CELLULAR (2004)
Sky Movies 2, 8pm; Sky Movies 6, 9pm
Life takes a frantic turn for the surfer-dude hero of Cellular (Chris Evans) after a random call on his mobile phone sucks him in to a desperate, fast- moving kidnap plot. David R. Ellis directs this B-movie nonsense with gusto, while Kim Basinger, William H. Macy and Jason Statham provide solid back-up. (94 min)
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AMERICAN OUTLAWS (2001)
Five, 9pm
Colin Farrell dons his cowboy hat and spurs for yet another reworking of the much-filmed Jesse James legend. History has again been tweaked to suit modern tastes, presenting James (Farrell) as an early anti-corporate warrior seeking revenge against corrupt railroad vandals. Before filming began, Farrell and his co-stars trained for six weeks on a cowboy ranch in 100F (38C) heat. Sadly, the director Les Mayfield then lumbered them with a weak, cliché-ridden script. (94 min)
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THE BEGUILED (1971)
ITV1, midnight
More Freudian melodrama than straight western, Don Siegel’s psychosexual thriller drama is one of Clint Eastwood’s most unusual films. Eastwood plays a Union soldier recuperating from his Civil War injuries at an all-girl boarding school. But when the soldier’s young companions become his jailers and tormentors, Siegel cranks up the eerie erotic tension with crooked camera angles and stream-of-consciousness voiceovers. (105 min)
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FREEWAY (1996)
Channel 4, 12.10am
Soon to wow British audiences in Walk the Line, Reese Witherspoon gives a powerhouse performance as a sexually manipulative runaway in a darkly funny trailer-trash update of Red Riding Hood. Fleeing her prostitute mother and crack-addict stepfather, Witherspoon’s teenage vamp guns down Kiefer Sutherland’s smooth-talking sex killer, only to be vilified by a prurient media and cynical legal system. (110 min)