Film choice

Mars Attacks! (1996) TCM Movies, 6.50pm ★★★★

It isn’t Tim Burton’s finest film by a long shot, but this zany sci-fi comedy is plenty of fun. A glitzy cast (which includes Jack Nicholson as the US President) put on their best (and campest) performances as they fight some Martians who want to destroy things and generally have a good time. It’s a bizarre spectacle: Nicholson gets zapped by what looks like a gun made from glued together tomatoes.

One Hour Photo (2002) Great! Movies, 9pm ★★★

This was a period of his career when Robin Williams chose to darken his image radically, here playing a lonely stalker in this tense, unsettling drama from Mark Romanek. While working at a shop’s photo processing lab (yes, that does date it) Williams’s sad, friendless middle-aged man becomes obsessed with the enviable lifestyle of a family that appear in a series of the shots that he develops.

The Caine Mutiny (1954) Great! Movies Classic, 9pm ★★★★

In his last great role, Humphrey Bogart stars in Edward Dmytryk’s war drama based upon Herman Wouk’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Bogart is Captain Queeg, who faces a court martial after he panics when his US Navy destroyer runs out of control during a storm. It managed to pick up an impressive seven Oscar nominations, and was the year’s highest-grossing film.