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Film picks: Mulholland Drive | Superbad | The Untouchables

Mulholland Drive 10pm, Sky Movies Indie (David Lynch, 2001) Even by Lynch's bizarre standards, this is a puzzler. Loosely, it's a modern, Hollywood-set film noir centred on the relationship between an amnesiac starlet (Laura Elena Harring) and a fresh-faced kid just arrived from the sticks (Naomi Watts). Amid the tangled narrative strands and identity switches, it's an atmospheric, multi-layered tale of modern American corruption. Superbad 12.35pm & 8pm, Sky Movies Comedy (Greg Mottola, 2007) Produced by Knocked Up team Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen, this lacks the surprisingly mature observations of that scabrously humorous film. It's another tale of nerdy young men who are gagging for it - in this case Jonah Hill, Michael Cera and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, hoping to become some high-school girl's drunken mistake at the leaving party - and it's hugely, grossly, funny. The Untouchables 9pm, Film4 (Brian De Palma, 1987) De Palma's big- screen homage to the 1950s TV crime series is done in brilliant style, and sharply scripted by David Mamet. Kevin Costner makes his name as the upright fed Eliot Ness, pulling together a team of incorruptibles (Sean Connery, Andy Garcia, Charles Martin-Smith) to nail Robert De Niro's ferocious Al Capone in crime-racked 1930s Chicago. TV pick of the week Television guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (read more)