Tuesday, 6 November 2012

SATURDAY 10TH NOVEMBER - FRIDAY 16TH NOVEMBER

SATURDAY 10TH NOVEMBER

2.45-5.20pm - ITV1 - STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI
Science-fiction epic adventure that completed the first Star Wars trilogy of films, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher. A new indestructible "Death Star" is being built by the wicked Darth Vader. Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker launches a rescue mission to free mercenary space pilot Han Solo who is being held captive by the abhorrent Jabba.
11.00pm-12.55am - ITV1 - THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT
Action thriller sequel starring Lucas Black. To avoid jail for illegal street racing, a bad-boy teenager is sent to Japan to stay with his estranged father. However, his discovery of drifting, a new style of racing reliant on the use of the handbrake, soon gets him into more trouble.
11.15pm-1.30am - C4 - THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY
Romantic comedy starring Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon and Ben Stiller. Although still mortified by a disastrous prom date with the beautiful Mary Jenson years earlier, Ted Stroehmann still harbours feelings for his teenage sweetheart, so he sends private investigator Pat Healy to Miami to track her down. But is Pat's information about his findings reliable?

SUNDAY 11TH NOVEMBER

9.00-11.25pm - C5 - VALKYRIE
Second World War drama based on a true story, starring Tom Cruise. As Germany continues to fight a seemingly unwinnable war, dissent begins to grow against Hitler among his senior politicians and high-ranking military officers. It falls to decorated hero Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to lead a plot to kill the Führer and seize control of Berlin.

MONDAY 12TH NOVEMBER

9.00-11.15pm - C5 - HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER
Western starring Clint Eastwood. A mysterious and laconic stranger rides into the small American frontier town of Lago, and within minutes kills three men who provoke him. Terrified of the gunman, yet even more afraid of a gang who intend to wipe out the town, the townspeople beg the stranger to become sheriff, little realising that this is just the start of their descent into "Hell".
11.05pm-1.15am - ITV1 - TRAINING DAY
Police drama starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. Idealistic rookie cop Jake Hoyt is given the opportunity of trying out with an elite Los Angeles undercover narcotics squad. Hoyt joins Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris for a day working the streets, but quickly realises that his superior's approach to law enforcement is not strictly by the book.

TUESDAY 13TH NOVEMBER

NO PICKS FOR TODAY

WEDNESDAY 14TH NOVEMBER

9.00-11.45pm - C5 - ERIN BROKOVICH
Oscar-winning biographical drama starring Julia Roberts. When she loses a lawsuit following a car accident, unemployed single mother Erin Brockovich browbeats her lawyer, Ed Masry, into giving her a job. Soon she discovers that a power company has been dumping toxic waste and poisoning the residents of a small town. Masry's firm takes up the case - making Brockovich the unlikely linchpin in one of corporate America's biggest ever lawsuits.

THURSDAY 15TH NOVEMBER

11.10am-1.00pm  - MORE4 - THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Classic science-fiction drama starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal. A mysterious spaceship from an unknown planet approaches Earth carrying an intelligent humanoid called Klaatu and a giant robot. They have come to warn the world that it will have no future if it persists with nuclear testing. After landing in Washington, the robot is left to guard the ship while Klaatu mingles with the population to learn about human nature.
11.30pm-1.55am - ITV2 - KISS KISS BANG BANG
Action comedy thriller starring Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr. New York petty thief Harry Lockhart runs from the cops into a movie audition and is mistaken for an actor. Sent to Los Angeles to play a private detective in a movie, Lockhart is assigned to real-life PI and part-time acting adviser Perry Van Shrike to research the role and soon discovers that the line between fact and fiction is easily blurred.

FRIDAY 16TH NOVEMBER

9.00-11.00pm - ITV4 - ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
Futuristic action thriller from John Carpenter, starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef and Donald Pleasence. The year is 1997 and the island of Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison. When the US president's plane crashes into this lawless hell, new convict Snake Plissken is called in to help.
3.00-4.45am (saturday morning) - ITV1 - ENTER THE DRAGON
Classic martial arts adventure starring Bruce Lee. A master of martial arts is enlisted by British intelligence to help put an end to the traffic in opium and prostitutes organised from an island fortress by a criminal mastermind.


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