Films on the small screen: 18-24 NOV 2006

Saturday 18
The French Connection (BBC1 11:45pm) - Gene Hackman stars in his oscar winning role as as wild-card NYC cop 'Popeye' Doyle, where him and his partner in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

Sunday 19
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (C4 20:00) - Two Words.....Bloody Fantastic!
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (BBC1 11:45pm) - Comedy starring Chevy Chase and Sam Neil. Hijinks, curious accidents and invisibility, one can only imagine where they'd take this...

Monday 20
Raising Arizona (BBC1 11:45pm) - Nic Cage* and Holly Hunter star as a childless couple, one an ex-con and the other and ex-cop, who decide to kidnap one of a set of famous Arizona quintuplets. A Choen Brothers comedy with a delicious mix of surrealism and sentimentality.

Tuesday 21
Jerry Maguire (C4 22:00) - Tom Crusie stars as sports agent Jerry Maguire in this unusual romantic comedy drama. An infectiously warm, witty and tear-jerking film. Look out for a fantastic and funny Oscar-winning turn by Cuba Gooding Jr, and a pre-Bridget Jones Renee Zellweger.

Wednesday 22
Snake Eyes (Five 21:00) When the US Secretary of Defence is assassinated in full view of a huge audience gathered in a casino for a boxing championship, its up to detective Nic Cage to find out who pulled that trigger and unravel an ever-widening conspiracy. A dissapointing thriller, but something to watch when there's nothing else on.
Pleasantville (BBC1 11:35pm) - Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon play sparring siblings who, while fighting over the TV remote control, get zapped inside "Pleasantville", black and white 1950s re-run show. A must see witty and affectionate comedy.

Friday 24
I Spy (Five 20:00) Murphy and Wilson...entertaining comedy or just shambolic? Good for a few cheap laughs but no real depth.
From Hell (Five 22:00) - Johnny Depp, complete with British accent, looks into the Jack the Ripper case. Period Horror Flick starring Robbie Coltrane and Heather Graham.
Honeymoon in Vegas (BBC1 11:35) - Comedy starring Nic Cage*, Sarah Jessica Parker and James Cann




*3 movies with Nic Cage on this week...i know he's a fab actor but whats with the obsession? Next week it'll probably be Con Air amonst other things