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Making Tracks (TV3, 4.00, R) Nick Dwyer heads to Ghana to hear what Holly Smith and Don McGalshan’s beautiful ballad Bathe in the River sounds like in the hands of a musician from this West African nation. Rules of Engagement (TV3, 4.30) Jeff has an ulterior motive for taking an interest in Audrey’s favourite reality […]

Bridget Jones’s Diary: TV3, 8.30pm Saturday. Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is in her early 30s and fed up with being single when she seduces her smooth publishing boss (Hugh Grant), only to discover her silver-tongue soulmate is a soulless womaniser while her real Mr Right (Colin Firth) is the haughty, tactless boy-next-door from childhood whom […]

Edward Scissorhands: Sky Movies Greats, 8.30pm Saturday. Frequently disarming and fanciful fable, a kind of Frankenstein’s Monster Meets the Avon Lady. In his first collaboration with director Tim Burton, Johnny Depp plays, with wondrous sensitivity, the creation of a benevolent inventor who gives him shears for digits. Is it any wonder that an Avon Lady’s […]

Bride Wars: TV3, 8.30pm Saturday. Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson star as best friends whose meticulous wedding plans crash when a clerical error leads to each getting married on the same day. Critics scarcely celebrated: “A shrill, mechanical comedy” (Variety); “has possibly the worst comedy idea since Springtime for Hitler, with almost no room for […]

Sunshine: TV3, 10.25pm Saturday. Only sci-fi diehards will enjoy this trip to the malarkey side of the sun (it has to be re-ignited with a nuclear payload). Duller than a cloudy day, it stars Cliff Curtis, Damages’ Rose Byrne, Inception’s Cillian Murphy and Kick-Ass’ Mark Strong. Slumdog Millionaire’s Danny Boyle directs another screenplay by his […]