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Monday 15th October
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11:00
The Shepherd of the Hills (Film)
The first talkie version of the much-filmed Harold Bell Wright novel is directed by Henry Hathaway and stars John Wayne in his first Technicolor movie. In the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, Young Matt Matthews blames his long-absent father for his mother's death and has sworn to kill him should their paths ever cross. The rest of the mountain community seem to have been affected by Young Matt's dark emotions, and rivalries and animosities are rife. Into this tense environment steps a mysterious stranger whose acts of kindness begin to heal the troubled populace. But who is he and why does he want to live among them?
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey Jr., Beulah Bondi, James Barton, Samuel S. Hi$$$
(Subtitles, 1941, PG, 3 Star)


12:55
Siege of the Saxons (Film)
Rousing historical romp in which King Arthur is betrayed and murdered by his champion knight, who assumes the throne in league with the invading Saxons. The only witness is an outlaw, who rescues the King's daughter and goes in search of Merlin, the mystical kingmaker who will be his ally in the battle ahead.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Ronald Lewis, Janette Scott, Ronald Howard, Mark Dignam, John Laurie, Jerome Willis
(Subtitles, 1963, 12, 2 Star)


14:40
Winchester '73 (Film)
Classic western adventure about a man's hunt for a killer, and the quest for a stolen rifle. A man on the trail of his father's murderer wins a prized Winchester 73 rifle in a shooting contest. But when the weapon is stolen, his mission becomes more complex. One of director Anthony Mann's series of westerns that helped revitalise the genre during the 1950s.
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Millard Mitchell, Charles Drake
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 5 Star)


16:30
Hellfighters (Film)
Andrew V McLaglen's firefighting action adventure stars John Wayne and is based on the work of famed real-life extinguisher of oil well fires, Red Adair. Chance Buckman and his young partner Greg Parker have established themselves as the people to call whenever a major fire is burning out of control, and their perilous calling takes them around the globe to quell one dangerous conflagration after another. Complicating their lives are Buckman's relationship with his former wife Madelyn and Parker's spouse Tish, who is also Buckman's daughter.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Starring: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Jay C. Flippen, Bruce Cabot, Edward Faulkner
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1969, PG, 2 Star)


18:50
27 Dresses (Film)
Anne Fletcher's rom-com stars Katherine Heigl as Jane, an amateur wedding planner for her frie$$$, who hopes to be the blushing bride herself to her advertising executive boss George. Her ambition is dashed when her fun-loving gorgeous sister Tess sweeps him off his feet, leaving Jane to plan yet another wedding. But maybe there's hope for her in the shape of Kevin, a journalist who is intrigued by Jane's perpetual bridesmaid role and wants to write a story about her, if only they didn't mix like oil and water.
Director: Anne Fletcher
Starring: Katherine Heigl, Charli Barcena, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Peyton List, Judy Greer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 15, 3 Star)




21:00
Terminator Salvation (Film)
Director McG takes the helm for the fourth instalment of the sci-fi action franchise, starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington. The principal action takes place in the not-too-distant 2018, in the devastated world that was glimpsed early in the series, where a determined group of resistance fighters are battling killing machines that are set on sole control of the planet. John Connor is one of the resistance leaders who discovers that their Skynet robot adversaries have a potentially fatal design flaw. They also learn that Skynet plans to imminently assassinate the top resistance leaders; Connor is second on the kill list to Kyle Reese, a civilian whose significance is known only to Connor. Meanwhile, Marcus Wright has also appeared on the scene - is he a mysterious warrior, out to defeat the machines, or does he have darker motives?
Director: Joseph McGinty Nichol
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood, Helena Bonham Carter, Anton Yelchin, Jadagrace
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 12, 3 Star)


23:10
Final Destination 3 (Film)
James Wong, who directed the first film in the horror franchise, returns to helm this sequel starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Wendy Christensen has a premonition that the roller coaster she and her school frie$$$ are on is going to crash. And, sure enough, soon after they disembark, there is a spectacular, gory accident on the attraction. But, once again, Death will not be cheated of his due and, as the survivors succumb one-by-one in suitably ingenious ways, Wendy and her friend Kevin Fischer desperately try to work out who is next, and how they can escape.
Director: James Wong
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson, Sam Easton, Jesse Moss
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 15, 2 Star)


00:55
Volver (Film)
Pedro Almodovar's drama stars Penelope Cruz as single parent Raimunda, whose life is turned upside down by a murder, which leaves her with a body to dispose of and a crime to cover up. Although she manages to find somewhere to put the body, further complications arise when her mother Irene, presumed dead, suddenly reappears. And when Raimunda takes on the management of a holidaying friend's restaurant - which becomes unexpectedly, and riotously, successful - our heroine's makeshift plans start to look very precarious indeed.
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2006, 15, 4 Star)

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Tuesday 16th October
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11:00
Action in the North Atlantic (Film)
A rousing tribute to the men of the wartime Merchant Marine, focusing on the Liberty ship Sea Witch as it makes its perilous journey in a convoy to Murmansk, under attack from German submarines and aircraft. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey as Lt Joe Rossi and Capt Steve Jarvis, the two officers charged with getting the ship to safety.
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale Jr., Julie Bishop, Ruth Gordon, Sam Levene
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1943, PG, 4 Star)


13:35
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Film)
118 min U
'When the legend becomes fact, print the legend' is the famous quote from what is considered to be one of John Ford's finest westerns, and it pretty much sums up the film. Greenhorn lawyer Ransom Stoddard sets up in a frontier town where everyone, bar the tough-but-decent Tom Doniphon, fears the brutal bully Liberty Valance. As Stoddard's influence grows and Valance's wanes, a confrontation between the two seems inevitable. And it duly comes, with a result that shocks the town.
Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1962, PG, 3 Star)


16:10
All About Eve (Film)
Bette Davis stars in Joseph Mankiewicz's classic drama as Margo Channing, acid-tongued star of the stage who takes the young, innocent, mousey Eve Harrington under her wing. But Margo's repays her kindness by quietly betraying her at every turn, until she has climbed the dizzy heights once occupied by the star. George Sanders stars as the acerbic critic Addison De Witt, with Hugh Marlowe as Margo's writer Lloyd Richards and Gary Merrill as her lover Bill Sampson. The film won six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. Davis and Baxter were both nominated as Best Actress but the split vote meant neither won.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 4 Star)


18:55
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Film)
When three consuls on Nimbus III are kidnapped by a Vulcan who has rediscovered his emotions, a Klingon warship sets out to deal with the crisis, and so Kirk, Spock and McCoy are recalled from vacation to help. They are forced to risk their lives by taking the Enterprise into uncharted territory in search of nothing less than the Supreme Being and the meaning of life.
Director: William Shatner
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1989, PG, 3 Star)


21:00
Kiss the Girls (Film)
Disturbing thriller about the hunt for a killer - known only as Casanova - who has kidnapped a number of women and murdered two of them. When a detective's niece goes missing, he is drawn into a complex and highly personal investigation. The local police are unappreciative of his efforts, but his niece manages to escape with valuable information about the killer.
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes, Alex McArthur, Tony Goldwyn, Jay O. Sanders
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1997, 18, 3 Star)




23:15
Lucky Number Slevin (Film)
Paul McGuigan's tricksy thriller stars Josh Hartnett as Slevin Kelevra, who arrives at his friend's New York apartment, only to find it empty. He makes himself at home, but his peace is interrupted by employees of crime lord The Boss, who mistake him for his absent friend, who owes The Boss $96,000. The Boss makes Slevin an offer: kill the son of his rival, The Rabbi, and the debt will be wiped clean. But The Rabbi soon gets hold of Slevin and makes a counter-offer. Meanwhile, cynical assassin Mr Goodkat is playing both e$$$ against the middle in what might be a long-term plan, while Slevin's neighbour Li$$$ey soon becomes his love interest. The result is a multi-stranded double-cross that can only have one lucky winner.
Director: Paul McGuigan
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Michael Rubenfeld
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 18, 4 Star)


01:25
Black God White Devil (Film)
In this delirious drama, shot in lush black and white, Brazilian director Glauber Rocha combines a variety of influences, including Sergei Eisenstein's montage work, neorealism and the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, to tell the tale of a farm labourer's fall from grace and his struggle to find redemption. During yet another drought-blighted year the arid hinterland of the north-east Brazil, ranch hand Manoel kills his boss after a dispute over money. Manoel and his wife Rosa flee, but instead of finding freedom and happiness, the pair fall prey in succession to the whims of a black preacher who styles himself San Sebastian, and operates far outside the orbit of the Catholic Church, then the revolutionary Corisco and, later, the bounty hunter Antonio das Mortes.
Starring: Geraldo del Rey, Othon Bastos, Lidio Silva
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Portuguese with English Subtitles, Black and White, 1964, 12)

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Wednesday 17th October
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11:00
The Tall Stranger (Film)
Joel McCrea plays Ned Bannon, an American Civil War Union officer wounded in battle and left for dead. Rescued by a wagon train, he's nursed back to health and offers to guide the wagons west, but the Confederates among the passengers ostracise him. He fi$$$ solace with Ellen and acceptance when he thwarts an ambush engineered by land baron Hardy, his half brother. Directed by Thomas Carr, a veteran of western films and TV series.
Director: Thomas Carr
Starring: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Barry Kelley, Michael Ansara, Whit Bissell, James Dobson
(Subtitles, 1957, 15, 3 Star)


12:40
That Touch of Mink (Film)
Cary Grant and Doris Day star in Delbert Mann's delightful, frothy comedy-romance. She plays Cathy Timberlake, who falls for businessman Roger Adams when his car coats her in mud. Instantly attracted, she wants a ring while he just wants a fling - she figures the way to get him is to be the playgirl he desires while his plan is to be a straight-ace guy. Inevitably, misunderstandings galore abound but the spark between the two leads is unmistakable. The supporting cast includes Gig Young, John Astin and Audrey Meadows plus cameos from then-baseball superstars Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra.
Director: Delbert Mann
Starring: Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows, Alan Hewitt, John Astin
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1962, U, 3 Star)


14:35
The History of Mr Polly (Film)
In Anthony Pelissier's adaptation of the HG Wells novel, John Mills plays the eponymous Mr Polly who, disillusioned by the constant nagging of his wife and his dull life, torches his shop and takes to the open road. He e$$$ up in the heart of the countryside where, after a few hitches, he begins a new life with a jovial innkeeper. But can this idyllic existence last for ever, and what of the family he left behind?
Director: Anthony Pelissier
Starring: John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins, Finlay Currie, Gladys Henson, Diana Churchill
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1949, U, 3 Star)


16:35
Shenandoah (Film)
James Stewart stars as Charlie Anderson in this beautiful drama about a widower and wealthy Virginia farming patriarch trying to keep his family together and safe in the midst of the encroaching Civil War. The family struggles to ignore the war tearing apart their Shenandoah Valley community and ultimately also becomes part of the fight. How Charlie survives overwhelming tragedy, from the capture of his young son by the Confederate Army to his daughter's love for a Confederate soldier and the untimely deaths of his other son and daughter-in-law, with Stewart's famous soliloquy by his wife's grave, is the moving story that made this drama so successful. In fact, Stewart's speech was so popular it was released as a record.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Starring: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Rosemary Forsyth, Phillip Alford
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1965, PG, 4 Star)


18:40
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (Film)
This family adventure from Chris Columbus is adapted from the first of Rick Riordan's series of fantasy novels, and stars Logan Lerman as Percy Jackson, an American teen who fi$$$ that Greek myth is much closer to home than he imagined. It turns out that while his mum Sally is human, his father is the Greek god of the sea and earthquakes, Poseidon; which makes our hero a demigod. At first it's all a bit much to take in, as he learns the modern world is teeming with deities and their offspring. And things take a turn for the worse when Zeus suspects Percy of theft after the lightning bolt that confers supreme, terrifying power goes missing. With his mother kidnapped and the errant super weapon threatening to cause a catastrophic clash of the titans among the gods, Percy sets off to recover the artefact. As he does so, he discovers the many creatures and monsters of legend are also alive today, and are as fierce as ever. Also starring Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman and Steve Coogan.
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Jake Abel, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, PG, 3 Star)




21:00
The King of Comedy (Film)
Rupert Pupkin is an aspiring comedian so desperate to get a spot on Jerry Langford's TV show that he conspires to kidnap his arrogant hero. Jerry Lewis plays against type as the egotistical TV star in Scorsese's unusual black comedy.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert de Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard, Shelley Hack, Ed Herlihy
(1983, PG, 4 Star)


23:10
Four Brothers (Film)
Four adopted brothers reunite when their mother is killed in a botched robbery. In the course of finding those responsible they soon realise the crime is not as straight forward as it at first seems and the revenge they seek will not be easy to obtain.
Director: John Singleton
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin, Garrett Hedlund, Terrence Howard, Josh Charles
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 15, 3 Star)

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Thursday 18th October
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11:00
Alamar (Film)
Mexican director Pedro Gonzelez-Rubio's beautifully shot semi-documentary explores the bo$$$ between a father and his young son at the point of their separation. Five-year-old Natan Machado Palombini is the product of a love affair between an Italian woman, Roberta Palombini, and a Yucatan tour guide, Jorge Machado. But their relationship has foundered and Roberta is returning to her native Rome, possibly for good. Before he is also whisked off to the Italian capital, Natan is given a chance to spend a little more time with his father in Jorge's Mexican fishing community. Living in a shack on stilts above the sea, the youngster deepens his ties with his father through everyday tasks such as painting the house and preparing food, as well as learning to fish and exploring the region's rich variety of wildlife.
Director: Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio
Starring: Natan Machado Palombini, Jorge Machado, Nestor Marin, Roberta Palombini
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, U, 4 Star)


12:30
The Fighting Seabees (Film)
Edward Ludwig's film is a morale-boosting tribute to the US Navy's Construction Battalions who followed behind the troops invading Pacific isla$$$ occupied by the Japanese to build runways, roads and bridges. John Wayne plays Wedge Donovan, civilian head of a construction company approached by the Navy to train their men as specialists. Instead, the impetuous Donovan wants to prove his already-trained crew are up to the job, but they're unarmed, and come under attack from Japanese troops... Also starring Dennis O'Keefe as Donovan's commanding officer, and Susan Hayward as Constance Chesley, the love interest of both men.
Director: Edward Ludwig
Starring: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley, Leonid Kinskey, J.M. Kerrigan
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1944, U, 3 Star)


14:30
The Guns of Fort Petticoat (Film)
George Marshall's western action-romance offers a unique feminine twist. Lt Frank Hewitt deserts the Union army to warn of an impending Native American attack on Texan farmers. But all the men are away fighting and the only hope the women have is to band together under Hewitt's command and learn how to fight. Hewitt's love interest comes in the form of the sassy Anne Martin.
Director: George Marshall
Starring: Audie Murphy, Kathryn Grant, Hope Emerson, Jeff Donnell, Jeanette Nolan, Sean McClory
(Subtitles, 1957, PG, 3 Star)


16:10
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.
Director: Zoltan Korda
Starring: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, Rosemary DeCamp, Patricia O'Rourke
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1942, U, 3 Star)


18:15
The Abyss (Film)
After Aliens, James Cameron took to the ocean's depths for this sci-fi thriller. Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio star as Bud and Li$$$ey Brigman, a husband-and-wife team running the rescue rig that's trying to get to a nuclear submarine that's gone down on the lip of one of the world's deepest sea trenches. But when psychotic Navy SEAL commander Lt Hiram Coffey launches a nuclear warhead into the trench, they discover they are not alone in the depths... Edited for language and violence.
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Todd Graff, John Bedford Lloyd
(Subtitles, 1989, 15, 4 Star)




21:00
Date Night (Film)
Tina Fey and Steve Carell star in Shawn Levy's chase comedy. Phil and Claire Foster feel their marriage has gone a tad stale and decide to pep it up by going out on a date, just like they used to do, before the kids and the mortgage and rest of life's inevitable distractions got in the way. In principal it's a good idea, but their first mistake is to attempt entry into one of Manhattan's swankiest restaurants without a reservation. Their second is far more serious: they bluff their way in, pretending to be a couple who have failed to show up for their table. Unfortunately for the Fosters, the absent diners have serious gangland connections. Even more unfortunately, the people whose identities they've adopted are due to be silenced forever by Mob hitmen. Cue a tightly plotted, gag-packed, headlong flight for survival, which has distinct echoes of the classics of the 40s screwball genre. And keep an eye out for memorable cameos from Mark Wahlberg and James Franco.
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P. Henson, Jimmi Simpson, Common
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 15, 3 Star)


22:45
Carlos (Music)
In this critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-winning three-part miniseries, French film-maker Olivier Assayas charts the rise and fall of the Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal. Edgar Ramirez takes the lead role, portraying Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who was born in 1949, and whose father was such a committed Marxist that he named his other two sons Vladimir and Lenin. But it was Ilich's crimes under the guise of Carlos the Jackal that brought him to the attention of the world. Assayas's work was also released as a 165-minute feature film, but Film4 is presenting it in its full miniseries-format glory. Part one begins in 1973, the year in which the murderous ideologue's fight for Palestinian rights saw him conduct attacks in London and Paris on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as well as get involved in a plot that would prove both audacious and ultimately cause a massive rift with his sponsors.
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, Part 1, 15)


00:50
Carlos (Film)
The critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-winning three-part miniseries, from French film-maker Olivier Assayas continues, with Edgar Ramirez again starring as international terrorist Carlos the Jackal. In part two, it's now 1975 and Carlos is leading a group of German and Palestinians on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Their mission: to storm the headquarters of OPEC and take hostage some of the most powerful men in charge of the world's oil production. The film concludes with Carlos - Part Three tomorrow night. Film4 premiere.
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, Part 2, 15)

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Friday 19th October
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11:00
The Bounty Hunter (Film)
Andre de Toth's western stars Randolph Scott as Jim Kipp, a bounty hunter hired by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to track down the whereabouts of $100,000 of government money stolen in a train robbery by three men, who are all wanted for murder. The trail leads him to the small mining town of Twin Forks but, with the three suspects masquerading as upright citizens and none of the money surfacing in the town's stores and saloons, Kipp has his work cut out earning his money.
Director: Andre de Toth
Starring: Randolph Scott, Dolores Dorn, Marie Wi$$$or, Howard Petrie, Harry Antrim, Robert Keys
(Subtitles, PG, 1954, 2 Star)


12:40
Hellfighters (Film)
Andrew V McLaglen's firefighting action adventure stars John Wayne and is based on the work of famed real-life extinguisher of oil well fires, Red Adair. Chance Buckman and his young partner Greg Parker have established themselves as the people to call whenever a major fire is burning out of control, and their perilous calling takes them around the globe to quell one dangerous conflagration after another. Complicating their lives are Buckman's relationship with his former wife Madelyn and Parker's spouse Tish, who is also Buckman's daughter.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Starring: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Jay C. Flippen, Bruce Cabot, Edward Faulkner
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1969, 2 Star)


15:00
Siege of the Saxons (Film)
Rousing historical romp in which King Arthur is betrayed and murdered by his champion knight, who assumes the throne in league with the invading Saxons. The only witness is an outlaw, who rescues the King's daughter and goes in search of Merlin, the mystical kingmaker who will be his ally in the battle ahead.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Ronald Lewis, Janette Scott, Ronald Howard, Mark Dignam, John Laurie, Jerome Willis
(Subtitles, 12, 1963, 2 Star)


16:45
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Film)
Alfred Hitchcock's remake of his own 1934 version of the thriller, this time featuring James Stewart and Doris Day in the lead roles. Doctor Ben McKenna is on holiday in Morocco with his wife, Jo, and son, Hank, when a man is fatally wounded in front of them. Before he dies, the victim manages to whisper something to the shocked doctor. It's incendiary information, and McKenna soon regrets being party to it, as Hank is kidnapped by people keen to ensure that the dead man's words are passed to no one. And so the scene is set for a headlong rush by the McKennas to track down their son and effect his safe release, leading to a memorable climax at London's Royal Albert Hall. The film won an Oscar for Best Song: Whatever Will Be, Will Be, performed by Day.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman, Daniel Gelin
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1956, 4 Star)


19:05
Nine Months (Film)
Hugh Grant plays child psychiatrist Samuel Faulkner who, ironically, can't stand children. So when his girlfriend Rebecca tells him she's pregnant, he's not thrilled. Eventually, fed up with his moaning, she moves out to stay with her frie$$$ Marty and Gail. This being a Chris Columbus film, it all e$$$ happily but not without complications along the way, in particular from Robin Williams as a Russian obstetrician who is prone to malapropisms and hasn't delivered a baby before.
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack, Jeff Goldblum, Robin Williams
(Edited for Language, Subtitles, Audio Described, 12, 1995, 1 Star)




21:00
Semi-Pro (Film)
Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson and Andr? Benjamin star in Kent Alterman's 70s-set, big-haired sports comedy. Jackie Moon is a musician whose sole chart success enables him to fulfil a long-held dream: buying and running a professional basketball team. It's 1976 and Moon's team, the Tropics, plays in the American Basketball Association league, which is about to be merged with the National Basketball Association. But only four teams from the ABA will survive the merger, and Moon is determined not to be left owning a defunct team. And, in addition to garnering the necessary points, the merger requires the successful teams to also attract at least 2000 fans to each home game - provoking Moon to stage a series of desperate game day publicity stunts, which range from the astute to the gloriously insane. Can Moon, his back-from-retirement signing Monix and the self-centred but promising youngster Clarence ensure the Tropics' survival? Film4 premiere.
Director: Kent Alterman
Starring: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Andre Benjamin, DeRay Davis, Maura Tierney, Andrew Daly
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 2008, 3 Star)


22:45
Carlos (Film)
The conclusion of the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-winning three-part miniseries from French film-maker Olivier Assayas, with Edgar Ramirez starring as international terrorist Carlos the Jackal. In the final part, and with the events of 1975 and his links to the Middle East firmly behind him, Carlos has thrown in his lot with a variety of violent European causes. But the coming change in world order is set to turn the terrorist's life upside down... Film4 premiere.
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, Part 3, 15)


01:10
Black Book (Film)
Paul Verhoeven returns to his Dutch roots with this visceral drama of life under Nazi occupation in the Netherla$$$. Rachel Stein is a Jewish woman intent on avenging her family's murder. She joins the Resistance and agrees to become the lover of high-ranking SS officer Ludwig Muntze in order to learn which Dutchmen are secretly collaborating with the occupiers. But she falls in love with the man rather than the monster and fi$$$ herself in danger, not only from the Nazis but also from her compatriots.
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Carice Van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus, Derek de Lint
(In Dutch and German with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 15, 2006, 4 Star)

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Saturday 20th October
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11:00
The History of Mr Polly (Film)
In Anthony Pelissier's adaptation of the HG Wells novel, John Mills plays the eponymous Mr Polly who, disillusioned by the constant nagging of his wife and his dull life, torches his shop and takes to the open road. He e$$$ up in the heart of the countryside where, after a few hitches, he begins a new life with a jovial innkeeper. But can this idyllic existence last for ever, and what of the family he left behind?
Director: Anthony Pelissier
Starring: John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins, Finlay Currie, Gladys Henson, Diana Churchill
(Black and White, Subtitles, U, 1949, 3 Star)


13:00
Hope Floats (Film)
What's the worst situation in which to discover that your partner has been cheating on you? Birdee Pruitt fi$$$ out her husband Bill has been having an affair with her best friend when they all take part in a daytime chat show. Humiliated, she leaves Chicago for her small home town, where all her old frie$$$ and neighbours have seen the show and are revelling in her downfall from once high-and-mighty prom queen. Except for Justin Matisse, an ex-school friend who has secretly carried a torch for her for years. Forest Whitaker's moving romantic drama charts Birdee's emotional fall and rise, with Gena Rowla$$$ as her mother providing the salty voice of reality, and Mae Whitman as her feisty daughter Bernice.
Director: Forest Whitaker
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowla$$$, Mae Whitman, Michael Pare, Cameron Finley
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1998, 3 Star)


15:15
James and the Giant Peach (Film)
Part live action, part animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's book from director Henry Selick. Orphan James lives with his tyrannical aunts. Through a magical series of events, a giant peach grows in their garden and when James takes a bite, it takes on a life of its own. He fi$$$ the peach is inhabited by colourful creatures including a spider, a centipede and a grasshopper. The motley crew set off on a sea voyage, via the frozen north, to find happiness in New York - but not before encountering fabulous creatures and having dangerous adventures.
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Paul Terry, Susan Sarandon, Joanna Lumley, Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves
(Widescreen, Subtitles, U, 1996, 3 Star)


16:50
The Nutty Professor (Film)
In the comedy that he both wrote and directed, Jerry Lewis stars as Julius Kelp: a socially awkward, unkempt university science professor. Persona non grata with his colleagues for continually destroying his lab, and picked upon by the students, Professor Kelp creates a potion that physically transforms him into his polar opposite. Kelp's alter ego, Buddy Love, is suave, sophisticated and a big hit with the students, especially Stella Purdy, with whom Love becomes amorously entangled. But the price for the Professor's new-found popularity is an extraordinary arrogance, and a tendency for the effects of his potion to wear off at the most inopportune times. How will Love's new buddies react when Kelp's secret is out?
Director: Jerry Lewis
Starring: Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Med Flory
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1963, 3 Star)


19:00
Drillbit Taylor (Film)
Steven Brill's comedy stars Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley and Ian Roberts as Ryan, Wade, and Jim, high school students born to be bullied, in this instance by Filkins. Deciding to put an end to it, they advertise for a bodyguard but the only one who comes at a price they can afford is ex-Ranger and black ops specialist Drillbit Taylor. What they don't know is that he is homeless, has no military experience and just wants their money to fund a trip to Canada. He infiltrates the school posing as a supply teacher but as well as falling for the English teacher Lisa, he fi$$$ himself increasingly involved in his employers' plight and has to decide whether to stay and fight or cut and run.
Director: Steven Brill
Starring: Nate Hartley, Troy Gentile, Ian Roberts, Owen Wilson, Casey Boersma, Dylan Boersma
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 12, 2008, 3 Star)




21:00
The Negotiator (Film)
When police hostage negotiator Danny Roman unwittingly gets involved in a colleague's attempt to expose financial fraud within the force he gets into very deep water. With his colleague found shot dead, and the embezzlement being pinned on him, Roman takes hostages from the Internal Affairs Department, including his chief accuser Terence Niebaum, in an attempt to buy himself time to prove his innocence. Roman dema$$$ the presence of Chris Sabian, a fellow hostage negotiator who works on the other side of the city, and who Roman hopes is unconnected to the plot to frame him. But can such a reckless strategy have any chance of paying off? F Gary Gray's action-thriller also stars David Morse, Siobhan Fallon and Paul Giamatti.
Director: F. Gary Gray
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, Ron Rifkin, John Spencer, J.T. Walsh
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 1998, 4 Star)


23:40
Final Destination 3 (Film)
James Wong, who directed the first film in the horror franchise, returns to helm this sequel starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Wendy Christensen has a premonition that the roller coaster she and her school frie$$$ are on is going to crash. And, sure enough, soon after they disembark, there is a spectacular, gory accident on the attraction. But, once again, Death will not be cheated of his due and, as the survivors succumb one-by-one in suitably ingenious ways, Wendy and her friend Kevin Fischer desperately try to work out who is next, and how they can escape.
Director: James Wong
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson, Sam Easton, Jesse Moss
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 2006, 2 Star)


01:25
A Scanner Darkly (Film)
After his first rotoscoped animation Waking Life, Richard Linklater turned to Philip K Dick's futuristic novel for his second excursion into this form of animation where he shoots live actors and then 'computer paints' over them. Keanu Reeves plays Bob Arctor, an undercover narcs cop who disguises his identity using a 'scramble suit' that transforms him into a walking hologram, changing face and clothes at every stride. He's gone so far undercover that he's become addicted to Substance D, the very drug he's supposedly tracking, and is having a listless affair with supplier Donna Hawthorne. As Arctor splits his days between reporting in to his bosses and mixing with Donna and their fellow addicts, he begins to wonder why his time and energy are being expended on what seems to be a low level operation.
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Rory Cochrane, Robert Downey Jr., Mitch Baker, Keanu Reeves, Sean Allen, Cliff Haby
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 2006, 4 Star)

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Sunday 21st October
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11:00
Pony Express (Film)
Jerry Hopper's all-action western stars Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill Cody, and Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickock, who set up the legendary Pony Express mail route. But when Rance and Evelyn Hastings and stagecoach owner Joe Cooper plot to split California from the union, the two Bills are forced to intervene to save their new business.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Starring: Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling, Forrest Tucker, Michael Thomas Moore, Porter Hall
(Subtitles, U, 1953, 3 Star)


13:00
Bogus (Film)
Haley Joel Osment plays Albert Franklin, a seven-year-old boy growing up in Las Vegas where his mother works as part of a stage circus act. But when she is killed in a car accident, he is sent to live with her half-sister Harriet Franklin, a businesswoman who has no time for the boy but reluctantly takes him on. To help him through his bereavement and new life, Albert invents an invisible friend, Bogus, a character from one of his books. But is Bogus just a figment of his imagination or a real entity? Norman Jewison, who directed Moonstruck and Only You, directs a winsome film with a feel-good factor that never grates, thanks to the three leads.
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Gerard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment, Andrea Martin, Nancy Travis, Denis Mercier
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1996, 3 Star)


15:10
The War of the Worlds (Film)
Adaptation of H G Wells's classic science fiction novel, updated to 1939 California and heavily influenced by Orson Welles's hoax radio broadcast. Seemingly unstoppable Martians abandon their dying planet and instigate a ruthlessly destructive colonisation of the Earth. Winner of an Oscar for special effects.
Director: Byron Haskin
Starring: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin
(Subtitles, PG, 1953, 4 Star)


16:50
Baby's Day Out (Film)
Patrick Read Johnson's comedy, scripted by John Hughes, stars Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano and Brian Haley as Eddie, Norby and Veeko, three inept criminals who kidnap Baby Bink, the son of a rich Chicago family. But while they are negotiating the ransom, Baby Bink escapes and begins to make his way back home. As the trio chase him, the infant manages to avoid a series of violent dangers, only for his pursuers to run straight into them. The film owes much to the cartoon violence of animation such as Road Runner, where falls and explosions are slapstick rather than fatal, while the interaction of the three criminals carries Hughes' trademark quick-fire humour.
Director: Patrick Read Johnson
Starring: Joe Mantegna, Lara-Flynn Boyle, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Haley, Cynthia Nixon, Fred Dalton Thompson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1994, 4 Star)


18:50
Entrapment (Film)
Sean Connery plays Robert 'Mac' MacDougal, one of the finest art thieves in the world, while Catherine Zeta-Jones is Virginia 'Gin' Baker, an insurance company agent who plans to trap him by offering the opportunity to crown his career: the theft of a $40 million Chinese mask. To do so, she has to set herself up as a thief eager to learn from the master, which she does, passing a series of tests. But as Jon Amiel's all-action thriller reaches its climax high above Kuala Lumpur's skyscrapers, both of them realise there are still lessons to be learnt.
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ving Rhames, Will Patton, Maury Chaykin, Kevin McNally
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 1999, 3 Star)




21:00
Terminator Salvation (Film)
Director McG takes the helm for the fourth instalment of the sci-fi action franchise, starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington. The principal action takes place in the not-too-distant 2018, in the devastated world that was glimpsed early in the series, where a determined group of resistance fighters are battling killing machines that are set on sole control of the planet. John Connor is one of the resistance leaders who discovers that their Skynet robot adversaries have a potentially fatal design flaw. They also learn that Skynet plans to imminently assassinate the top resistance leaders; Connor is second on the kill list to Kyle Reese, a civilian whose significance is known only to Connor. Meanwhile, Marcus Wright has also appeared on the scene - is he a mysterious warrior, out to defeat the machines, or does he have darker motives?
Director: Joseph McGinty Nichol
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood, Helena Bonham Carter, Anton Yelchin, Jadagrace
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 12, 2009, 3 Star)


23:10
Choke (Film)
Clark Gregg's black comedy - based on Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk's novel - stars Sam Rockwell as a man taking stock of his frayed life. Victor Mancini's mother Ida suffers from dementia, but his job at an 18th-century theme park doesn't bring in enough cash to cover her care costs. To supplement his income, he prete$$$ to choke on food in expensive restaurants, hoping his 'rescuers' will give him money once they hear his woes. In the meantime, he and his friend Denny attend meetings for their sex-addiction issues, where Victor picks up women for no-strings, no-joy sexual encounters. As Ida's condition worsens, she rarely recognises Victor, but starts to believe that Denny is her son. Anxious to discover who his father was before it's too late, Victor tries to find out via Denny's conversations with Ida. But, ultimately, it's Paige Marshall, an angelic nurse at the home, who gives some surprising news about his parentage, as well as offering Victor the hope of a happier future.
Director: Clark Gregg
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kathryn Alexander, Teodorina Bello, Kate Blumberg, Jonah Bobo
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 2008, 3 Star)


01:00
Purely Belter (Film)
Touching comedy drama about a pair of troubled young Geordie boys who are determined to buy season tickets to see their beloved Newcastle United. Realising that giving up smoking will not save them the hefty amount they need, the pair dream up a number of moneymaking schemes before graduating to shoplifting and bank robbery, until events take an unexpected turn.
Director: Mark Herman
Starring: Tracy Whitwell, Chris Beattie, Greg McLane, Charlie Hardwick, Roy Hudd, Kevin Whately
(Subtitles, 15, 2000, 3 Star)

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Monday 22nd October
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11:00
The Professionals (Film)
Fast-moving, action-packed western starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode as soldiers of fortune hired by millionaire rancher Ralph Bellamy to rescue his wife Claudia Cardinale, who has been kidnapped by Mexican bandit Jack Palance.
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 4 Star)


13:25
The Robe (Film)
Henry Koster's Biblical epic stars Oscar-nominated Richard Burton as Marcellus Gallio, a Roman centurion present at the Crucifixion, who wins Jesus's robe in a bet. But he's tormented and fi$$$ his life changed, along with those of his Greek slave Demetrius and his life-long love Diana.
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Jay Robinson, Dean Jagger
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1953, U, 3 Star)


16:00
Topaz (Film)
Alfred Hitchcock's spy thriller stars Frederick Stafford as Andre Devereaux, a French secret agent who becomes involved in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. A mole is leaking secrets to Cuba and, with the help of CIA agent Michael Nordstrom and anti-Castro exile Juanita de Cordoba, the action moves from Russia via Europe to Cuba, as the crisis deepens and time runs out. Can they track down the double agent before it's too late?
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, Karin Dor, John Kerrigan
(Subtitles, 1969, PG, 4 Star)


18:50
Hope Floats (Film)
What's the worst situation in which to discover that your partner has been cheating on you? Birdee Pruitt fi$$$ out her husband Bill has been having an affair with her best friend when they all take part in a daytime chat show. Humiliated, she leaves Chicago for her small home town, where all her old frie$$$ and neighbours have seen the show and are revelling in her downfall from once high-and-mighty prom queen. Except for Justin Matisse, an ex-school friend who has secretly carried a torch for her for years. Forest Whitaker's moving romantic drama charts Birdee's emotional fall and rise, with Gena Rowla$$$ as her mother providing the salty voice of reality, and Mae Whitman as her feisty daughter Bernice.
Director: Forest Whitaker
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowla$$$, Mae Whitman, Michael Pare, Cameron Finley
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, PG, 3 Star)


21:00
Fracture (Film)
Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling and David Strathairn star in Gregory Hoblit's twist-filled legal drama. When top airplane engineer Ted Crawford discovers that his wife has been cheating on him he takes a devastatingly direct route to revenge: he drives home and shoots his errant spouse in the face. He then waits for the police to turn up and confesses to the crime. With his wife in a coma, Crawford is arrested and enters the justice system. It should, of course, be the simplest prosecution ever. And lawyer Willy Beachum can be forgiven for thinking that his last case as a criminal attorney will be a doddle. However, once in court, Crawford, representing himself, proceeds to tear apart the ample evidence that's stacked against him. Can he possibly get away with his crime?
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz, Billy Burke
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 15, 3 Star)




23:10
Aeon Flux (Film)
Karyn Kusama's sci-fi thriller is set in the 25th century, when, following the outbreak of a killer virus, the remnants of humanity live in the city of Bregna, ruled by Trevor Goodchild. But his draconian rule is threatened by a bunch of rebels led by Handler, who orders Aeon Flux to kill Goodchild. Aeon also has a personal reason to murder him, since he ordered the death of her sister Una. But when she breaks into his inner sanctum, she discovers awful truths about their joint pasts and why the population of the city is so stable and healthy.
Director: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Frances McDormand, Pete Postlethwaite
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 15, 3 Star)


00:55
A Mighty Heart (Film)
Michael Winterbottom's drama is based on the true, tragic story of the 2002 kidnapping of Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. Pearl, played by Dan Futterman, goes missing while working on a story about shoe-bomber Richard Reid. After his kidnapping, the film concentrates on the efforts of his pregnant wife Mariane to find out his whereabouts, pressurising the authorities both in Pakistan and America and making televised appeals for his safe return. Jolie is outstanding at the centre of the film, maintaining a calm exterior while torn apart inside by fear and worry as the days pass without a word.
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Dan Futterman, Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Mohammed Afzal, Mushtaq Khan, Daud Khan
(Widescreen, In French/Urdu/Arabic with English Subtitles, 2007, 15, 3 Star)

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Tuesday 23rd October
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11:00
The Guns of Fort Petticoat (Film)
George Marshall's western action-romance offers a unique feminine twist. Lt Frank Hewitt deserts the Union army to warn of an impending Native American attack on Texan farmers. But all the men are away fighting and the only hope the women have is to band together under Hewitt's command and learn how to fight. Hewitt's love interest comes in the form of the sassy Anne Martin.
Director: George Marshall
Starring: Audie Murphy, Kathryn Grant, Hope Emerson, Jeff Donnell, Jeanette Nolan, Sean McClory
(Subtitles, 1957, PG, 3 Star)


12:40
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Film)
Alfred Hitchcock's remake of his own 1934 version of the thriller, this time featuring James Stewart and Doris Day in the lead roles. Doctor Ben McKenna is on holiday in Morocco with his wife, Jo, and son, Hank, when a man is fatally wounded in front of them. Before he dies, the victim manages to whisper something to the shocked doctor. It's incendiary information, and McKenna soon regrets being party to it, as Hank is kidnapped by people keen to ensure that the dead man's words are passed to no one. And so the scene is set for a headlong rush by the McKennas to track down their son and effect his safe release, leading to a memorable climax at London's Royal Albert Hall. The film won an Oscar for Best Song: Whatever Will Be, Will Be, performed by Day.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman, Daniel Gelin
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1956, PG, 4 Star)


15:00
Shenandoah (Film)
James Stewart stars as Charlie Anderson in this beautiful drama about a widower and wealthy Virginia farming patriarch trying to keep his family together and safe in the midst of the encroaching Civil War. The family struggles to ignore the war tearing apart their Shenandoah Valley community and ultimately also becomes part of the fight. How Charlie survives overwhelming tragedy, from the capture of his young son by the Confederate Army to his daughter's love for a Confederate soldier and the untimely deaths of his other son and daughter-in-law, with Stewart's famous soliloquy by his wife's grave, is the moving story that made this drama so successful. In fact, Stewart's speech was so popular it was released as a record.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Starring: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Rosemary Forsyth, Phillip Alford
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1965, PG, 4 Star)


17:05
The Nutty Professor (Film)
In the comedy that he both wrote and directed, Jerry Lewis stars as Julius Kelp: a socially awkward, unkempt university science professor. Persona non grata with his colleagues for continually destroying his lab, and picked upon by the students, Professor Kelp creates a potion that physically transforms him into his polar opposite. Kelp's alter ego, Buddy Love, is suave, sophisticated and a big hit with the students, especially Stella Purdy, with whom Love becomes amorously entangled. But the price for the Professor's new-found popularity is an extraordinary arrogance, and a tendency for the effects of his potion to wear off at the most inopportune times. How will Love's new buddies react when Kelp's secret is out?
Director: Jerry Lewis
Starring: Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Med Flory
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1963, PG, 3 Star)


19:15
The Simpsons Movie (Film)
America's favourite family make their debut on the big screen in David Silverman's comedy. When Homer rescues a pig from certain death, little does he realise the full consequences of his action: Springfield's isolation from the world by a gargantuan glass dome. It's the only way the government can prevent the pollution that he caused from escaping to the outside world and creating a race of six-eyed squirrels. The townsfolk, armed with torches and pitchforks, are soon after him, and the family have to flee to Alaska. But even Homer knows he must return to do the right thing... Warning: contains full frontal Bart nudity.
Director: David Silverman
Starring: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, PG, 3 Star)




21:00
Date Night (Film)
Tina Fey and Steve Carell star in Shawn Levy's chase comedy. Phil and Claire Foster feel their marriage has gone a tad stale and decide to pep it up by going out on a date, just like they used to do, before the kids and the mortgage and rest of life's inevitable distractions got in the way. In principal it's a good idea, but their first mistake is to attempt entry into one of Manhattan's swankiest restaurants without a reservation. Their second is far more serious: they bluff their way in, pretending to be a couple who have failed to show up for their table. Unfortunately for the Fosters, the absent diners have serious gangland connections. Even more unfortunately, the people whose identities they've adopted are due to be silenced forever by Mob hitmen. Cue a tightly plotted, gag-packed, headlong flight for survival, which has distinct echoes of 40s screwball classics. And keep an eye out for memorable cameos from Mark Wahlberg and James Franco.
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P. Henson, Jimmi Simpson, Common
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 15, 3 Star)


22:45
Tiny Furniture (Film)
Writer/director Lena Dunham makes her feature debut and stars with real-life family members Laurie Simmons and Grace Dunham in this smart comedy-drama about a film school graduate struggling to match the success of the rest of her family and frie$$$. Full.
(Widescreen, 2010, 15)


00:40
Persepolis (Film)
Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's Oscar-winning animation is based on Satrapi's graphic novel, which, in turn, is based on her life in pre- and post-revolutionary Iran and then in Europe. The film veers between the personal and the political, tracing Satrapi's growth from child to rebellious, Anglo-American-music-loving teenager in Iran. In the background are the growing tensions of the political climate in Iran in the 70s and 80s, with members of her liberal-leaning family detained and even executed; and the repercussions of the protracted Iran-Iraq War. At college in Europe she becomes politicised, and discovers drugs and sex.
Director: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, Gabrielle Lopes, Francois Jerosme
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 12, 4 Star)


02:30
Old Joy (Film)
Director-writer Kelly Reichardt's film is a deceptively gentle drama about a frie$$$hip renewed. Kurt and Mark, two frie$$$ who have lost touch, decide to re-kindle their relationship with a weekend trek through Oregon's mountains. They talk, with Mark concerned about imminent fatherhood while Kurt is more meditative, but will their bond be re-forged by the end of the journey?
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: Daniel London, Will Oldham, Tanya Smith, Robin Rosenberg, Keri Moran, Autumn Campbell
(2006, 15, 3 Star)

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Wednesday 24th October
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11:00
The Bounty Hunter (Film)
Andre de Toth's western stars Randolph Scott as Jim Kipp, a bounty hunter hired by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to track down the whereabouts of $100,000 of government money stolen in a train robbery by three men, who are all wanted for murder. The trail leads him to the small mining town of Twin Forks but, with the three suspects masquerading as upright citizens and none of the money surfacing in the town's stores and saloons, Kipp has his work cut out earning his money.
Director: Andre de Toth
Starring: Randolph Scott, Dolores Dorn, Marie Wi$$$or, Howard Petrie, Harry Antrim, Robert Keys
(Subtitles, 1954, PG, 2 Star)


12:35
Sea Wife (Film)
An offbeat melodrama. An RAF officer, a Sea Wife, a nun, a brash businessman and a purser all end up drifting on a life raft in the Indian Ocean after their ship is torpedoed. Romantic and racial tensions divide the four as they hope for rescue in Bob McNaught's taut film.
Director: Bob McNaught
Starring: Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant, Ronald Squire, Joan Hickson
(Subtitles, 1957, U, 2 Star)


14:15
'Pimpernel' Smith (Film)
Leslie Howard directs and stars in this wartime morale booster based on Baroness Orczy's novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. Howard plays mild-mannered archaeologist Horatio Smith who, under the guise of searching for Aryan artefacts near the Swiss border, smuggles refugees from the Nazis to safety. But his most dangerous rescue takes him to Berlin, to save a young girl who has been forced to help the Germans find information that will accidentally betray Smith's organisation. Can he spirit her to safety from under the nose of his Gestapo adversary General Von Graum?
Director: Leslie Howard
Starring: Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris, Hugh McDermott, Raymond Huntley, Manning Whiley
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1941, U, 4 Star)


16:35
The War of the Worlds (Film)
Adaptation of H G Wells's classic science fiction novel, updated to 1939 California and heavily influenced by Orson Welles's hoax radio broadcast. Seemingly unstoppable Martians abandon their dying planet and instigate a ruthlessly destructive colonisation of the Earth. Winner of an Oscar for special effects.
Director: Byron Haskin
Starring: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin
(Subtitles, 1953, PG, 4 Star)


18:15
The Abyss (Film)
After Aliens, James Cameron took to the ocean's depths for this sci-fi thriller. Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio star as Bud and Li$$$ey Brigman, a husband-and-wife team running the rescue rig that's trying to get to a nuclear submarine that's gone down on the lip of one of the world's deepest sea trenches. But when psychotic Navy SEAL commander Lt Hiram Coffey launches a nuclear warhead into the trench, they discover they are not alone in the depths... Edited for content.
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Todd Graff, John Bedford Lloyd
(Subtitles, 1989, 15, 4 Star)




21:00
Twilight (Film)
Kristen Stewart stars in Catherine Hardwicke's adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling series of romantic fantasy novels about a teenage girl who falls in love with a vampire. When her mother remarries, Bella Swan moves to Washington State to live with her father Charlie. There, in the small, perpetually wintry town of Forks, she starts her new life, though she has no inkling of quite how different it's going to be. At her new school she quickly establishes herself as both a bit of a klutz and a hunk magnet. But she's not interested in most of the guys, apart from the moodily ha$$$ome, ashen complexioned Edward Cullen. And when he saves her from various threatening situations, their mutual attraction is sealed. There's just one problem: he's a vampire. But although Edward and his undead family are 'vegetarians' who don't feed on humans, his breed find it very difficult to control their overwhelming desire for human blood when their emotions switch from love to lust.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 3 Star)


23:25
Final Destination 3 (Film)
James Wong, who directed the first film in the horror franchise, returns to helm this sequel starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Wendy Christensen has a premonition that the roller coaster she and her school frie$$$ are on is going to crash. And, sure enough, soon after they disembark, there is a spectacular, gory accident on the attraction. But, once again, Death will not be cheated of his due and, as the survivors succumb one-by-one in suitably ingenious ways, Wendy and her friend Kevin Fischer desperately try to work out who is next, and how they can escape.
Director: James Wong
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson, Sam Easton, Jesse Moss
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 15, 2 Star)


01:10
You, the Living (Film)
Roy Andersson's intriguing comedic meditation on sorrow and suffering uses 50 vignettes to present individuals who believe no one else suffers as they do. A psychiatrist asks what is the point of trying to help people; a girl imagines her marriage to a rock star she has never met; a bass drum player dismisses his neighbours who complain when he rehearses. What could be a seemingly never-ending litany of woes is leavened by dashes of the surreal and plenty of bone-dry humour.
Director: Roy Andersson
Starring: Jessika Lundberg, Elisabeth Helander, Bjorn Englund, Leif Larsson, Olle Olson, Birgitta Persson
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Swedish with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2007, 15, 4 Star)

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Thursday 25th October
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11:00
The Last Mitterand (Film)
Concentrating on the last year of President Francois Mitterand's life, the film is narrated by journalist Antoine Moreau, who has been hired to write his memoirs and who becomes obsessed with Mitterand's role in the Vichy government during the Second World War. As the film progresses, Antoine's probing reveals the contradictions of one of Europe's last socialist leaders, from his beliefs to his philandering, and offers a fascinating portrait of a flawed statesman who took some of his secrets to the grave.
Director: Robert Guediguian
Starring: Michel Bouquet, Jalil Lespert, Philippe Fretun, Anne Cantineau, Sarah Grappin, Catherine Salviat
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, PG, 2005, 3 Star)


13:15
Pony Express (Film)
Jerry Hopper's all-action western stars Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill Cody, and Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickock, who set up the legendary Pony Express mail route. But when Rance and Evelyn Hastings and stagecoach owner Joe Cooper plot to split California from the union, the two Bills are forced to intervene to save their new business.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Starring: Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling, Forrest Tucker, Michael Thomas Moore, Porter Hall
(Subtitles, U, 1953, 3 Star)


15:15
The Conqueror (Film)
Dick Powell's historical epic, Howard Hughes' final movie as a producer, stars John Wayne as Temujin, later Genghis Khan, the feared Mongol leader. The film charts his rise to power and his love for the beautiful kidnapped Tartar princess Bortai, who first despises him and then falls for him. The exteriors were shot in the deserts of Utah, which were used for nuclear testing; of the 220 crew, over 90, including Wayne, Hayward and Powell, subsequently contracted cancer.
Director: Dick Powell
Starring: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Agnes Moorehead, Thomas Gomez, John Hoyt
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1956, 2 Star)


17:25
James and the Giant Peach (Film)
Part live action, part animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's book from director Henry Selick. Orphan James lives with his tyrannical aunts. Through a magical series of events, a giant peach grows in their garden and when James takes a bite, it takes on a life of its own. He fi$$$ the peach is inhabited by colourful creatures including a spider, a centipede and a grasshopper. The motley crew set off on a sea voyage, via the frozen north, to find happiness in New York - but not before encountering fabulous creatures and having dangerous adventures.
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Paul Terry, Susan Sarandon, Joanna Lumley, Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves
(Widescreen, Subtitles, U, 1996, 3 Star)


19:00
Drillbit Taylor (Film)
Steven Brill's comedy stars Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley and Ian Roberts as Ryan, Wade, and Jim, high school students born to be bullied, in this instance by Filkins. Deciding to put an end to it, they advertise for a bodyguard but the only one who comes at a price they can afford is ex-Ranger and black ops specialist Drillbit Taylor. What they don't know is that he is homeless, has no military experience and just wants their money to fund a trip to Canada. He infiltrates the school posing as a supply teacher but as well as falling for the English teacher Lisa, he fi$$$ himself increasingly involved in his employers' plight and has to decide whether to stay and fight or cut and run. Edited for content.
Director: Steven Brill
Starring: Nate Hartley, Troy Gentile, Ian Roberts, Owen Wilson, Casey Boersma, Dylan Boersma
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 12, 2008, 3 Star)




21:00
Fracture (Film)
Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling and David Strathairn star in Gregory Hoblit's twist-filled legal drama. When top airplane engineer Ted Crawford discovers that his wife has been cheating on him he takes a devastatingly direct route to revenge: he drives home and shoots his errant spouse in the face. He then waits for the police to turn up and confesses to the crime. With his wife in a coma, Crawford is arrested and enters the justice system. It should, of course, be the simplest prosecution ever. And lawyer Willy Beachum can be forgiven for thinking that his last case as a criminal attorney will be a doddle. However, once in court, Crawford, representing himself, proceeds to tear apart the ample evidence that's stacked against him. Can he possibly get away with his crime?
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz, Billy Burke
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 2007, 3 Star)


23:10
Me, Myself and Irene (Film)
Anarchic comedy about a Rhode Island State Trooper with a split personality who falls in love with the woman he is supposed to be escorting to New York for questioning. When he loses the medication that keeps his unpleasant alter ego at bay, both sides of his personality fight each other for the lady's affections.
Director: Peter Farrelly
Starring: Jim Carrey, Renee Zellweger, Anthony Anderson, Mongo Brownlee, Kate Forster
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 2000, 2 Star)


01:30
A Time to Leave (Film)
Francois Ozon's drama stars Melvil Poupaud as Romain, a gay Parisian photographer who is diagnosed with a fatal tumour. Rather than confiding in frie$$$ and family, he refuses treatment, splits with his boyfriend and poisons his relationship with his sister before opening up to his grandmother Laura. In doing so, he remembers visions of his younger, happier self, even as he prepares to embrace death.
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Daniel Duval, Marie Riviere, Christian Sengewald
(In French and German with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 18, 2005, 4 Star)

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Friday 26th October
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11:00
Topaz (Film)
Alfred Hitchcock's spy thriller stars Frederick Stafford as Andre Devereaux, a French secret agent who becomes involved in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. A mole is leaking secrets to Cuba and, with the help of CIA agent Michael Nordstrom and anti-Castro exile Juanita de Cordoba, the action moves from Russia via Europe to Cuba, as the crisis deepens and time runs out. Can they track down the double agent before it's too late?
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, Karin Dor, John Kerrigan
(Subtitles, 1969, PG, 4 Star)


13:55
The Professionals (Film)
Fast-moving, action-packed western starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode as soldiers of fortune hired by millionaire rancher Ralph Bellamy to rescue his wife Claudia Cardinale, who has been kidnapped by Mexican bandit Jack Palance.
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 4 Star)


16:15
Skyfall Interview Special (Entertainment)
This short programme, in which Daniel Craig and his fellow cast members join director Sam Mendes to talk about the new 007 adventure, Skyfall, kicks off an evening of Bond-themed movies to celebrate the release of the latest adventure in the franchise. The evening's subsequent films each feature a key creative talent involved with the making of Skyfall.


16:25
A Room with a View (Film)
Adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel. Maggie Smith encounters the uncouth Denholm Elliott and his son Julian Sa$$$. After an unpleasant incident, the woman returns to Surrey but when Elliott and Sa$$$ turn up as tenants of a nearby house, all sorts of romantic complications ensue.
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sa$$$, Simon Callow, Patrick Godfrey, Judi Dench
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1985, PG, 4 Star)


18:40
Entrapment (Film)
Sean Connery plays Robert 'Mac' MacDougal, one of the finest art thieves in the world, while Catherine Zeta-Jones is Virginia 'Gin' Baker, an insurance company agent who plans to trap him by offering the opportunity to crown his career: the theft of a $40 million Chinese mask. To do so, she has to set herself up as a thief eager to learn from the master, which she does, passing a series of tests. But as Jon Amiel's all-action thriller reaches its climax high above Kuala Lumpur's skyscrapers, both of them realise there are still lessons to be learnt. Edited for content.
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ving Rhames, Will Patton, Maury Chaykin, Kevin McNally
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, 12, 3 Star)




20:50
Skyfall Interview Special (Entertainment)
Daniel Craig and his fellow cast members join director Sam Mendes to talk about the new 007 adventure, Skyfall.


21:00
Layer Cake (Film)
A clever gangster movie, based on J.J. Connolly's London based crime thriller. Daniel Craig stars as XXXX, a drug dealer who's made his money and plans to retire. He doesn't see himself as a crook, more as a successful businessman about to take a well-earned rest. However, mob boss Mr Big has other ideas, and forces him to do one last job - track down the smack-addicted daughter of a wealthy man.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman, Sally Hawkins, Burn Gorman, George Harris
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, 15, 3 Star)


23:05
Away We Go (Film)
A romantic comedy-drama from director Sam Mendes, from a script by husband-and-wife team Dave Eggars and Vendela Vida, and starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph. Burt and Verona are in their thirties, have been together a long time and are deeply in love. Verona is also heavily pregnant. Their lives aren't exactly mapped out, but they have the sort of jobs that mean they can work from their scruffy-but-comfortable Colorado home, and Burt's parents, Gloria and Jerry, live just down the road, so they've got the childcare covered and things are looking good. But when Gloria and Jerry announce they're off on an extended trip to Belgium when the baby is due to arrive, suddenly all bets are off. Realising they can't rely on Burt's parents and that they can work from anywhere in the country, Burt and Verona take to the road, visiting frie$$$ and family in a quest to find the perfect place for them to raise their child... and encountering some 'interesting' parenting methods along the way.
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Carmen Ejogo, Catherine O'Hara, Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 15, 4 Star)


00:55
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 Amenabar
Starring: Javier Bardem, Belen Rueda, Lola Duenas, Mabel Rivera, Celso Bugallo, Clara Segura
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2004, PG, 4 Star)

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Saturday 27th October
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11:00
Baby's Day Out (Film)
Patrick Read Johnson's comedy, scripted by John Hughes, stars Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano and Brian Haley as Eddie, Norby and Veeko, three inept criminals who kidnap Baby Bink, the son of a rich Chicago family. But while they are negotiating the ransom, Baby Bink escapes and begins to make his way back home. As the trio chase him, the infant manages to avoid a series of violent dangers, only for his pursuers to run straight into them. The film owes much to the cartoon violence of animation such as Road Runner, where falls and explosions are slapstick rather than fatal, while the interaction of the three criminals carries Hughes' trademark quick-fire humour.
Director: Patrick Read Johnson
Starring: Joe Mantegna, Lara-Flynn Boyle, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Haley, Cynthia Nixon, Fred Dalton Thompson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1994, PG, 4 Star)


13:00
The Addams Family (Film)
Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia star in Barry Sonnenfeld's comedy as Morticia and Gomez Addams, head of one of cinema's more morbidly funny families. Based on Charles Addams' famous cartoons, the family welcome long-lost Uncle Fester to their bosom. But is he really all he seems? Featuring Christina Ricci and Jimmy Workman as Wednesday and Pugsley Addams, the delightfully malicious offspring.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Wilson, Christina Ricci, Judith Malina
(Subtitles, 1991, PG, 3 Star)


14:55
Doctor Dolittle (Film)
Rex Harrison stars in Richard Fleischer's charming adaptation of Hugh Lofting's classic children's book as the eccentric Doctor Dolittle, who can converse with animals in 849 languages. Wrongly imprisoned for releasing a captive seal into the wild, he is rescued by his friend Tommy and the pair set off with Matthew Muggins in search of the mythical pink sea snail.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough, Peter Bull, Muriel Landers
(Subtitles, 1967, U, 3 Star)


17:50
Australia (Film)
Director Baz Luhrmann offers a western-cum-war-adventure-cum-romance hybrid that's set in the Australian outback and stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It is 1939 and Lady Sarah Ashley has travelled halfway round the world to persuade her husband to sell his cattle station and return back home to Blighty. But she hasn't anticipated the primitive realities of life in northern Australia, nor has her upbringing prepared her for an encounter with the likes of the rough and ready Drover who is instructed to chaperone her from Darwin to the ranch. But the pair are fated to become much more closely acquainted than either could have imagined. The plot also encompasses the lot of the region's Aboriginal people, via the plight of local lad Nullah, and the first Japanese attacks on the northern territories.
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Brandon Walters, Bryan Brown, David Wenham, Jacek Koman
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 12, 4 Star)


21:00
The Women (Film)
Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes and Annette Bening head an all-female cast in this comedy drama, a remake of George Cukor's 1939 satire, from writer-director Diane English. Mary Haines thinks she has it all - a happy marriage, a lovely daughter, a top clothes designer job at her father's firm and a solid circle of very good frie$$$. But then she hears through the grapevine that her husband is having an affair with a perfume saleswoman and, with that one thread unpicked, her entire world begins to unravel.
Director: Diane English
Starring: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bette Midler
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 2 Star)




23:20
Mirrors (Film)
Kiefer Sutherland stars in hardcore horror director Alexandre Aja's remake of the Korean psychological/supernatural chiller Into the Mirror. Ben Carson's life is on a downward trajectory: he's been suspended from his police detective post; he's losing his battle with alcoholism; and he seems determined to test to destruction his relationship with his estranged wife Amy. To make e$$$ meet, Carson takes a night watchman job at the Mayflower, a massive department store that was badly damaged in an arson attack some time ago. While on his rou$$$, he starts to catch sight of startling images featuring violent visions of self-mutilation in the abandoned shop's various mirrors. Initially he ascribes his experiences to being alone in unsettling isolation at night. However, when his family also starts to be affected, he is convinced they are all in danger.
Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Cameron Boyce, Erica Gluck, Amy Smart, Mary Beth Peil
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 3 Star)


01:30
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 rid herself 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, 2007, 15, 3 Star)

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Sunday 28th October
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11:00
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (Film)
When his bride-to-be is shrunk by an evil magician, Sinbad has no choice but to head for the island of Colossa, where he must overcome a series of daunting adversaries and obstacles in a bid to retrieve both Aladdin's lamp and the piece of giant roc eggshell that will restore his fiance to normal size. Directed by Nathan Juran, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher, Alec Mango, Danny Green
(Subtitles, 1958, U, 4 Star)


13:00
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 fi$$$ 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, 2006, PG, 2 Star)


15:00
The Simpsons Movie (Film)
America's favourite family make their debut on the big screen in David Silverman's comedy. When Homer rescues a pig from certain death, little does he realise the full consequences of his action: Springfield's isolation from the world by a gargantuan glass dome. It's the only way the government can prevent the pollution that he caused from escaping to the outside world and creating a race of six-eyed squirrels. The townsfolk, armed with torches and pitchforks, are soon after him, and the family have to flee to Alaska. But even Homer knows he must return to do the right thing... Warning: contains full frontal Bart nudity.
Director: David Silverman
Starring: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, PG, 3 Star)


16:45
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (Film)
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as Tom and Kate Baker, parents to 12 kids, in Adam Shankman's sequel to the comedy hit. The children are now older, and getting ready to leave home, so Tom arranges a final family holiday in rural Wisconsin. Unfortunately, also at the campsite are his rival Jimmy Murtaugh, his trophy wife Sarina and their eight offspring. But despite the two men trying to outdo each other, the two sets of kids become frie$$$, with Sarah Baker and Eliot Murtaugh touching as the two teenagers experiencing first love.
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Steve Martin, Eugene Levy, Bonnie Hunt, Tom Welling, Piper Perabo, Carmen Electra
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 3 Star)


18:35
Iron Man (Film)
Jon Favreau's all-action movie stars Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark, the world's richest and most powerful arms manufacturer and dealer. But, while demonstrating his latest weapon in the Middle East, he's kidnapped by insurgents who are after his knowledge. Kept prisoner with a fellow scientist, he constructs an iron exo-skeleton that gives him super-human strength and enables him to escape. Back home, and now a reformed character, he refines his invention until he becomes Iron Man, scourge of warmongers at home and abroad. But not all of his enemies are out in the open and he soon faces a threat close to home. With Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane, Stark's business partner, and Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, his long-suffering but loyal personal assistant.
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 4 Star)




21:00
The Negotiator (Film)
When police hostage negotiator Danny Roman unwittingly gets involved in a colleague's attempt to expose financial fraud within the force he gets into very deep water. With his colleague found shot dead, and the embezzlement being pinned on him, Roman takes hostages from the Internal Affairs Department, including his chief accuser Terence Niebaum, in an attempt to buy himself time to prove his innocence. Roman dema$$$ the presence of Chris Sabian, a fellow hostage negotiator who works on the other side of the city, and who Roman hopes is unconnected to the plot to frame him. But can such a reckless strategy have any chance of paying off? F Gary Gray's action-thriller also stars David Morse, Siobhan Fallon and Paul Giamatti.
Director: F. Gary Gray
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, Ron Rifkin, John Spencer, J.T. Walsh
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, 15, 4 Star)


23:40
Indecent Proposal (Film)
Happily married couple Diana and David Murphy find themselves at risk of financial destitution when the recession hits them. Deciding to take a huge risk, they head for Las Vegas hoping to win on the tables. The gamble proves disastrous, but enigmatic millionaire John Gage offers the couple a chance to save themselves from financial ruin. His proposal: that Diana spe$$$ a night with him for in exchange for a million dollars. It's an offer that forces the couple to question their own moral standards and confront the truth about their relationship. Director Adrian Lyne prompted audiences to ask questions of themselves: what comes first, love or money?
Director: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Seymour Cassel, Oliver Platt, Billy Bob Thornton
(Subtitles, 1993, 15, 2 Star)


01:55
Samson and Delilah (Film)
Cannes Film Festival award-winning drama from first-time director Warwick Thornton. Fourteen-year-old Aboriginal kids Samson and Delilah hail from an isolated community in the Central Australian desert, where - for Samson - sniffing petrol is one of the few available ways of escaping the suffocating grimness of daily life. After a persistent campaign to gain Delilah's affections, Sampson steals the community's sole motor car and persuades her to elope with him to Alice Springs. But if they thought things were bad for them at home, their experiences in Alice are far worse. Can their feelings for each other survive the appalling events that happen to them in the big city?
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Starring: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon, Olive Deering
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1949, U, 4 Star)

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Monday 29th October
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11:00
Sea Wife (Film)
An offbeat melodrama. An RAF officer, a Sea Wife, a nun, a brash businessman and a purser all end up drifting on a life raft in the Indian Ocean after their ship is torpedoed. Romantic and racial tensions divide the four as they hope for rescue in Bob McNaught's taut film.
Director: Bob McNaught
Starring: Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant, Ronald Squire, Joan Hickson
(Subtitles, 1957, U, 2 Star)


12:40
Kim (Film)
Based on Rudyard Kipling's famous tale, Victor Saville's epic film stars Errol Flynn as Mahbub Ali, the 'Red Beard', a dashing thief who befrie$$$ Kim, the orphaned son of a British soldier, and sees him through adventures including the thwarting of Russian agitators in the Khyber Pass and a sojurn with a holy lama.
Director: Victor Saville
Starring: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez, Cecil Kellaway
(Subtitles, 1950, U, 4 Star)


15:00
Robots (Film)
An animated coming-of-age-tale from the people responsible for Ice Age. Chris Wedge's film features Rodney Copperbottom, an inventor who travels to Robot City to sell his ideas to the tycoon Big Weld. On arrival in the metropolis, he's befriended by Fender, who acts as his guide to the town and its mores. Rodney quickly fi$$$ that even a society of robots isn't interested in the perfection he's offering, especially when the need for perpetual upgrades results in a constant flow of profits. But, with Fender's help and the love of Cappy, he decides to confront the Big Weld and attempt to change society.
Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
Starring: Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Mel Brooks, Lucille Bliss, Paula Abdul, Terry Bradshaw, Drew Carey
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, U, 3 Star)


16:45
The 39 Steps (Film)
Kenneth More stars as Richard Hannay in the second film adaptation of John Buchan's ripping espionage yarn. It's more than a simple remake of Alfred Hitchcock's original 1935 movie, played this time for light-hearted excitement rather than suspense. And it certainly fulfils its ambition, as Hannay gamely romps around the Scottish countryside in a 48-hour dash to save the day by cracking an international plot to smuggle defence plans out of Britain.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Barry Jones, Reginald Beckwith, Faith Brook
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1959, U, 3 Star)


18:50
The Devil Wears Prada (Film)
In David Frankel's whip-smart comedy Anne Hathaway stars as Andy Sachs, a would-be journalist from Ohio who la$$$ a job as assistant to the assistant of Miranda Priestly, editor of the successful fashion magazine Runway and an egomaniac in immaculate clothing. Andy soon learns that her personal life and her partner Nate run a distant second to Miranda's whims. But a mutual respect slowly grows between the two women.
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Adrian Grenier
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, PG, 3 Star)




21:00
Twilight (Film)
Kristen Stewart stars in Catherine Hardwicke's adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling series of romantic fantasy novels about a teenage girl who falls in love with a vampire. When her mother remarries, Bella Swan moves to Washington State to live with her father Charlie. There, in the small, perpetually wintry town of Forks, she starts her new life, though she has no inkling of quite how different it's going to be. At her new school she quickly establishes herself as both a bit of a klutz and a hunk magnet. But she's not interested in most of the guys, apart from the moodily ha$$$ome, ashen complexioned Edward Cullen. And when he saves her from various threatening situations, their mutual attraction is sealed. There's just one problem: he's a vampire. But although Edward and his undead family are 'vegetarians' who don't feed on humans, his breed find it very difficult to control their overwhelming desire for human blood when their emotions switch from love to lust.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 3 Star)


23:25
Aeon Flux (Film)
Karyn Kusama's sci-fi thriller is set in the 25th century, when, following the outbreak of a killer virus, the remnants of humanity live in the city of Bregna, ruled by Trevor Goodchild. But his draconian rule is threatened by a bunch of rebels led by Handler, who orders Aeon Flux to kill Goodchild. Aeon also has a personal reason to murder him, since he ordered the death of her sister Una. But when she breaks into his inner sanctum, she discovers awful truths about their joint pasts and why the population of the city is so stable and healthy.
Director: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Frances McDormand, Pete Postlethwaite
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 15, 3 Star)


01:10
Che (Film)
Benicio del Toro and Julia Ormond star in Steven Soderbergh's epic two-part biopic of the Argentinian doctor who turned global revolutionary. The first part of Soderbergh's austere representation of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara's contribution to global politics eschews the back story and personal insights that formed the basis of Walter Salles' Motorcycle Diaries and leaps straight to the Cuban revolution. The film kicks off in Mexico in 1955, with Guevara signing up to Fidel Castro's campaign to overthrow Cuba's right-wing Batista regime, and moves swiftly on to painstakingly document the events that occurred after Castro's insurrectionists landed on Cuban soil in 1957, ousting Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and establishing the island as a communist state.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Julia Ormond, Benicio Del Toro, Oscar Isaac, Pablo Guevara, Franklin Diaz, Armando Suarez Cobian
(Repeat, Widescreen, Subtitles, Part 1, Black and White, 2008, 15, 4 Star)