Movies

Sunday 4 February: 21.00–23.05

Actor Peter Berg (‘The Last Seduction’, ‘Collateral’) directs this action adventure story. Prowrestler turned actor the Rock stars as a bounty hunter who, indebted to a mob boss, agrees to search for the gangster’s errant son (Seann William Scott, ‘American Pie’). His task takes him to the Amazon jungle where the son is dabbling in archaeology and, having found his quarry, the pair join forces to locate a priceless gold idol treasured by the local population. However, a ruthlessly exploitative mining boss (Christopher Walken) is also intent on finding the prized artifact.

Also starring Rosario Dawson (‘Sin City’).

Sunday 4 February: 19.00–21.00

Madcap sequel in which the portly professor Klump’s wedding plans are scuppered by his manic alter-ego. With the help of his fiancée’s cutting-edge DNA research, he decides to fight back and rid himself of his nemesis for good but things do not go quite the way he planned. Eddie Murphy returns in multiple roles, with Janet Jackson starring as his fiancée.

Sunday 4 February: 17.00–18.50

Family comedy in which two men (Eddie Murphy and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ star Jeff Garlin) are made redundant and have to become stay-athome dads when they cannot find jobs. This inspires them to open their own day-care centre where they employ some unconventional methods to look after the children…

Also starring Steve Zahn (‘Out of Sight’) and Anjelica Huston.

Sunday 4 February: 15.10–17.00

Family comedy about a young boy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas, ‘Home Improvement’) who tries every trick in the book to prevent his mother (Farrah Fawcett) from marrying her new fiancé (Chevy Chase). Deeply hurt by his father’s desertion of the family years before, the lad has always been reluctant to accept his mother’s boyfriends and when her latest man moves into the family home, the boy must pool all his resources to sabotage their relationship.

Sunday 4 February: 13.45–15.10

Four convicts, just released from prison, set off to find the loot they stashed before they were put inside. But their plans backfire when they are caught in the middle of a fierce Apache attack.

Saturday 3 February: 23.10–00.55

Explosive thriller in which a Miami lawyer (modelactress Cindy Crawford) is forced to go on the run with her police guard (William Baldwin) when she becomes the target of a criminal mastermind and a KGB hit squad. Having discovered a ship which is the key to a major operation planned by an international fiend, her life is in danger and a cop is assigned to guard her. But the bad guys are never far behind…

Saturday 3 February: 18.10–20.05

Drama about a petty con man’s attempts to raise two daughters on his own while dabbling in some shady deals. The widower (Harvey Keitel) finds himself up to his neck in trouble with a thuggish investor, while one of his daughters (Fairuza Balk, ‘The Craft’) is developing a crush on her new English teacher (‘Law and Order: Criminal Intent’ star Vincent D’Onofrio).

Also starring Chris Penn (‘Reservoir Dogs’).

Saturday 3 February: 16.20–18.10

Disney adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel about the adventures of an 18th-century Scottish orphan. Unaware of his inheritance, young David Balfour is almost sold into slavery by his conniving uncle. Kidnapped and en route to his doom aboard the ship of a scurrilous sea dog, he survives a shipwreck and joins forces with a Jacobite rebel heading for France.

Saturday 3 February: 13.40–16.20

A modern, musical version of the Cinderella tale, in which a young servant girl wins the heart of the handsome yet unhappy Prince Edward. Featuring Academy Award-nominated songs by Richard and Robert Sherman.

Saturday 3 February: 11.40–13.40

Satirical fable based on George Bernard Shaw’s play. An animal-loving Christian removes a thorn from the paw of a lion, only to encounter the beast later in the arena to which he has been sent by the Romans. Will the man’s earlier kindness spare him a grisly fate? This was Hollywood’s first screen adaptation of a Shaw play.