Film choice

The Towering Inferno (1974) FILM4, 3.15PM

When this disaster movie starring Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway opened in cinemas, the storyline – about a San Francisco skyscraper being consumed by fire – thrilled mid-Seventies audiences. Subsequent real life events, however, and those pictures of fireballs engulfing the Twin Towers, make this fictional plot more chilling than thrilling. Braveheart (1995) FILM4, 9.00PM

Mel Gibson sports his woad, sporran and – bravest of all – one of the oddest accents committed to film to play William Wallace in this gory Highland epic. It’s great fun, yet perhaps undeserving of its Best Picture Oscar (it also won another four). Sophie Marceau cranks up the historical inaccuracy as a French love interest –in reality her character was six years old. The Last Boy Scout (1991) TCM, 11.35PM

Tony Scott directed this stylish yet clichéd thriller which brings action man Bruce Willis together with comic actor Damon Wayans. Willis stars as down-and-out private detective Joe Hallenbeck, whose client Cory (Halle Berry), a stripper, is killed. This leads Joe to team up with Cory’s faltering gridiron star boyfriend (Wayans) to find the murderer.