SATURDAY

DANCES WITH WOLVES

Channel 5, 10.30pm

Kevin Costner’s career reached its peak with this outstanding, multi-Oscar-winning Western – and since then it’s been downhill pretty much all the way, with only a couple of decent films in between thanks to outings such as The Postman. Here he plays disillusioned Cavalry officer John Dunbar who slowly learns to love life again thanks to his friendship with a Sioux tribe. It’s top-class entertainment which shouldn’t be missed and features a beautiful soundtrack written by the peerless John Barry. Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene and Rodney A Grant also star in a film whose writer, Michael Blake, had been trying to get the film made since the mid-1980s and turned the screenplay into a novel before Costner snapped up the chance to direct it.