The Secret Life of Bees
ITV4, 9pm
Kevin Bacon stars in this 1990 comedy-horror flick about a small town in America that’s under attack from creepy creatures living below ground. The low-budget movie’s returns at the box office were no great shakes but after tripling its profit in the home video market the film became something of a cult classic, spawning three sequels and a spin-off television series.
ITV4, 9pm
The film that gave us the phrase: “Go ahead, make my day”. This was the movie that saw Clint Eastwood move away from the spaghetti westerns that had made his name, swapping the wide open spaces for the mean streets of San Francisco. Inspector Harry Callahan finds himself up against a psychopath calling himself the Scorpio Killer. Dirty Harry is prepared to do anything to get his man.
ITV4, 9pm
The film that introduced 007 to the world and set up all that would follow. James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to Jamaica to look into the death of a British operative. The super-spy manages to avert his gaze from Ursula Andress long enough to uncover a plot to hold America to ransom. Bond may be rougher and tougher these days, but this is still classic 007.
More4, 9pm
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis star in James Cameron’s action comedy, a remake of French film La Totale! (but with a bigger budget). Helen Tasker feels her 15-year marriage to salesman Harry has become mundane. What she doesn’t know is that he’s actually a fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent – and she’s about to get caught up in his undercover world.
ITV1, 4.30pm
An approaching storm leaves an oddball family trapped in a Kansas farmhouse. They include a retired soda pop tycoon who is dating a children’s TV evangelist, his layabout daughter and her precocious 8-yearold daughter, his would-be artist son and the son’s fiancee. The usually great Harry Dean Stanton stars in a comedy you’ll be glad you didn’t pay to see.
Film4, 6.55pm
Sickly-sweet drama set against the backdrop of the civil rights struggle in America’s Deep South in the early ’60s. Dakota Fanning plays a 14-yearold girl trying to escape her abusive father and find some relief from the haunting memories of her mother’s death. She finds safe haven with three sisters who keep bees.
The Incredible Hulk
ITV2, 7.45pm
Following an uninspiring version starring Eric Bana, Edward Norton took over the role of Bruce Banner for a second attempt at adapting Marvel’s angry green giant into a movie. The basis of the story remains the same but there’s a twist in this tale as he has to do battle with a genetically-modified equivalent of himself created by the US military. Liv Tyler also stars.
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
ITV1, 8.30pm
Ten years after the Phantom Menace threatened the planet Naboo, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is enlisted to protect Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman), a young Senator representing her homeworld. He fears the Jedi code will forbid their developing romance.