ARMAGEDDON (1998)
BBC One, 9pm
Hugely enjoyable for all the wrong reasons, Michael Bay’s overcooked action blockbuster is a junk-food feast of unwittingly hilarious dialogue and homoerotic machismo. Bruce Willis stars as the square-jawed leader of an oil drilling team blasted into space to blow up a giant meteor and save mankind. Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Billy Bob Thornton and Steve Buscemi share the blame and the shame. Groaningly awful but highly recommended. (144min)
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FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE (1978)
Channel 4, 11pm
Harrison Ford took his first post-Star Wars role in Guy Hamilton’s sequel to the classic 1961 war thriller The Guns of Navarone. Ford plays one of a sabotage team on a suicide mission behind enemy lines. Although overshadowed by its predecessor, Hamilton’s middling effort boasts fine action set-pieces and a superior cast including Robert Shaw, Edward Fox and Barbara Bach. (118min)
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AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997)
Film4, 9pm
This schmaltzy romantic comedy about lonely Manhattan eccentrics from James L. Brooks stars Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive misanthrope who eventually finds redemption through his love for Helen Hunt’s waitress. In other words feelgood slush, but Nicholson coasting is better than most stars on top form. (139min)
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TALK TO HER (2002)
Film4, 11.35pm
Pedro Almodóvar’s offbeat but engrossing tale of love and loss set in a hospital coma ward. A male nurse, Benigno (Javier Cámara), and a travel writer, Marco (Darío Grandinetti), are united in grief as they tend to their loved ones, a ballet student, Alicia (Leonor Watling), and a bullfighter, Lydia (Rosario Flores). Gradually, the two men develop a tender emotional connection with the two women and each other. (112min)