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FilmFour & Film Four +1 22.03.12

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11:00
Little Sparrows (Film)
Writer and director Yu-Hsiu Camille Chen's drama uses the terminal recurrence of a cancer to explore the lives and attitudes of a family. When their mother Susan's breast cancer returns at the height of an Australian summer, she informs her family that she wants to enjoy her last Christmas with them - and she doesn't want them to turn maudlin on her. As they chat and reminisce, a window is opened on the emotional lives of Susan's somewhat remote husband James and her three grown-up daughters: Nina, who is widowed with two young children; Anna, an aspiring actress unhappily married to a filmmaker; and Christine, a medical student who is yet to fully come to terms with her sexuality.
Director: Yu-Hsiu Camille Chen
Starring: Nicola Bartlett, James Hagan, Nina Deasley, Melanie Lyons, Arielle Gray, Scott Jackson
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, U, 2010, 3 Star)

12:45
Dakota Incident (Film)
In Lewis R Foster's western, which is enhanced by the spectacular photography of Ernest Haller, Dale Robertson plays bank robber John Banner, who decides to go straight. Pitching up in the small town of Christian Flats, he offers to drive the stagecoach to Laramie, despite the last one returning with the driver and passengers killed by Cheyenne warriors. Aboard the coach is a mix of the good and the bad, including bank teller John Carter, suspected of one of Banner's robberies, showgirl Amy Clarke and pro-Native American Senator Blakely. Ambushed by the Cheyenne, the group must fight for their lives.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Starring: Linda Darnell, Dale Robertson, John Lund, Ward Bond, Regis Toomey, Skip Homeier
(Subtitles, U, 1956, 2 Star)

14:35
Boomerang (Film)
Elia Kazan's Oscar-nominated classic noir thriller, based on a true-life case, stars Dana Andrews as Henry Harvey, a New England State Attorney who is determined to prove vagrant John Waldron innocent of the murder of a prominent churchman.
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams, Arthur Kennedy, Sam Levene
(Black and White, Subtitles, PG, 1947, 4 Star)

16:20
Objective, Burma! (Film)
World War II epic with Errol Flynn as the leader of a team of paratroopers who invade Burma to wipe out an important Japanese post. An unforgettable depiction of the horrors of jungle warfare.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Errol Flynn, Troy Brown Jr., William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull, Warner Anderson
(Black and White, Subtitles, PG, 1945, 4 Star)

19:05
Hocus Pocus (Film)
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Thora Birch star in this slightly dark, Disney family fantasy-comedy, directed by Kenny Ortega. Max is not happy that his family have moved to Salem, Massachusetts, and he's even less pleased that he has to look after his younger sister Dani on Halloween. While attempting to prove to his sister and his sweetheart Allison that Halloween is all just superstition and nonsense, he accidentally resurrects Winnie, Sarah and Mary, three witches put to death 300 years earlier for killing children to create rejuvenating potions. The revived ancient crones remain set on their quest for eternal youth - and only Max, Dani and Allison can stop them... Edited for content.
Director: Kenny Ortega
Starring: Jason Marsden, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1993, 3 Star)

21:00
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (Film)
A romantic comedy from director Mark Waters, who also made Freaky Friday and Mean Girls. Matthew McConaughey plays Connor Mead, a womanising bachelor who is returning to the family fold for his brother Paul's wedding. The commitment-phobic singleton has a particularly jaundiced view of love, and thinks nothing of causing chaos on his sibling's big day. But, before too much damage can be done, Connor is visited by the ghost of his late uncle, Wayne, who tells him to expect visitations from spirits intent on putting his love life back on track. And, sure enough, Allison Vandermeersh - his high school lover - materialises and points out how close he and Jenny Perroti - who is also attending the wedding - were back then. But will this spectral jolt be enough to put him right? Will Jenny be even the slightest bit interested after all these years? And what will the Ghosts of Girlfriends Present and Future have to say to the philanderer?
Director: Mark Waters
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas, Emma Stone, Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 12, 2009, 3 Star)

23:05
Benny's Video (Drama)
Austrian director Michael Haneke's chilling drama stars Arno Fisch as Benny, a 14-year-old who fills the void created by the lack of love shown to him by his parents by watching a stream of violent horror movies. The young video freak then uses his own state-of-the-art equipment to record his slaughter of a total stranger, which he then dispassionately shows to his wealthy parents. But, their response to his confession is, in many ways, even more horrific... In German, English, French and Arabic, with English subtitles. Benny's Video kicks off Film4's Extreme season and is introduced by Mark Kermode. The Extreme season screens each night at around 11.00pm, through to Thursday 29 March.
(Subtitles, 15, 1992)

01:20
Funny Games (Film)
Michael Haneke's American re-make of his 1997 German version loses none of the terror or horror in the translation. An all-American family - George, Ann and son Georgie - arrive at their summer cottage for a yachting holiday. Two polite young men, Paul and Peter introduce themselves as neighbours but suddenly and brutally instil a nihilistic, sadistic regime on the family, playing mind games and torturing them. Haneke famously makes the audience complicit to events, rewinding events, having Paul and Peter address the audience directly and making the violence happen off screen but having it still horribly audible in this claustrophobic nightmare.
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart, Boyd Gaines
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 2007, 3 Star)

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FilmFour & Film Four +1 23.03.12
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11:00
Panic in the Streets (Film)
Richard Widmark stars in Elia Kazan's thriller as Clint Reed, the public health cop on the trail of Blackie and Raymond Fitch, two gangland killers on the loose who are, unknown to them, infected with a deadly plague that could wipe out the city.
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, PG, 4 Star)

12:55
Bullwhip (Film)
When cowboy Steve Daley faces hanging for a murder he didn't commit, he has one way out: if he marries firebrand Cheyenne to save her inheritance he'll walk free. After the ceremony, she wants nothing to do with him but he's intrigued and sets about wooing her for real. Harmon Jones's western mirrors Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and was an influence on the 1975 comedy western Goin' South, which starred Jack Nicholson.
Director: Harmon Jones
Starring: Guy Madison, Rhonda Fleming, James Griffith, Peter Adams, Don Beddoe, Dan Sheridan
(Subtitles, 1958, 12, 2 Star)

14:30
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (Film)
Raoul Walsh's Napoleonic naval adventure-romance, shot in England and France, stars Gregory Peck and is based on three novels by CS Forester. A few years after the start of the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Horatio Hornblower is dispatched by the Admiralty on a secret mission to supply a Central American rebel, 'el Supremo', with arms and thus undermine Spain's grip on its New World colonies. Along the way, Hornblower and the crew of HMS Lydia engage in a running with a much bigger Spanish warship, the Natividad ; help the Duke of Wellington's sister, Lady Barbara Wellesley, to escape an outbreak of yellow fever in the Caribbean; and, of course, take every opportunity to harry the French and disrupt their campaign in the Iberian peninsula. Also starring Robert Beatty and, in a cameo role, Christopher Lee.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Moultrie Kelsall, Terence Morgan, James Kenney
(Subtitles, 1951, U, 4 Star)

16:50
Batman (Film)
Based on the successful television series this full-length original feature stars Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin striving to protect Gotham City from a rogue's gallery of dastardly villains, including The Catwoman, The Joker, The Penguin and The Riddler.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Starring: Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin
(Subtitles, 1966, U, 3 Star)

18:55
Imagine That (Film)
Eddie Murphy stars in this family comedy from Over the Hedge director Karey Kirkpatrick. Evan Danielson is a divorced workaholic financial advisor, whose young daughter Olivia has come to stay with him for a week. Initially he makes little time for her, worrying instead about his own future at a company that seems about to go under. But when Olivia's imaginary friends begin to offer remarkably prescient financial advice of their own, Danielson finds himself drawn into her world of make-believe.
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden-Church, Yara Shahidi, Ronny Cox, Stephen Rannazzisi, Nicole Ari Parker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, PG, 3 Star)

21:00
The Others (Film)
Alejandro Amenabar's haunting thriller stars Nicole Kidman as Grace Stewart, who lives in a mansion on Jersey in the days just after the Second World War with her two children. Also part of the household are three elderly servants who appeared, as if from nowhere, to replace the previous staff, after they left suddenly. The two children, Nicholas and Anne, are photosensitive and must never be exposed to light, so all curtains and doors are kept firmly shut. Anne starts claiming that there are other people in the house, something Grace denies until inexplicable events begin to convince her that they are not alone. But who are these Others?
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann, James Bentley, Christopher Eccleston
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2001, 12, 5 Star)

23:05
Love Exposure (Film)
Writer-director Sono Sion's slightly baffling, extraordinarily odd, epic drama is the frequently comic tale of a quest for redemption and romance in the bustle of modern Japan. It's the story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an 'up-skirt' photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing - which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian - dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his father's Catholic faith. Yu also has to fend off the affections of Koike, who was, somewhat bizarrely, attracted to him after catching Yu sneaking a snap of her knickers. The film won a raft of awards around the world, including the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival. Tonight's Extreme season screening is introduced by Mark Kermode.
Director: Shion Sono
Starring: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Yutaka Shimizu, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 2008, 18, 4 Star)

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FilmFour & Film Four +1 24.03.12

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11:00
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (Film)
John Carpenter's comedy thriller stars Chevy Chase as Nick Halloway, who is caught up in a freak accident and 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 to come to terms with his plight.
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jim Norton
(Edited for Language, Subtitles, PG, 1992, 3 Star)

13:00
Fantastic Four (Film)
Tim Story's action fantasy stars Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Chiklis, Jessica Alba and Chris Evans as Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Sue Storm and Johnny Storm, four astronauts sent to investigate a cosmic radiation disturbance. Caught by the storm's effects before they can erect safety shields, each of them finds their bodies transformed, with superhuman effect: Richards becomes the super-elastic Mr Fantastic; Grimm, the super strong Thing; Sue, the Invisible Woman; and Johnny, the Human Torch. At first they revel in their powers to prevent death and disaster, but they are soon drawn into battle with Victor von Doom, who sponsored their experiments and space exploration. Exposure to the same radiation storm transformed him into Dr Doom, a metallic creature who can manipulate electricity and wants to use his power to destroy the Fantastic Four and rule the world. Edited for language and violence.
Director: Tim Story
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Hamish Linklater
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 2005, 3 Star)

15:05
Guess Who (Film)
Kevin Rodney Sullivan's romcom is loosely based on Stanley Kramer's classic Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, but with the races reversed. Theresa Jones takes her white fiancé Simon Green home to her parents, suave suburbanites Percy and Marilyn. But she hasn't mentioned Simon's colour and while her parents are welcoming, they're also wary of his intentions, with Percy testing him to see if he's worthy of their daughter's hand.
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Starring: Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana, Judith Scott, Hal Williams, Kellee Stewart
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 12, 2005, 2 Star)

17:10
Eragon (Film)
Stefen Fangmeier's action-packed fantasy film is set in a medieval-like society ruled by the despotic Galbatorix, abetted by his henchman Durza. Galbatorix has exterminated the fabled Dragon Riders who threatened his reign, but a teenage boy, Eragon, discovers a surviving egg from which hatches the dragon Saphira. Unable to control her as she grows, Eragon finds guidance from village layabout Brom, who reveals himself to be the last of the Dragon Riders. The three raise a rebel army to topple Galbatorix but, at the same time, Eragon and Saphira must rescue princess Arya from Galbatorix's evil clutches.
Director: Stefen Fangmeier
Starring: Edward Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle, John Malkovich, Garrett Hedlund
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 2006, 2 Star)

19:10
Bedazzled (Film)
Faustian comedy about the mishaps that occur when the devil grants seven wishes to a lovesick divorcee in return for his soul. The Princess of Darkness approaches an office worker harbouring a crush on a colleague with an offer to help in his failing advances. But as the young man is transformed into a plethora of characters, including a rock star and the US president, not one of his personas is able to get the girl.
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O'Connor, Miriam Shor, Orlando Jones
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 2000, 3 Star)

21:00
Dogma (Film)
Bethany Sloane, working at an abortion clinic is approached by angel Alan Rickman who tells her that, as the last living descendent of Christ, she's the only one who can stop fallen angels Ben Affleck and Matt Damon ending all life on Earth. Accompanied by heavenly assistants Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith, she sets out on a mission to stop them. Kevin Smith's controversial film is a fascinating mix of themes and characters from his earlier films that offers an interesting theological look at his normal New Jersey-set-and-peopled milieu.
Director: Kevin Smith
Starring: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Jason Mewes, Chris Rock, Alan Rickman
(Editor's Choice, 15, 1999, 3 Star)

23:25
Bug (Film)
Film4's Extreme season continues with this horror from director William Friedkin starring Ashley Judd as Agnes, a waitress in a run-down bar who lives in a cheap motel. Into her life comes drifter Peter who, having served in the Gulf war, is obsessed with the idea that he is infected by bugs implanted by the government during medical treatment. She begins to share his paranoia and the pair spiral into a conspiracy theory which sees them become violently delusional, to the point of extreme self-harm, as they battle the bugs they believe are within them. Based on Tracy Letts' play from Chicago's Steppenwolf theatre, this is a visceral, frightening film, but one that maintains an empathy for its characters up to the apocalyptic finale. This screening is introduced by Mark Kermode. Film4's Extreme season continues each night at around 11.00pm, through to Thursday.
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr., Lynn Collins, Brian F. O'Byrne, Neil Bergeron
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 2006, 3 Star)

02:30
Basic (Film)
John McTiernan, whose credits include Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October, directs this thriller starring John Travolta as Tom Hardy, a washed-up DEA agent drying out in Panama. He is asked by an old friend to help army investigator Lt Julia Osborne look into the case of the disappearance and possible murder of members of a patrol out on a training exercise, led by martinet Sgt Nathan West. As the survivors tell their story and the tale unfolds in flashback, Hardy must sort the lies from the truth in order to arrive at the final conclusion of what happened on the fateful night.
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Daly, Giovanni Ribisi, Brian Van Holt
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 2003, 3 Star)

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FilmFour & Film Four +1 25.03.12

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11:00
Please Sir! (Film)
Hilarious movie spin-off from the popular TV sitcom in which teacher Bernard Hedges takes troublesome class 5C to a holiday camp with inevitably comic and disastrous results. Scripted by sitcom experts John Esmonde and Bob Larbey.
Director: Mark Stuart
Starring: John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Noel Howlett, Joan Sanderson, Richard Davies, Erik Chitty
(Subtitles, PG, 1971, 3 Star)

13:00
Stormbreaker (Film)
Geoffrey Sax's family action-adventure is based on Anthony Horowitz's successful teenage spy novels. Alex Pettyfer stars as Alex Rider, a 14-year-old schoolboy seconded to British intelligence after his uncle and guardian Ian Rider is murdered by rogue billionaire Darrius Sayle. Trained by Alan Blunt and Smithers, he takes on Sayle, not just for revenge but also to stop him unleashing the deadly Stormbreaker virus on the world.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Starring: Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy, Alicia Silverstone, Mickey Rourke, Damian Lewis
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 2006, 3 Star)

14:50
Tales From Earthsea (Film)
Goro Miyazaki's dazzling Studio Ghibli animation brings to life Ursula Le Guin's superlative fantasy novels. Young Prince Arren leaves his homeland in a quest to find out why Earthsea's biosphere seems to be failing. In the company of Archmage Sparrowhawk, they discover that the evil wizard Cob is draining the planet's powers for his own purpose, one that needs Arren's life to reach completion. As good and evil meet in a final battle, the fate of Earthsea hangs in the balance. English language version.
Director: Goro Miyazaki
Starring: Junichi Okada, Aoi Teshima, Bunta Sugawara, Yûko Tanaka, Teruyuki Kagawa, Jun Fubuki
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 2006, 3 Star)

17:05
Big Momma's House 2 (Film)
Martin Lawrence hits the dressing-up box again as FBI agent and master of disguise Malcolm Turner, in John Whitesell's comedy sequel. This time he's transformed into his gargantuan grandmother alter-ego Hattie Mae Pierce to go undercover as a childminder in the home of the criminal mastermind behind a new computer virus that poses a threat to the free world. It's robust visual gags and pratfalls all the way, as Lawrence navigates Big Momma past the perils of childcare as well as espionage, and tries to negotiate a series of slapstick situations without getting her bloomers in a twist.
Director: John Whitesell
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Emily Procter, Zachary Levi, Mark Moses, Kat Dennings
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 2006, 2 Star)

19:00
Life or Something Like It (Film)
Stephen Herek's romantic comedy stars Angelina Jolie as Lanie Kerrigan, a New York-based television news reporter who anchors the morning show and is engaged to baseball star Cal Cooper, with whom she shares her flash lifestyle. Leaving aside her sparky working relationship with cameraman Pete, it all looks close to perfect to the outsider. But things take an abrupt about turn when she's sent to interview Prophet Jack, a sidewalk savant feted for his ability to predict football scores. He dutifully predicts the next day's results for her, as well as unseasonal weather, along with the unsettling news that she will die in a week's time. So far, so dismissible - until the scores come in, together with an unexpected hail storm, leaving Lanie with some serious thinking to do about what she wants from life and her relationships.
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub, Christian Kane, James Gammon, Melissa Errico
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 2002, 2 Star)

21:00
Coco Before Chanel (Film)
Audrey Tautou stars in the title role of Anne Fontaine's biopic of the hugely influential French fashion designer Coco Chanel. Fontaine begins her telling of Gabrielle Chanel's life at the moment she and her sister Adrienne are dropped off, aged around 12 and following their mother's death, at a convent-run orphanage; she continues tracing the Chanel story, as suggested by the title, through to the 1920s, just before Coco becomes the fashion phenomenon she is remembered as today. After their time at the orphanage, the sisters find themselves struggling to make their name as entertainers in a local music hall, where Gabrielle (Tautou) picks up her nickname, Coco. It's also at the music hall that Coco and Adrienne (Marie Gillain) meet the men who will enable them to climb society's rungs, though Coco's general attitude to those around her makes her route more circuitous than her sister's.
Director: Anne Fontaine
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Emmanuelle Devos, Régis Royer
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 12, 2009, 3 Star)

23:10
Naked (Film)
Mike Leigh's film stars David Thewlis as Johnny, a misogynist out-of-work Mancunian who visits ex-girlfriend Lesley Sharp in London. Things get complicated when he sleeps with her flat-mate Sophie and then takes to the streets to discuss his bleak philosophy with anyone he meets. Meanwhile, creepy landlord Greg Crutwell has plans for both the girls. This screening is introduced by Mark Kermode.
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 1993, 4 Star)

01:50
I'm Not Scared (Film)
From Oscar-winning director Gabriele Salvatores comes this thriller that looks at a cruel coming-of-age for ten-year-old Michele. Michele and his family live amid the vast cornfields of southern Italy and, with his father Pino often absent on business, Michele explores the countryside. One day, in an abandoned house, he discovers a young boy, Filippo chained up and starving. Befriending and feeding the boy, Michele revels in his secret, little knowing that his father and his salubrious friends from the city are involved in a criminal conspiracy with Filippo at its heart.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Starring: Giuseppe Cristiano, Mattia Di Pierro, Adriana Conserva, Fabio Tetta, Giulia Matturo, Stefano Biase
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Italian with English Subtitles, 15, 2003, 3 Star)

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FilmFour & Film Four +1 26.03.12

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11:00
Boomerang (Film)
Elia Kazan's Oscar-nominated classic noir thriller, based on a true-life case, stars Dana Andrews as Henry Harvey, a New England State Attorney who is determined to prove vagrant John Waldron innocent of the murder of a prominent churchman.
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams, Arthur Kennedy, Sam Levene
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1947, PG, 4 Star)

12:45
Conspiracy of Hearts (Film)
In 1943 in Italy, Mother Katharine and Sister Mitya are part of a group of nuns helping to smuggle orphaned Jewish children out of an internment camp. Their covert activities are initially aided by the camp commandant, a sympathetic Italian major, but, when he is replaced by a Nazi colonel and a lieutenant, the nuns subsequently find themselves in much more danger.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Lewis, Albert Lieven, Peter Arne
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1960, U, 3 Star)

15:00
Battleground (Film)
William A Wellman's Oscar-winning Second World War film stars, among others, Van Johnson, John Hordiak, Ricardo Montalban and James Whitmore as some of a group of American soldiers who held out against an overwhelming German offensive during the Battle of the Bulge. Screenwriter Robert Pirosh had fought at Bastogne himself, and the film brilliantly captures the lurching unpredictability of war, the strained camaraderie of the troops and the horror of combat.
Director: William A. Wellman
Starring: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Jerome Courtland
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1949, PG, 4 Star)

17:20
Rope! (Film)
Alfred Hitchcock shot and edited this ground-breaking thriller in a no-cut continuous narrative to emulate the hit stage play upon which it is based. John Dall and Farley Granger play Brandon Shaw and Philip Morgan, two roommates who, convinced of their Nietzschean superiority, murder an old school friend, David Kentley. They hide the body in a wooden trunk, which they then use as the table for a cocktail party they are throwing, with their old teacher Rupert Cadell, Kentley's father Henry and Kentley's fiancee Janet Walker amongst the guests. As the party proceeds, the murderers' braggadocio starts to arouse Cadell's suspicions.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Douglas Dick
(Subtitles, 1948, PG, 3 Star)

18:55
Fantastic Four (Film)
Tim Story's action fantasy stars Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Chiklis, Jessica Alba and Chris Evans as Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Sue Storm and Johnny Storm, four astronauts sent to investigate a cosmic radiation disturbance. Caught by the storm's effects before they can erect safety shields, each of them finds their bodies transformed, with superhuman effect: Richards becomes the super-elastic Mr Fantastic; Grimm, the super strong Thing; Sue, the Invisible Woman; and Johnny, the Human Torch. At first they revel in their powers to prevent death and disaster, but they are soon drawn into battle with Victor von Doom, who sponsored their experiments and space exploration. Exposure to the same radiation storm transformed him into Dr Doom, a metallic creature who can manipulate electricity and wants to use his power to destroy the Fantastic Four and rule the world. Edited for language and violence.
Director: Tim Story
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Hamish Linklater
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2005, PG, 3 Star)

21:00
Sleeping with the Enemy (Film)
Laura Burney seems to have the perfect life: a stunning house and a loving husband, Martin. Except he is a psycopath who savagely beats her if a bathroom towel is wrongly folded. Fearing for her life, she fakes her death by drowning and flees to a small town in Iowa to begin a new life, which includes being courted by her neighbour Ben Woodward. But Martin slowly realises her ruse and begins to track her down and, if he finds her, she really will be dead...
Director: Joseph Ruben
Starring: Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson, Elizabeth Lawrence, Kyle Secor, Claudette Nevins
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1991, 15, 3 Star)

23:00
Fight Club (Film)
Edward Norton and Brad Pitt star in David Fincher's Oscar-nominated drama, the former as a bored executive, the latter as a stranger he meets on a plane who introduces him to a world of ennui-alleviating physical pain: Fight Club, a semi-secret organisation where men vent their frustrations in bare knuckle fighting in dingy basements. But as Norton becomes more involved, he learns more about the shadowy organisation that plans to take on more than each other...
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier, Richmond Arquette
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, 18, 5 Star)

01:50
Better Luck Tomorrow (Film)
Justin Lin's crime thriller centres on a group of young Asian-Americans who, chasing a quick buck, become disastrously embroiled in criminal activities. Student Ben is bored: his curriculum isn't stretching him and he gets his kicks via minor pranks and scams with his friends Virgil and Han. But then Daric enters the story, offering Ben the enticing prospect of using his brain to make some serious - if highly dodgy - money. However, with excess cash, a lack of direction and too much time on their hands, the friends quickly find themselves wading further and further into criminality; and it's not long before they've seemingly crossed the point of no return... With Karin Anna Cheung and Steve Cho. Film4 premiere.
Director: Justin Lin
Starring: Parry Shen, Jason J. Tobin, Shirley Anderson, Nanette Matoba, Kenji Matoba, Sung Kang
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 15, 3 Star)

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FilmFour & Film Four +1 27.03.12

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11:00
Dakota Incident (Film)
In Lewis R Foster's western, which is enhanced by the spectacular photography of Ernest Haller, Dale Robertson plays bank robber John Banner, who decides to go straight. Pitching up in the small town of Christian Flats, he offers to drive the stagecoach to Laramie, despite the last one returning with the driver and passengers killed by Cheyenne warriors. Aboard the coach is a mix of the good and the bad, including bank teller John Carter, suspected of one of Banner's robberies, showgirl Amy Clarke and pro-Native American Senator Blakely. Ambushed by the Cheyenne, the group must fight for their lives.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Starring: Linda Darnell, Dale Robertson, John Lund, Ward Bond, Regis Toomey, Skip Homeier
(Subtitles, 1956, U, 2 Star)

12:50
Cottage to Let (Film)
Anthony Asquith's fast-paced comedy-thriller stars Leslie Banks as John Barrington, an inventor during the Second World War, who is working on a new bombsight for the RAF at his home in a remote Scottish glen. He is unaware that he is the target of a Fifth Column organisation, operating out of Glasgow, who have already installed an agent in his household masquerading as the cook. Also in the house are Barrington's wife Marguerite, daughter Helen and assistant Alan Trently; plus a Scotland Yard detective, disguised as their butler, who suspects Trently of passing on the secrets.
Director: Anthony Asquith
Starring: Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John Mills, Jeanne de Casalis, Carla Lehmann, George Cole
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1941, U, 3 Star)

14:40
The Colditz Story (Film)
Guy Hamilton's Second World War drama starring John Mills as Pat Reid, Eric Portman as Colonel Richmond, Lionel Jeffries as Harry Tyler and Christopher Rhodes as 'Mac' McGill: just some of the British prisoners of war gathered together in the supposedly escape-proof German prison camp Colditz. Naturally, they immediately begin planning to escape.
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Ian Carmichael
(Black and White, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1955, 15, 4 Star)

16:35
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (Film)
Raoul Walsh's Napoleonic naval adventure-romance, shot in England and France, stars Gregory Peck and is based on three novels by CS Forester. A few years after the start of the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Horatio Hornblower is dispatched by the Admiralty on a secret mission to supply a Central American rebel, 'el Supremo', with arms and thus undermine Spain's grip on its New World colonies. Along the way, Hornblower and the crew of HMS Lydia engage in a running with a much bigger Spanish warship, the Natividad ; help the Duke of Wellington's sister, Lady Barbara Wellesley, to escape an outbreak of yellow fever in the Caribbean; and, of course, take every opportunity to harry the French and disrupt their campaign in the Iberian peninsula. Also starring Robert Beatty and, in a cameo role, Christopher Lee.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Moultrie Kelsall, Terence Morgan, James Kenney
(Subtitles, 1951, U, 4 Star)

18:55
Imagine That (Film)
Eddie Murphy stars in this family comedy from Over the Hedge director Karey Kirkpatrick. Evan Danielson is a divorced workaholic financial advisor, whose young daughter Olivia has come to stay with him for a week. Initially he makes little time for her, worrying instead about his own future at a company that seems about to go under. But when Olivia's imaginary friends begin to offer remarkably prescient financial advice of their own, Danielson finds himself drawn into her world of make-believe.
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden-Church, Yara Shahidi, Ronny Cox, Stephen Rannazzisi, Nicole Ari Parker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, PG, 3 Star)

21:00
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (Film)
A romantic comedy from director Mark Waters, who also made Freaky Friday and Mean Girls. Matthew McConaughey plays Connor Mead, a womanising bachelor who is returning to the family fold for his brother Paul's wedding. The commitment-phobic singleton has a particularly jaundiced view of love, and thinks nothing of causing chaos on his sibling's big day. But, before too much damage can be done, Connor is visited by the ghost of his late uncle, Wayne, who tells him to expect visitations from spirits intent on putting his love life back on track. And, sure enough, Allison Vandermeersh - his high school lover - materialises and points out how close he and Jenny Perroti - who is also attending the wedding - were back then. But will this spectral jolt be enough to put him right? Will Jenny be even the slightest bit interested after all these years? And what will the Ghosts of Girlfriends Present and Future have to say to the philanderer?
Director: Mark Waters
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas, Emma Stone, Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 12, 3 Star)

23:00
Import/Export (Film)
Ulrich Seidl's film looks at the exploitation of both human beings and goods across Europe's borders. Ukrainian Olga is a single mother who works as a nurse but whose salary doesn't cover her outgoings. After a brief foray into web-cam porn, she moves to Vienna in search of a better life, only to find she is as exploited there as she was at home. Austrian Pauli is a loser who ends up helping his degenerate stepfather Michael shift a dodgy load of slot machines to Eastern Europe. Although Michael and Olga's paths never cross, their contrasting experiences are a stark reminder of the effects of the global economy on ordinary people. In German, Slovak and Russian with English subtitles. This screening is introduced by the director.
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Starring: Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas, Maria Hofstätter, Georg Friedrich, Natalya Baranova
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 18, 4 Star)

01:50
Day of Wrath (Film)
Carl Theodor Dreyer's masterpiece is set in 17th-century Denmark, where a pastor's second wife confesses her love for his son. The shock kills her husband and, accused of witchcraft, she is sent for trial. Certain that reason will prevail, she slowly begins to think that her accusers want her dead and that her fate is inescapable. Released under the Nazi occupation, its themes so offended the Germans that Dreyer was forced to flee to Sweden until the war ended. Day of Wrath forms the first part of a Carl Dreyer triple-bill, screening over three consecutive nights, with Ordet being shown tomorrow night, and Gertrud on Thursday.
Director: Carl-Theodor Dreyer
Starring: Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam, Preben Lerdorff-Rye, Anna Svierkier, Albert Høeberg
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Danish with English Subtitles, Black and White, 1943, PG, 4 Star)

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11:00
Bullwhip (Film)
When cowboy Steve Daley faces hanging for a murder he didn't commit, he has one way out: if he marries firebrand Cheyenne to save her inheritance he'll walk free. After the ceremony, she wants nothing to do with him but he's intrigued and sets about wooing her for real. Harmon Jones's western mirrors Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and was an influence on the 1975 comedy western Goin' South, which starred Jack Nicholson.
Director: Harmon Jones
Starring: Guy Madison, Rhonda Fleming, James Griffith, Peter Adams, Don Beddoe, Dan Sheridan
(Subtitles, 1958, 12, 2 Star)

12:35
The Gentle Sex (Film)
This Second World War documentary-style morale booster, directed by Leslie Howard, emphasised the role of women on the home front by following the fortunes of seven very different females, who all join the ATS on the same day. The story follows them through basic training to their eventual postings, when they are reunited at an anti-aircraft station.
Director: Leslie Howard, Maurice Elvey
Starring: Joan Gates, Jean Gillie, Joan Greenwood, Joyce Howard, Rosamund John, Lilli Palmer
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1941, U, 3 Star)

14:25
Objective, Burma! (Film)
World War II epic with Errol Flynn as the leader of a team of paratroopers who invade Burma to wipe out an important Japanese post. An unforgettable depiction of the horrors of jungle warfare.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Errol Flynn, Troy Brown Jr., William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull, Warner Anderson
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1945, PG, 4 Star)

17:10
Carry on Constable (Film)
A flu epidemic decimates the ranks of a local police force. With no other options, the powers-that-be bring in raw green recruits - including Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Connor and Kenneth Williams - to tackle crime. Sid James takes the role of Frank Williams, the doughty sergeant attempting to whip the incompetents into shape.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Sid James, Eric Barker, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Leslie Phillips
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1960, PG, 3 Star)

18:55
Guess Who (Film)
Kevin Rodney Sullivan's romcom is loosely based on Stanley Kramer's classic Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, but with the races reversed. Theresa Jones takes her white fiancé Simon Green home to her parents, suave suburbanites Percy and Marilyn. But she hasn't mentioned Simon's colour and while her parents are welcoming, they're also wary of his intentions, with Percy testing him to see if he's worthy of their daughter's hand.
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Starring: Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana, Judith Scott, Hal Williams, Kellee Stewart
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2005, 12, 2 Star)

21:00
High Crimes (Film)
Legal thriller from One False Move director Carl Franklin. Ashley Judd stars as Claire Kubik, a successful lawyer who resigns her post in order to defend her husband Tom. He's been accused of committing war crimes during his time as a covert special ops Marine in El Salvador in the late 80s. She was blissfully unaware of his past, but remains convinced of his innocence. However, Claire needs some assistance with some of the more obscure aspects of military law and procedure, and so calls upon the services of Charlie Grimes, a washed up, alcoholic former military attorney. Can they establish that Tom wasn't involved in the massacre of civilians? Indeed, is he actually innocent?
Director: Carl Franklin
Starring: Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, James Caviezel, Adam Scott, Amanda Peet, Bruce Davison
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2002, PG, 3 Star)

23:15
Dogtooth (Film)
Giorgos Lanthimos's surreal black comedy-drama is set on a large, isolated country estate, where Father and Mother impose a strict regime of bizarre home schooling on their son and two daughters. The children are denied all contact with the outside world, where they are told man-eating cats roam. But, as they grow, the teenagers' physical needs require fulfilling. And, as their parents explore ways of providing a sexual outlet for their children, they bring Christina, one of Father's employees, into their enclosed, stultifying world, with dramatic consequences... This screening is introduced by Mark Kermode.
Director: Giorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis, Anna Kalaitzidou
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 18, 4 Star)

01:10
Ordet (Film)
Danish director Carl Theodor Deyer's classic exploration of religious faith, adapted from Kaj Munk's 1932 play I Begyndelsen var Ordet, and shot in Veders?, the village in which the playwright had worked as a priest. Tensions are rife in a farming community in the west of Denmark. The population are devout, but draw their faith from a variety of mutually exclusive dogmas.
Director: Carl-Theodor Dreyer
Starring: Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff-Rye, Cay Kristiansen, Birgitte Federspiel, Ejner Federspiel
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Danish with English Subtitles, Black and White, 1955, 12, 5 Star)

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11:00
The Sea Inside (Film)
Javier Bardem plays quadriplegic Ramon Sampedro, who spent 29 years fighting for his right to die. Remarkable Spanish drama that won the 2005 Best Foreign Film Oscar.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas, Mabel Rivera, Celso Bugallo, Clara Segura
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2004, PG, 4 Star)

13:25
The Cross of Lorraine (Film)
Tay Garnett's war drama was intended to remind the Americans of the sacrifices the French had made in their struggle against the Nazis. Set in a French PoW camp, it stars Gene Kelly in one of his earliest film roles as the firebrand Victor; Jean-Pierre Aumont as Pierre, a lawyer who devises an escape plan; Cecil Hardwicke as Father Sebastian; and Hume Cronyn as the collaborationist Duval. Peter Lorre plays the sadistic Sergeant Berger, ironic given he fled Germany when the Nazis came to power.
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf, Joseph Calleia, Peter Lorre
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1943, PG, 3 Star)

15:10
Please Sir! (Film)
Hilarious movie spin-off from the popular TV sitcom in which teacher Bernard Hedges takes troublesome class 5C to a holiday camp with inevitably comic and disastrous results. Scripted by sitcom experts John Esmonde and Bob Larbey.
Director: Mark Stuart
Starring: John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Noel Howlett, Joan Sanderson, Richard Davies, Erik Chitty
(Subtitles, 1971, PG, 3 Star)

17:15
A Challenge for Robin Hood (Film)
Director CM Pennington-Richard's reworking of the Robin Hood legend provides lively family entertainment, with Barrie Ingham in the title role.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards
Starring: Barrie Ingham, Peter Blythe, John Arnatt, Gay Hamilton, John Gugolka, James Hayter
(Subtitles, 1967, U, 2 Star)

19:10
Bedazzled (Film)
Faustian comedy about the mishaps that occur when the devil grants seven wishes to a lovesick divorcee in return for his soul. The Princess of Darkness approaches an office worker harbouring a crush on a colleague with an offer to help in his failing advances. But as the young man is transformed into a plethora of characters, including a rock star and the US president, not one of his personas is able to get the girl.
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O'Connor, Miriam Shor, Orlando Jones
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2000, 12, 3 Star)

21:00
Mission: Impossible III (Film)
In JJ Abrams's fast-paced thriller, Tom Cruise reprises his role as IMF agent Ethan Hunt, master of disguise and the double bluff. Hunt is up against Owen Davian, who is planning to sell a new deadly weapons system, code-named the 'Rabbit's Foot', to the highest bidder. Cue a stunning helicopter chase through a wind farm, a parachute drop that leaves Hunt dangling in front of a speeding truck, and an unholy finale in the Vatican City.
Director: J.J. Abrams
Starring: Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Michelle Monaghan, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 12, 3 Star)

23:20
Antichrist (Film)
Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg star in Lars von Trier's horror-drama about a marriage that violently implodes after a tragic accident; and, featuring scenes of explicit sex, disturbing violence and graphic genital mutilation, it's not for the squeamish. Dafoe and Gainsbourg, the unnamed protagonists, are making love in their lofty apartment when their young child manages to crawl out of an open window and plunge fatally to the pavement below. Naturally, their lives fall apart. However, the father is a psychiatrist, and he persuades his wife to forgo anti-depressants and travel with him to an isolated house in the woods, where he can put his own therapeutic theory into effect. But instead of healing their hurt, their isolation, and her research into witchcraft and pagan religions, results in them succumbing to otherworldly influences and a grisly descent into brutal savagery. This screening, the conclusion of Film4's Extreme season, is introduced by Mark Kermode. Film4 premiere.
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 18, 3 Star)

01:35
Gertrud (Film)
Carl Theodor Dreyer's last completed film stars Nina Pens Rode as the wife of a politician trapped in a loveless marriage. Leaving him to join her young pianist lover, he too abandons her, and so she chooses to live the rest of her life in solitude, rather than risk emotional engagement again.
Director: Carl-Theodor Dreyer
Starring: Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Ebbe Rode, Baard Owe, Axel Strøbye, Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Danish with English Subtitles, 1965, PG, 3 Star)

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11:00
Rope! (Film)
Alfred Hitchcock shot and edited this ground-breaking thriller in a no-cut continuous narrative to emulate the hit stage play upon which it is based. John Dall and Farley Granger play Brandon Shaw and Philip Morgan, two roommates who, convinced of their Nietzschean superiority, murder an old school friend, David Kentley. They hide the body in a wooden trunk, which they then use as the table for a cocktail party they are throwing, with their old teacher Rupert Cadell, Kentley's father Henry and Kentley's fiancee Janet Walker amongst the guests. As the party proceeds, the murderers' braggadocio starts to arouse Cadell's suspicions.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Douglas Dick
(Subtitles, PG, 1948, 3 Star)

12:40
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison (Film)
After her acclaimed performance in Black Narcissus, Deborah Kerr donned the wimple again, this time for director John Huston, as a nun stranded on a Japanese-held Pacific island with laconic Marine corporal Robert Mitchum, her only companion and hope of salvation.
Director: John Huston
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
(Subtitles, PG, 1957, 4 Star)

14:45
Tobruk (Film)
British commandos, German Jews and an American demolition expert must contend with the desert, German patrols and a traitor while on a mission to blow up Rommel's fuel supplies in preparation for an amphibious landing on the North African coast.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green, Guy Stockwell, Jack Watson, Norman Rossington
(Subtitles, PG, 1966, 2 Star)

17:00
Ladies in Lavender (Film)
Drama about two spinster sisters who befriend a shipwrecked Polish man in 1930s Cornwall with a musical gift. After nursing him back to help, the women become attached to him. Other people in the town however, are suspicious of him, particularly when he takes a fancy to a German woman.
Director: Charles Dance
Starring: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl, Freddie Jones, Gregor Henderson-Begg, Miriam Margolyes
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 2004, 4 Star)

19:05
Big Momma's House 2 (Film)
Martin Lawrence hits the dressing-up box again as FBI agent and master of disguise Malcolm Turner, in John Whitesell's comedy sequel. This time he's transformed into his gargantuan grandmother alter-ego Hattie Mae Pierce to go undercover as a childminder in the home of the criminal mastermind behind a new computer virus that poses a threat to the free world. It's robust visual gags and pratfalls all the way, as Lawrence navigates Big Momma past the perils of childcare as well as espionage, and tries to negotiate a series of slapstick situations without getting her bloomers in a twist.
Director: John Whitesell
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Emily Procter, Zachary Levi, Mark Moses, Kat Dennings
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 2006, 2 Star)

21:00
He's Just Not That Into You (Film)
Kevin Kwapis's romantic comedy is based on a self-help book that shares the film's title, which itself was inspired by an episode of Sex and the City. The plot concerns the relationships of a multiplicity of Baltimore residents, but centres around Gigi's long-thwarted search for love. And when she asks her local barman Alex why men never seem to call her back after a date, his answer turns her understanding of romance upside down. Meanwhile, Janine seems to be more interested in working on her house than her marriage to Ben, who in turn strays with yoga teacher Anna; while Beth is having trouble persuading her long-term boyfriend Neil to marry her. The all-star cast also includes Drew Barrymore, Kevin Connolly and Kris Kristofferson.
Director: Ken Kwapis
Starring: Justin Long, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly, Drew Barrymore, Kris Kristofferson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 12, 2009, 3 Star)

23:30
Black Snake Moan (Film)
Craig Brewer's two-handed drama begins after Rae's soldier husband is called up for duty in Iraq. She goes off the rails, sleeping around, until one encounter leaves her semi-naked in the road, where she's found by Lazarus, who's nursing his own hurt of a cheating wife. Determined to save Rae from herself, he initially imprisons her in his home, but, as the two form a relationship, so she begins to understand the reasons behind her actions. Includes sex, drugs and very strong language.
Director: Craig Brewer
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson, John Cothran Jr., David Banner
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 2006, 4 Star)

01:45
Election (Film)
Johnny To's all-action thriller is set in the world of Hong Kong's Triad gangs. The death of the leader of the territory's largest gang, some 50,000 members strong, prompts an election tussle between two candidates: the cool Lok and hot-headed Big D. When Lok beats the corrupt tactics of Big D, Big D threatens to upset the investiture. But then the sacred baton that bestows power goes missing. The first to retrieve it will become leader and, as the police become involved and even Triad lawyers try to resolve the matter, the race is on to track the ceremonial object down.
Director: Johnny To
Starring: Simon Yam, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Ka-Tung Lam, Siu-Fai Cheung
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Cantonese and Mandarin with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 18, 2005, 3 Star)

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11:00
Doctor in Clover (Film)
Gaston Grimsdyke goes on a medical school course run by Sir Lancelot Spratt. Ralph Thomas's film, the penultimate in the Doctor... series, is filled with the usual double entendres, with the plot hinging around a miracle rejuvenation serum.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Anne Field, John Fraser, Joan Sims
(Subtitles, PG, 1966, 3 Star)

13:00
Dragonball Evolution (Film)
James Wong's live-action take on the long-running, popular Japanese manga series stars Justin Chatwin as the leader of a mystical band of warriors out to save the world. Ancient demon Lord Piccolo, freshly escaped from 2000 bitter years of confinement, has embarked on a vengeful mission to destroy Earth. After his grandfather is attacked by Piccolo, 18-year-old martial artist Goku, aided by Bulma Briefs and guided by the mystical Master Roshi, sets out on an odyssey to prevent the demon from fulfilling his dastardly plan... Edited for violence and language.
Director: James Wong
Starring: Justin Chatwin, Yun-Fat Chow, Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, James Marsters, Joon Park
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 2009, 2 Star)

14:40
Akeelah and the Bee (Film)
Doug Atchison's charming drama stars Keke Palmer as Akeelah Anderson, a young girl attending a tough ghetto school in Los Angeles. When she sees the finals of the National Spelling Bee, she decides to enter the competition on the strength of her special skill at spelling. Despite her classmates derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya, thanks to the efforts of her teacher Dr Joshua Larabee, she reaches the final. But when she meets her fellow competitors, she learns a lesson that will stand her in better stead in the future as she realises that coming first isn't everything in life.
Director: Doug Atchison
Starring: Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong, J.R. Villarreal, Sean Michael Afable
(Edited for Language, 12, 2006, 4 Star)

16:50
Just My Luck (Film)
Donald Petrie's romcom stars Lindsay Lohan as Ashley Albright who is probably the luckiest girl in the States - the sun always shines on her, there's always a cab at her call and every scratch card she buys is a winner. Jake Hardin is her polar opposite; if there's dog excrement to tread in, he'll find it. But a chance kiss sees their luck reversed and, as Albright struggles with life's travails, Hardin revels in his new good fortune - until the miss-matched pair realise that being together is a matter of sharing the good times as well as the bad.
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Faizon Love, Samaire Armstrong, Bree Turner, Missi Pyle
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 2006, 2 Star)

18:45
The Princess Diaries (Film)
Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews star in Garry Marshall's family comedy about an ordinary girl who suddenly finds out that she is, in fact, a princess. Mia Thermopolis is a pleasant, if slightly awkward and geeky, 15-year-old high school student living in San Francisco. She's not the most popular pupil at school, and is regularly picked on by the cheerleader clique. However, all that could be about to change: after her estranged father dies, it's discovered that she's directly in line to the throne of a tiny European country. But first she must show she has the bearing and beauty necessary for the role - and her grandmother Queen Clarisse Renaldi's first impressions are far from positive. Can Mia prove her regal relative wrong?
Director: Garry Marshall
Starring: Julie Andrews, Anne Hathaway, Hector Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo, Mandy Moore, Caroline Goodall
(Widescreen, Subtitles, U, 2001, 3 Star)

21:00
Jumper (Film)
Doug Liman's sci-fi thriller stars Hayden Christensen as David Rice, a 'jumper', who can teleport anywhere instantly. He uses his powers to accumulate wealth for his idea of an ideal lifestyle, but finds himself threatened by the Paladins, a shadowy organisation led by Roland, who are dedicated to tracking down and killing jumpers. Rice teams up with fellow jumper Griffin to take on the Paladins and to save his sweetheart Millie, who has become an innocent pawn in the battle.
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Diane Lane, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Rooker
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 12, 2008, 3 Star)

22:45
Beneath (Film)
Director Dagen Merrill's horror film stars Nora Zehetner as Christy, the driver in the car crash that terribly disfigured and subsequently killed her older sister, Vanessa. Despite moving away, Christy can't get rid of the nightmares that have plagued her ever since the accident. Returning to her small hometown six years later for another funeral, she realises her horrifying visions are in fact apocalyptic harbingers of future disasters. Now she must do everything she can to prevent them from coming true. Also starring Brenna O'Brien. Film4 premiere.
Director: Dagen Merrill
Starring: Nora Zehetner, Brenna O'Brien, Carly Pope, Don S. Davis, Beatrice Zeilanger, Matthew Settle
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 2007, 3 Star)

00:20
Deep End (Film)
Set during the swinging sixties, this neglected British gem from writer/director Jerzy Skolimowski centres on a public swimming-pool where new assistant Mike is shown the ropes, and more besides, by his confident, sexually-experienced colleague Susan. Although Susan is engaged, Mike does his best to sabotage the relationship, to the extent of stalking both her and her fiancé. Mike becomes increasingly desperate to have Susan for himself - with tragic results - as the extraordinary climax is acted out in the empty swimming pool. Look out for Diana Dors in a cameo role exuding vaudevillian sauciness as a sexually voracious customer trying to seduce Mike.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Starring: Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler, Christopher Sandford, Diana Dors, Louise Martini
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 1970, 4 Star)

02:05
Birthday Girl (Film)
Ben Chaplin plays John Buckingham, a bank manager in the very English town of St Albans. Despairing at his inability to find love, he orders mail-order Russian bride Nadia, and is initially delighted with his 'purchase'. But things take a darker turn when her two large, menacing cousins arrive and move in to their tiny house. He quickly realises that not everything bought over the internet comes with a guarantee.
Director: Jez Butterworth
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Kassovitz, Kate Lynn Evans, Stephen Mangan
(Subtitles, 15, 2001, 3 Star)