year-old daughter while his ex-wife is on honeymoon. Into his life comes Michelle Pfeiffer, who's struggling to hold down a job and bring up a child, and the couple reluctantly agree to help each other out - only to find that what can go wrong naturally does. Clooney, Pfeiffer and Mae Whitman (as Clooney's daughter) are suitably charming, but they are all let down by a very bratty and irritating performance from Alex D Linz (of Home Alone 3 fame) as Pfeiffer's hideous son, and the uninspired direction of Michael Hoffman.



15:00
The Awful Truth
Film This is a wonderful example of Cary Grant at his screwball comic best, playing one half of a sniping, divorcing couple, who trade insults like gunfire and seek to spoil each other's future plans. Irene Dunne is the superb foil for Grant's laconic asides, and the two leads are assisted by a great supporting cast, which includes Ralph Bellamy and Cecil Cunningham. Leo McCarey's assured and fluid direction was rightly rewarded with an Oscar. Many stars, including Tom Hanks and Hugh Grant, have laid claim to Grant's mantle, but this movie illustrates once again that they are light years away from the man at his best.


16:00
16:45 I Was a Male War Bride
Film In this hilarious comedy of errors, French army officer Cary Grant marries American WAC Ann Sheridan and attempts to get to the States using the "war bride" bill. Director Howard Hawks wrings every ounce of humour from this bizarre situation, making splendid use of European locations (with interiors filmed at Shepperton Studios), and his cast could scarcely be improved upon. This is one of Grant's cleverest, most subtle performances, but the breezy Sheridan is more than a match for him: just watch that timing in the "sleeplessness in the guest house" sequence, and the increasing sense of frustration as an uncredited Lionel Murton tells Grant again and again, "you can't sleep here" (the film's British release title).



18:00
18:45 George Clooney on Leatherheads
Interests George Clooney talks about Leatherheads, which he directs and stars in, a comedy about the birth of professional American football in the 1920s.



18:55
One Fine Day
Film in this warm-hearted but underwritten romantic comedy, George Clooney stars as a newspaper reporter saddled with parental responsibilities when he's forced to look after his five-year-old daughter while his ex-wife is on honeymoon. Into his life comes Michelle Pfeiffer, who's struggling to hold down a job and bring up a child, and the couple reluctantly agree to help each other out - only to find that what can go wrong naturally does. Clooney, Pfeiffer and Mae Whitman (as Clooney's daughter) are suitably charming, but they are all let down by a very bratty and irritating performance from Alex D Linz (of Home Alone 3 fame) as Pfeiffer's hideous son, and the uninspired direction of Michael Hoffman.



21:00
21:00 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Film "Based upon Homer's Odyssey" runs the opening title, which - as well as setting the tongue-in-cheek tone of this Coen brothers' comedy - also happens to contain more than an element of truth. The eighth collaborative effort produced and directed by Ethan and Joel Coen concerns the attempts of escaped convict Ulysses Everett McGill (a nicely self-mocking George Clooney) to get back to his wife Penny (Holly Hunter in a cameo appearance), and the picaresque adventures he has on the way. The title derives from the 1941 satirical comedy Sullivan's Travels by Preston Sturges, whose humorous spirit hangs over this episodic tale. The movie also contrives to encapsulate every con-on-the-run picture one has ever seen, as well as southern period crime dramas. Yet again, the Coens' cinematic alchemy has worked a treat.



23:00
23:05 From Dusk till Dawn
Film Delivering everything you'd expect from a splatter-action horror bearing scriptwriter Quentin Tarantino's name, this in-your-face shocker from director Robert Rodriguez juggles sharp dialogue, excessive violence, great special effects and bad taste with stylish verve. Tarantino and George Clooney play two crooks heading south of the border, who take preacher Harvey Keitel's family hostage and end up under attack from bloodthirsty vampires, undead strippers and Hell's Angels when they hide out in a sleazy Mexican bar. Energetic film-making and engaging performances keep this hilarious gore-fest firing on all its raucously tongue-in-cheek cylinders.

 

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14:00 The Pink Panther

(1964) The first outing for one of madcap genius Peter Sellers' most celebrated roles, Inspector Clouseau.



16:15 The Siege at Red River

(1954) Rudolph Mate's lavish action film stars Van Johnson as a Confederate agent behind the North's lines during the American Civil War.



17:55 The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

(1959) Having inherited a failing gunsmith business, a quintessential Englishman (Kenneth More) decides that the real market for his wares is the Wild West.



19:55 Made in America

(1993) When Zora does a simple blood experiment at school, she discovers the man she thought was her father can't be.


22:00 Pan's Labyrinth

(2006) In Guillermo Del Toro's Oscar-winning fairytale for adults, fascism struggles to trample an innocent's imagination.



00:10 Crimson Rivers

(2000) Jean Reno is a tough city cop assigned to investigate a brutal murder at a college in the Alps.

2:10 One Night in Mongkok

(1999) A gritty crime story set on the teeming streets of Hong Kong. Daniel Wu plays a would-be assassin hunted by a weary team of cops.

 

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14:00 The Dark Corner

(1946) Quality film noir from Henry Hathaway, cunningly plotted and ominously atmospheric.



16:10 Pursued

(1947) Robert Mitchum plays Jeb Rand, a man haunted by childhood memories which lead him into a bitter feud with his adoptive family, the Callums.



18:20 When Eight Bells Toll

(1971) Anthony Hopkins stars in Etienne Perier's thriller as a tough navy secret service agent called in to track down gold bullion smugglers.


20:15 The Man with One Red Shoe

(1985) Tom Hanks stars as the innocent victim of CIA infighting in Stan Dragoti's spy comedy. Also stars Dabney Coleman, Jim Belushi and Carrie Fisher.



22:00 Happy Gilmore

(1996) Adam Sandler stars as Happy Gilmore, the bad boy ice hockey player who fails to make the grade because he can't skate or control his temper.



23:40 Shaft

(2000) Samuel L Jackson plays the eponymous hero in John Singleton's tough thriller.



1:30 The Crow: Wicked Prayer

(2005) A hell-bound gang leader murders a young man who returns as the avenging Crow. Horror sequel starring Edward Furlong and David 'Angel' Boreanaz.

 

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13:00
Dragonwyck
(1946) Vincent Price in his first leading part as Nicholas van Ryn, the sinister master of the 19th-century mansion on the Hudson river.


15:10
Three Coins in the Fountain
(1954) Jean Negulesco directs this romantic drama with a delightful light touch, with the central location Rome as much a star as the three leads.


17:15
The Last Wagon
(1956) Richard Widmark is the orphaned son of white settlers bought up by the Comanche


19:20
Carpool
(1996) Arthur Hiller's good natured chase-comedy sees Daniel Miller as an ad-man obsessed with time-keeping.


21:00
Million Dollar Baby
(2004) Hilary Swank stars in Clint Eastwood's film as a blue-collar woman who believes she can make it to the top in the female boxing ranks.


23:30
Heartbreak Ridge
(1986) Clint Eastwood plays a tough Marine drill sergeant at odds with the officers who charge him with whipping a platoon of misfits into shape.

 

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13:00 Whirlpool

(1949) Otto Preminger directs late 1940s glamour queen Gene Tierney in an unusual tale of mental illness and murder.



15:00 Laura

(1944) Otto Preminger's sharp film stars Dana Andrews as Mark McPherson, a cynical detective who investigates the brutal murder of a beautiful woman.



16:50 Three Came Home

(1950) Powerful and fact-based drama starring Claudette Colbert as Agnes Keith.


19:00 The Return of the Musketeers

(1989) Richard Lester re-gathers Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay and Richard Chamberlain for another bout of swashbuckling deeds.



21:00 Changing Lanes

(2002) Ben Affleck and Samuel L Jackson take road-rage to the extreme as they war it out after a fender-bender in a battle of wills and wits.



23:00 Secrets and Lies

(1995) Brenda Blethyn is the woman whose mid-life crisis is further exacerbated by the unexpected appearance of the daughter she gave away at birth

 

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1.00pm The Day Will Dawn (U)

1942 Thrilling World War Two adventure about a journalist who's sent to occupied Norway by the British authorities. He's assigned to help the RAF sabotage an important German U-boat installation, and enlists the help of a local girl to aid his endeavour. However, the plan goes awry, leaving him in the hands of the enemy — and sentenced to be shot. Hugh Williams, Griffiths Jones, Deborah Kerr and Ralph Richardson head the top-drawer cast (888)



3.00pm I Was a Male War Bride (U)

1949 Suave French soldier Cary Grant is horrified to discover the only way he can accompany his new American officer wife Ann Sheridan back to the USA is by posing as a woman. Howard Hawks' classic comedy, with Marion Marshall and Randy Stewart (888)



5.10pm The Siege at Red River (PG)

1954 A Confederate secret agent lays his hands on a shipment of guns, but before he can do anything with them, he is betrayed by a former comrade and left fighting for his life behind enemy lines. Reasonable Western set during the American Civil War, starring Van Johnson, Joanne Dru and Richard Boone (888)



6.55pm The Deep End of the Ocean (12)

1999 A family grow frantic at the disappearance of their son — only to find him living in the same town a decade later. Drama, featuring a typically fine performance from Michelle Pfeiffer. Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Jonathan Jackson co-star



9.00pm Monster-in-Law (12)

2005 An unlucky-in-love woman thinks she's finally landed on her feet when she meets the hunk doctor of her dreams. But his mother proves to be an overprotective nightmare who's convinced the blushing bride is Miss Wrong and hatches a plan to drive her away. Romantic comedy, starring Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda and Michael Vartan (888)



11.00pm Naked (18)

1993 Mike Leigh's controversial drama taking a bleak and uncompromising look at Nineties life. David Thewlis stars as the ultimate angry young man, a highly intelligent dropout and rapist who leaves his northern home and travels to London, where he proceeds to antagonise everyone he meets, forcing them to question their whole existence. With Katrin Cartlidge, Lesley Sharp and Peter Wight (888)


1.30am Happy-Go-Lucky Preview A look at Mike Leigh's new comedy-drama, introduced by the director and star Sally Hawkins


1.40am American Splendor (15)

2003 Acclaimed comedy drama, based on the comics by Harvey Pekar charting his mundane but surprisingly complex life. Paul Giamatti stars as Pekar, who becomes inspired to put pen to paper after an encounter with famed artist Robert Crumb. He soon acquires a following, which leads him to a relationship with fan Joyce Brabner (Hope Davis). The film successfully captures the comics' sardonic humour and cleverly mixes fact and re-creation, with the real Pekar and Brabner chipping in to comment on the presentation of their lives (888)


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1.00pm The Wicked Lady (PG)

1945 A 17th-century noblewoman tires of her humdrum life and decides to seek a little excitement — turning to highway robbery and murder to spice up her life, as well as getting romantically involved with a caddish crook. Absolutely fabulous classic British costume drama, with Margaret Lockwood on brilliant form as the vampish villainess, and support from James Mason, Patricia Roc and Griffith Jones (888)


3.10pm The Awful Truth (U)

1937 Cary Grant and Irene Dunne are perfectly cast in this superb Oscar-winning screwball comedy as a bickering husband and wife. With each spouse convinced that the other has been unfaithful, the sniping couple decide to get divorced, but they both become intent on ruining each other's future plans. Ralph Belamy, Cecil Cunningham and Alexander D'Arcy also star


5.00pm A Ticket to Tomahawk (U)

1950 Likable comedy Western in which the daughter of a railway pioneer sets out to prove her trains can beat a rival's stagecoaches to the same destination. However, the competition soon gives way to dirty tricks and the locomotive passengers — a travelling salesman and a chorus of showgirls — soon get dragged into the conflict. Starring Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Arthur Hunnicutt and Walter Brennan. Watch out for a cameo from a very young Marilyn Monroe (888)


6.55pm Made in America (12)

1993 A school project leads a black woman to discover she's the product of artificial insemination. When she tracks down her real-life dad, she's horrified to find he's a brash, white, used-car salesman, notorious for his outrageous TV ads, and with little inclination to take on the responsibilities of parenthood. Fitfully funny romantic comedy, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Nia Long and Will Smith


9.00pm Heartbreak Ridge (15)

1986 Clint Eastwood adopts a voice of pure granite and a manner to match as a hell-raising Marine sergeant assigned to whip a squad of raw recruits into shape for the invasion of Grenada — but his old-fashioned, hard-as-nails methods meet with disapproval in certain quarters, and he's soon clashing with his superiors. Solid action adventure, which Eastwood also directed, co-starring Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn and Bo Svenson (888)



11.30pm Happy-Go-Lucky Preview A look at Mike Leigh's new comedy-drama, introduced by the director and star Sally Hawkins


11.40pm Career Girls (15)

1997 Two successful professional women are reunited for the first time since University, and recall the youthful insecurities and heady romantic trysts of their student days, tracing their development into self-assured adults. Fascinating Mike Leigh drama, starring Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman, Mark Benton, Kate Byers and Andy Serkis (888)


1.20am The Rules of Attraction (18)

2002 Black comedy adapted from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, chronicling the experiences of a group of college students as they immerse themselves in a heady combination of sex, drugs and confused relationships. Director Roger Avary (who co-wrote Pulp Fiction) injects the film with a hip and dark edge. James Van Der Beek, Ian Somerhalder, Jessica Biel and Shannyn Sossamon star (888)


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1.00pm

Witness for the Prosecution (PG)
1957 An invalid lawyer defies doctor's orders to defend a man accused of murdering his mistress, but it becomes clear the case is far from straightforward, and a series of twists and turns looks set to raise the legal expert's blood pressure. Billy Wilder's outstanding adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic courtroom drama, boasting an all-star cast including Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Elsa Lanchester (888)



3.15pm The Last Wagon (PG)

1956 The late Richard Widmark is on fantastic form as a renegade who ends up taking care of a group of youngsters who survived an attack by hostile Indians while travelling in a wagon train. Remarkable Western, directed by the underrated Delmer Daves, and co-starring Felicia Farr and Ray Stricklyn (888)



5.10pm The Man with One Red Shoe (PG)

1985 A high-ranking member of the CIA tries to bring down a rival by convincing him that innocent violinist Tom Hanks is carrying vital top-secret information. As the hapless musician is seduced by a female agent attempting to find out what he knows, his friend starts to question his sanity in the face of strange goings-on. Misfiring comedy thriller, with Lori Singer, Carrie Fisher and James Belushi (888)



7.00pm The Return of the Musketeers (PG)

1989 D'Artagnan reunites his former companions to save the Queen from the evil Cardinal Mazarin, but the latter's cunning plan pits the heroes against each other. Meanwhile, the daughter of a vanquished enemy seeks revenge on the four heroes. Lively swashbuckling adventure which just about lives up to the standards set by the first two movies. Oliver Reed, Michael York, Frank Finlay and Richard Chamberlain reprise their roles as the swashbuckling rogues alongside Kim Cattrall and C Thomas Howell. Comedy actor Roy Kinnear died part-way through the filming, and a stand-in was used in some of his scenes (888)



9.00pm Million Dollar Baby (12)

2004 Clint Eastwood directed and starred in this moving drama, which landed him a clutch of Oscar triumphs. He plays a down-on-his-luck boxing trainer abandoned by both his protege and his daughter. When a tenacious woman (Hilary Swank) from a dysfunctional family asks him to help hone her technique, he's initially dubious. However, she finally manages to win him round, and the pair soon form a strong and productive bond. With Morgan Freeman and Anthony Mackie (888)



11.30pm Taxidermia (18)

2006 Premiere. Dark comedy telling the twisted tales of three generations of a family. The film begins with the story of a military orderly relieving his sexual frustration in increasingly bizarre ways, before turning to his son, a champion in eating competitions who finds love with a fellow glutton. The film concludes with his offspring, a taxidermist who practises on the family pets. Starring Gergo Trocsanyi, Marc Bischoff and Csaba Czene



1.15am The Crow: Wicked Prayer (18)

2005 The fourth installment of the supernatural thriller series stars Edward Furlong as the latest incarnation of the undead avenger, an ex-convict murdered along with his girlfriend by a satanic cult leader as part of a ritual sacrifice. Returning from the dead to seek justice, he finds his killer is on the verge of becoming an immortal demon. With David Boreanaz, Dennis Hopper and Tara Reid


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1.00pm Carpool (PG)

1996 A stressed-out executive takes over the job of ferrying children to school. However, his already chaotic life takes a turn for the worse when he and the kids are held hostage by a down-on-his-luck carnival owner. Hilarity ensues as the youngsters throw themselves into their adventure with gusto, while their chauffeur enjoys the experience much less. Silly comedy, starring Tom Arnold, David Paymer, Rhea Perlman and Rod Steiger



2.40pm George Clooney on Leatherheads The actor and director discusses his latest film, set in the early days of American football in the 1920s


2.50pm Picnic (U)

1955 A drifter turns up in a small Kansas town looking for an old friend — the son of the richest man in town — in the hope of borrowing money. However, he causes nothing but trouble for the locals, seducing both his old pal's fiancee and a local schoolteacher. Melodrama based on William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson and Kim Novak (888)



5.05pm The Jungle Book (U)

1942 Classic version of the famous Rudyard Kipling stories about jungle boy Mowgli, who is raised by wolves before returning to his native village as an adolescent to tackle three dastardly thieves out to plunder a lost city. Starring Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen and Frank Puglia. Directed by Zoltan Korda, the man behind Storm Over the Nile and The Thief of Baghdad — which also paired him with Indian box-office icon Sabu (888)


7.05pm Happy-Go-Lucky Preview A look at Mike Leigh's new comedy-drama, introduced by the director and star Sally Hawkins


7.15pm When Eight Bells Toll (PG)

1971 A Navy intelligence agent poses as a biologist to investigate the theft of millions of pounds worth of gold bullion, stolen from ships off the British coast. However, his enquiries are met with hostility, especially when he sets his sights on a Greek tycoon who he suspects may be operating as a modern-day pirate. Slow-paced thriller that fails to grip, starring Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley and Jack Hawkins. Based on a novel by Alistair MacLean (888)



9.00pm Changing Lanes (15)

2002 Ben Affleck and Samuel L Jackson star as two men who turn a minor traffic accident into a life or death feud. Self-obsessed lawyer Gavin is on his way to file papers for a multi-million dollar case when he collides with alcoholic insurance salesman Doyle, on his way to an important custody hearing. When the accident leaves Doyle stranded and at risk of losing access to his children, he becomes determined to get even with the attorney — and when some vital documents fall into his hands, he gets that chance, setting in motion a vindictive cycle of retribution. Edge-of-the-seat thriller, which so effectively explores the idea of two perfectly ordinary men losing all perspective and tumbling out of control, it rapidly becomes rather unnerving. Amanda Peet, Toni Collette, Kim Staunton and Sydney Pollack co-star (888)



10.50pm Go (18)

1999 A group of bored teenagers are caught up in a manic series of adventures over one wild weekend, including tangling with vicious drug lords, angry strippers and vengeful mobsters. Doug Liman's offbeat drama boasts a witty, intelligent script, cleverly telling the tale from three different perspectives. Katie Holmes, Sarah Polley, William Fichtner, Desmond Askew and JE Freeman star (888)



12.50am sex, lies and videotape (18)

1989 An impotent man, who delights in recording interviews with women about their sexual experiences, has a profound effect on an old friend's troubled marriage. James Spader stars in this eye-opening, acclaimed drama, which won awards for both best film and best actor at the Cannes Film Festival, with Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher and Laura San Giacomo (888)



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1.00pm The Gentle Sex (U)

1943 Seven girls from vastly different backgrounds are brought together when they volunteer to join the Army — but the social gulfs between them cause all manner of home-grown conflict. World War Two comedy, which offers an interesting view of what life was like for women in the 1940s, but hasn't aged well. Rosamund John, Joan Greenwood, Lilli Palmer, John Justin, Joan Gates, Barbara Waring and Frederick Leister star (888)



2.55pm The Million Pound Note (U)

1954 An eccentric multi-millionaire bets his equally rich brother that, if a man is known to be wealthy, he can get by without ever spending any money, obtaining everything he needs on credit. To put this theory to the test, they give £1million to a penniless seaman, but instruct him never to spend it. Amiable comedy adapted from a story by Mark Twain, starring Gregory Peck, Jane Griffiths, Joyce Grenfell and Wilfrid Hyde White (888)



4.35pm Timberjack (U)

1954 A man returning home to take over the family lumber business clashes with his rival as he attempts to discover the reasons behind his father's death. Bland Western drama with nothing to make it stand out from the crowd, starring Sterling Hayden, David Brian, Hoagy Carmichael and Vera Ralston (888)



6.20pm George Clooney on Leatherheads The actor and director discusses his latest film, set in the early days of American football in the 1920s



6.30pm 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (U)

1954 A Victorian scientist investigating the sinking of ships in the Pacific is captured by fanatical submariner Captain Nemo, and whisked away on a series of adventures in his amazing underwater craft. Wonderful and inventive Disney fantasy which scooped an Oscar for the special effects. The excellent cast includes Kirk Douglas as a gung-ho adventurer, while James Mason is suitably intense as the power-hungry seaman. Paul Lukas and Peter Lorre also star



9.00pm The Abyss (15)

1989 Director James Cameron's sci-fi adventure, which won an Oscar for the superb special effects, telling the tale of divers who encounter a strange alien life-form while attempting to rescue survivors trapped in a stricken nuclear submarine. Ed Harris, Michael Biehn and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio star (888)



11.45pm Beneath the Planet of the Apes (15)

1969 More monkey business in the first sequel to the sci-fi classic. American astronaut James Franciscus and chimpanzee scientist Kim Hunter team up to search for the first film's missing hero (the late Charlton Heston) in the nuclear-devastated future, but encounter trouble with subterranean mutants and atomic weapons along the way. Kim Hunter and Maurice Evans also reprise their roles from the original film, although series stalwart Roddy McDowall is absent this time around (888)



1.30am Run Lola Run (15)

1998 Tom Tykwer's brilliant, innovative crime drama which offers three possible scenarios and outcomes as a woman and her boyfriend race against time to pay a drug pusher who also deals in death. The fast-paced film deservedly won worldwide acclaim and a clutch of awards, and stars Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu and Herbert Knaup


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1.00pm Whirlpool (PG)

1949 A woman falls under the spell of a murderous hypnotist who's managed to charm his way out of a secure psychiatric hospital. Glossy melodrama, starring Gene Tierney, Jose Ferrer, Richard Conte and Charles Bickford (888)



3.00pm Distant Drums (U)

1951 An Army officer mounts a daring raid through the treacherous Florida swamplands to battle a group of marauding Seminole Indians, and to rescue settlers who have been taken hostage by the tribe. Raoul Walsh's undistinguished Western adventure is held together by Gary Cooper's powerful performance. Mari Aldon, Richard Webb, Ray Teal and Arthur Hunnicutt are among the supporting cast (888)



5.00pm The Day Will Dawn (U)

1942 Thrilling World War Two adventure about a journalist who's sent to occupied Norway by the British authorities. He's assigned to help the RAF sabotage an important German U-boat installation, and enlists the help of a local girl to aid his endeavour. However, the plan goes awry, leaving him in the hands of the enemy — and sentenced to be shot. Hugh Williams, Griffiths Jones, Deborah Kerr and Ralph Richardson head the top-drawer cast (888)



6.55pm Happy-Go-Lucky Preview A look at Mike Leigh's new comedy-drama, introduced by the director and star Sally Hawkins



7.05pm Fantastic Voyage (U)

1966 A respected scientist suffers severe brain damage during a shooting, forcing a medical team to be miniaturised to microscopic size and injected inside his body to effect a miracle cure — little realising one of the minuscule passengers has sabotage on his mind. Richard Fleischer's Oscar-winning sci-fi adventure is great fun, with Raquel Welch, Stephen Boyd and Donald Pleasence heading the cast (888)



9.00pm The Fifth Element (PG)

1997 A 23rd-century New York cab driver's life is turned upside down by an attractive woman who quite literally drops into his taxi. The encounter with the mysterious beauty leads to him being flung into battle against a horde of marauding aliens at an intergalactic holiday resort. Luc Besson's colourful sci-fi adventure stars Bruce Willis in the lead role, alongside Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm and Chris Tucker (888)



11.25pm Cypher (15)

2002 A mild-mannered man starts working as an industrial spy in an attempt to liven up his life. However, when he meets a sexy femme fatale, he ends up embroiled in a dangerous game of counter-espionage and uncovers a sinister brainwashing scheme that leaves him questioning his own identity. Intriguing psychological thriller, starring Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu and Nigel Bennett (888)



1.10am Series 7: The Contenders (18)

2001 Six strangers compete in the ultimate reality TV show, the object of which is simply to stay alive — and wipe out the opposition by whatever means necessary. It soon becomes clear that the heavily pregnant reigning champion faces a tough time if she's to retain her title. Violent satire, starring Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke and Glenn Fitzgerald (888)



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1.00pm You Were Never Lovelier (U)

1942 A wealthy Argentinean hotel manager, eager for one of his daughters to settle down and get married, hatches a plan to find her a suitable husband. He tries to interest his daughter in romance by inventing an imaginary admirer who sends her notes and gifts. However, the plan backfires when the young woman falls in love with an impoverished American dancer, convinced that he is her 'mystery man”. Enticing musical comedy Starring Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou and Leslie Brooks (888)



2.50pm A Town Like Alice (PG)

1956 Jack Lee's harrowing drama is never easy viewing, but it's certainly worth the effort. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute, it explores the harsh realities of life for women prisoners of the Japanese in Malaya during World War Two, as they are forced to march for days on end, while being subjected to random beatings and torture. Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Takagi and Jean Anderson are among the top-drawer cast (888)



5.10pm A Ticket to Tomahawk (U)

1950 Likable comedy Western in which the daughter of a railway pioneer sets out to prove her trains can beat a rival's stagecoaches to the same destination. However, the competition soon gives way to dirty tricks and the locomotive passengers — a travelling salesman and a chorus of showgirls — soon get dragged into the conflict. Starring Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Arthur Hunnicutt and Walter Brennan. Watch out for a cameo from a very young Marilyn Monroe (888)



6.55pm Star Trek: Nemesis (12)

2002 The fourth and final big screen voyage for The Next Generation crew sees the Enterprise sent to form an alliance with old enemies the Romulans. The alien empire has been taken over by a new leader, who turns out to be a clone of Captain Picard. But while he claims to want peace, he has more sinister plans in mind, involving a doomsday weapon that could destroy Earth. Disappointing sci-fi adventure, starring Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Tom Hardy and LeVar Burton (888)



9.00pm Fantastic Four (PG)

2005 When a group of astronauts are exposed to cosmic rays they each develop special powers. However, one of them decides to use his new-found strength for his own nefarious ends, leaving the others to join forces and stop him. Julian McMahon stars as the villain, while Michael Chiklis gives a good performance as sensitive tough guy The Thing. Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba and Chris Evans also star (888)



11.00pm Jason X (15)

2001 When masked maniac Jason Voorhees is defrosted five centuries after being cryogenically frozen, he wakes to find himself on board a spaceship, where he embarks on a bloody mission to kill the crew. This 10th instalment in the long-running Friday the 13th horror series stars Lexa Doig, Kane Hodder, Lisa Ryder and Jonathan Potts (888)



12.45am Last Night (15)

1998 Poignant drama following the inhabitants of Toronto as they try to make their last six hours meaningful before the end of the world. While a teacher attempts to track down her favourite pupils and a man sets about fufilling his sexual fantasies, a couple contemplate a suicide pact. Starring Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie and David Cronenberg (888)



2.30am The Courtesans of Bombay (15)

1983 Merchant Ivory documentary, following the plight of Indian prostitutes in the highly-populated city. Dancers and singers by day, many of the women dream of Bollywood fame and fortune, but are forced to resort to lesser means in a desperate bid to earn money


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13:00 Picnic (Film)

Starring William Holden as Hal Carter and Kim Novak as Madge Owens, Joshua Logan's Oscar-winning film is a sweltering tale of deception, betrayal and illicit love in small-town Kansas. Passions soar when Hal, a handsome drifter rolls into town only to boil over when he falls for Madge, the fiancee of of his old friend Alan Benson.
Director: Joshua Logan, Ivan Passer
Starring: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O'Connell
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1955, PG, 4 Star)

15:10 The Wicked Lady (Film)

A bawdy romp from Gainsborough Studios. Margaret Lockwood co-stars with James Mason, who plays highwayman Captain Jerry Jackson, as 17th-century beauty Barbara Worth, who leads a double life as aristocratic lady of the manor by day and highwaywoman by night. This was Gainsborough's highest-ever grossing picture, no doubt helped by Lockwood's then-daring plunging necklines; America demanded a more demure re-shoot before they'd release the picture.
Director: Leslie Arliss
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Michael Rennie, Felix Aylmer
(Black and White, 1945, PG, 3 Star)

17:10 Jungle Book (Film)

Classic version of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories, directed by Zoltan Korda and starring Sabu as the young Indian boy who, brought up by wolves in the jungle, returns to his village as an adolescent.
Starring: Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, Rosemary DeCamp, Patricia O'Rourke
(Subtitles, 1942, U)

19:10 Memoirs of An Invisible Man (Film)

John Carpenter's comedy thriller stars Chevy Chase as Nick Halloway who, caught up in a freak accident, becomes invisible. Forced to flee the CIA, who see him as an outstanding asset, his only help is anthropologist Alice Monroe who, as well as providing the love interest, helps him come to terms with his plight. Edited for language.
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jim Norton
(Subtitles, 1992, PG, 3 Star)

21:00 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Film)

Sean Connery stars in this all-action adventure as Allan Quatermain, called out of retirement in Kenya to help the government avert a world war being fermented by master criminal The Phantom. Quatermain gathers together a top team: Dorian Gray, Captain Nemo, Mina Harker and The Invisible Man are among those recruited, each with a spectacular skill. From Venice to the wastes of Mongolia, the team face perils and death in their desperate race against time. Stephen Norrington's fantasy, set in an alternative Victorian world, is frantic fun-filled action from start to finish, with the witty script matching awesome special effects.
Director: Stephen Norrington
Starring: Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Shane West
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2003, 12, 2 Star)

23:00 Big Trouble in Little China (Film)

John Carpenter takes a rest from the horror genre to direct this enjoyable martial arts romp that's played firmly with its tongue in cheek. Kurt Russell plays Jack Burton, who agrees to pick up a friend's girlfriend from the airport. But when Miao Yin is kidnapped in front of him, Burton finds she's been abducted by sorcerer Lo Pan, the host of the spirit of an ancient Chinese warlord. He wants her for her unique green eyes, rare among Chinese women, that will rejuvenate his spirit and Burton has just hours to track down his lair and free Yin. With nods to the Indiana Jones trilogy, Carpenter enjoys setting up one exciting, exotic set piece after another while Russell wisely reprises the all-action, wise-cracking Snake Plissken from Escape from New York to enjoyable effect.
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong, Kate Burton
(1986, 15, 4 Star)

01:05 One Night in Mongkok (Film)

Alex Fong plays a cop trying to stop gang warfare breaking out after a mobster's son is shot, while a naïve hitman arrives with a job to do in a city he's never visited. While Fong tries to keep a lid on things, Wu, taken under the wing of worldly Cecilia Cheung, finds his employer has grassed him to the cops, but even they don't know his ulterior motive for taking the job. Directed by Derek Yee.
Director: Tung-Shing Yee
Starring: Cecilia Cheung, Daniel Wu, Alex Fong, Anson Leung, Kar Lok Chin, Henry Fong
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Cantonese and Mandarin with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2004, 15, 4 Star)