They don't make them like Kathleen Turner any more, a knockout damsel who takes no prisoners. In this sequel to Romancing The Stone, Michael Douglas's adventurer chases her to the Middle East to stop her from falling in to the wrong male hands. (1985
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HEROChannel 4, today, 9.05pm
Before director Zhang Yimou's House Of Flying Daggers and Curse Of The Golden Flower came this visually intoxicating look at love and retribution through the warrior tales played out by Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung and Ziyi Zhang. (2002)
BOUNCEBBC1, Wednesday, 11.30pm
Ben Affleck's acting career often involves him missing flights, or taking the wrong ones. Here he swaps his tickets with a man, only for the flight he should have been on to crash. Oh, and for him to track down the widow (Gwyneth Paltrow) of the other passenger and fall in love with her, of course. (2000)
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDESSTV, Saturday, 1.20pm
And Marilyn Monroe shows why as she performs her socks off with Jane Russell in this Howard Hawks musical spectacular. Monroe steals the show with her now much-mimicked version of 'Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend'. (1953)
NOTORIOUSBBC2, Saturday, 3.35pm
Hitchcock teams Cary Grant with Ingrid Bergman and lets you sit back and watch the chemistry sizzle across the screen. Bergman is a woman of some repute, employed by the Americans to root out Nazi activity in Brazil. Attempting to keep things professional is Grant's government agent. (1946)
GRUMPY OLD MENFive, Saturday, 5.20pm
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau are squabbling neighbours whose grudge deepens when they both fall for the same woman. (1993)
2 FAST, 2 FURIOUSSTV, Saturday, 10pm
John Singleton directs this boys and their toys fest, as an ex cop attempts to bring the local drug barons to justice. (2003)
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