Film choice

My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)

SONY MOVIE CHANNEL, 4.35PM ★★

 Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz, Dermot Mulroney and Rupert Everett star in this slushy romcom. Roberts plays Julianne, who falls in love with her old friend (Mulroney), only to discover that he’s due to marry another girl (Diaz) the next day. Everett isn’t one of the love interests – he plays Roberts’s gay best friend – but he manages to elope with the film.

Fatima (2015)

SKY CINEMA PREMIERE, 10.00PM ★★★★

 French director Philippe Faucon had success at the Cannes Film Festival with this insightful study of female behaviour. Fatima (Soria Zeroual) is a 44-year-old Moroccan woman raising two teenage girls in Lyon. The youngest, Souad (Kenzanoah Aïche), is a sullen, sexy rebel ashamed of her mother for working as a housecleaner. It’s a little slow in parts but, like its heroine, that’s all part of the film’s quiet dignity.

The Blair Witch Project (1998)

SKY ONE, 11.00PM ★★★★

 An inventive horror whose frights are all created via suspense and the power of suggestion. Made on a meagre budget of around $750,000 (it grossed around $250million at the box office), it purports to be the footage left behind by three American film students who enter a forest to investigate the legendary “Blair Witch”. Some moviegoers were physically ill due to the shaky camerawork.