TV FILMS of the week
1 Rosemary’s Baby saturday, GREAT! movies, 11.05pm
Controversial director Roman
Polanski’s horror movie focuses on
Rosemary (Mia Farrow, right), a seemingly happily married young woman who moves into a New York apartment with her actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes). He strikes up a friendship with the elderly couple next door (Sidney Blackmer and the Oscarwinning Ruth Gordon), but when Rosemary becomes pregnant, she increasingly fears that their new neighbours have a sinister agenda. Rosemary’s Baby is still a chilling, atmospheric classic.
2 Bill sunday, BBC1, 2.10pm
William Shakespeare (Mathew Baynton, left) is a self-doubting dreamer, who heads to London. He befriends Christopher Marlowe (Jim Howick) and they join forces on a play, which they intend to sell to The Earl of Croydon who has promised Queen Elizabeth I a new production. Bill is a silly romp from the creators of Horrible Histories, laden with smut and the occasional documented fact.
3 DOG soldiers monday, Film4, 11.10pm
This werewolf horror flick splices gore and lashings of blood, with a sick and twisted sense of humour. A squad of British Army officers, led by Sergeant Wells (Sean Pertwee, pictured), takes part in a military exercise. They stumble on a pile of human remains and an injured comrade who appears to have been attacked by an animal. Wells and his men soon find themselves under attack.
4 Role models Tuesday, ITV4, 10.50pm
Irresponsible energy drink salesmen Danny (Paul Rudd, left) and Wheeler (Seann William Scott), land in trouble after crashing the company truck. Hoping to avoid jail time, they agree to undertake community service, acting as mentors to two troubled youngsters. The gags are sharp, the leads are perfectly cast, and Jane Lynch nearly steals the film as a youth counsellor.
5 american made Wednesday, Film4, 9pm
Pilot Barry Seal (Tom Cruise, left) makes money on the side by smuggling Cuban cigars into America. He is rumbled by Monty Schafer (Domhnall Gleeson), who coerces Barry into working for the US government by flying over Central America to take photographs of the communist threat. Barry meets members of a cocaine cartel, who employ him to transport narcotics back to America.
6 eye in The sky Thursday, Film4, 7pm
A powerful look at the moral implications of modern warfare, with Helen Mirren, pictured, as a British Army colonel leading a team trying to decide whether to launch a drone strike on terrorists – knowing it could kill innocent people. Also starring Alan Rickman, this is an intelligent thriller that asks if there is such a thing as acceptable collateral damage.
7 10 Things i hate about you Friday, GREAT! movies, 7.05pm
Julia Stiles, pictured, and Heath Ledger head the cast of this sharp, quotable teen romcom. Stiles stars as Katherine, whose reluctance to fit in is a great inconvenience for her younger sister Bianca (Larisa Oleynik). At school, new boy Cameron (Joseph Gordon-levitt) hatches a plan to pair Katherine with the school’s bad boy (Ledger) so that he can concentrate on wooing Bianca.