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Film picks: Michael Clayton | The Beat That My Heart Skipped |

Michael Clayton 8pm, Sky Movies Drama (Tony Gilroy, 2007) George Clooney is Michael Clayton, a corporate fixer who patches up his law firm's awkward little problems; but an Erin Brockovich-type case involving poisonous pesticides induces an attack of conscience. It all works out a little too neatly, but with its sophisticated script, polished production values, the immaculate Clooney and ice-queen Tilda Swinton, it oozes class. The Beat That My Heart Skipped 10pm, BBC4 (Jacques Audiard, 2005) A mesmeric performance by Romain Duris is the beating heart of this compelling character study-cum-crime thriller. It's a reworking of James Toback's 70s cult movie Fingers, with Duris in the Harvey Keitel role as a young man torn between following Dad into thuggish property shenanigans and pursuing a career as a pianist, as his late mother wanted. Moodily shot by Stéphane Fontaine. The Principles of Lust 12.50am, Film4 (Penny Woolcock, 2003) Writer/director Woolcock's feature debut has jobless would-be-writer Alec Newman deciding whether to settle down with lovely working mum Sienna Guillory, or head off with charismatic Marc Warren into a life of gambling, drugs, backstreet fighting and sex orgies. Billed as a British Fight Club, it lacks the subversive edge and morbid humourof Fincher's film: intriguing, but unsatisfying. TV pick of the week Television (read more)