TV FILMS OF THE WEEK

YOU’VE GOT MAIL Sunday, Channel 5, 3.35pm

It’s 1998 and people are still excited by emails, delivered via a dial-up internet connection. The always watchable Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan star in Nora Ephron’s romcom about a couple having an online relationship who don’t realise they are real-life business rivals.

THE ELEPHANT MAN Sunday, BBC1, 10.30pm

Directed by David Lynch at the start of his career, this moving drama is unlike anything else he has ever made. John Hurt is magnificent as the physically disfigured Joseph Merrick, treated as a freak by Victorian society. Anthony Hopkins is the kindly surgeon who befriends him.

3:10 TO YUMA Monday, Sony Movies, 9pm

Thrilling remake of a 1957 western. Outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) has been captured and down-on-hisluck rancher Dan Evans (Christian Bale) is being paid to get him to the

3.10 train to Yuma prison. Wade’s gang has other ideas.

NOTORIOUS Tuesday, Talking Pictures TV, 7pm

Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite actor and one of his favourite actresses star in this romantic thriller regarded as one of his best films. Cary Grant is an FBI agent in pursuit of Nazis hiding out in Brazil after the war. He recruits the daughter of a Nazi spy – Ingrid Bergman – to help.

MINUSCULE Wednesday, Sky Cinema Premiere, 8.15am

When a young ladybird is accidentally sealed in a case of chestnut purée (yes, this is a French film) headed for Guadeloupe, his insect friends and relatives have to rescue him. There’s no dialogue in this charming, animated children’s movie.

LINCOLN Thursday, Film4, 9pm

Steven Spielberg’s biopic focuses on Lincoln in the last few months of the American Civil War – and, as it would turn out, his own life – when he was fighting a political battle to outlaw slavery. Daniel Day-Lewis won his third Best Actor Oscar for his performance as the

United States’s greatest president.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Friday, Sky Cinema Premiere,9pm

Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt (left) have a whale of a time as fading TV star Rick Dalton and his friend and stunt double Cliff Booth in Quentin Tarantino’s exuberant and nostalgic homage to Hollywood at the end of the 1960s and, as always, to the films he loves – including his own.

THE FULL MONTY Friday, BBC1, 10.45pm

When a Sheffield steel mill closes, a group of workers decides to try to make money by putting on a striptease show, during which they will go ‘the full monty’ – because, as the trailer said, ‘When you’ve got nothing to lose, you’ve got nothing to hide’. Robert Carlyle stars.