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Film picks: The Bone Collector | Hallam Foe | Flesh + Blood

The Bone Collector 12.25pm & 9pm, Sky Movies Action Thriller (Phillip Noyce, 1999) Odd-couple cops on the trail of a nightmarish serial killer: ho-hum. But Noyce brings a touch of Rear Window wit to the Seven-ish proceedings - detective Denzel Washington is paralysed and leads the investigation from his bed, directing rookie cop Angelina Jolie into those horrible dark places cops must go. Hallam Foe 11.25pm, Film4 (David Mackenzie, 2007) Who's that kid on the roof? It's Jamie Bell's teenager Hallam, grief-stricken at the apparent suicide of his mother and blaming his father Ciaran Hinds' new wife (Claire Forlani) for it. Taking a job at an Edinburgh hotel, he starts spying from the gables on personnel manager Sophie Myles, the spitting image of his mum. A kooky but beguiling blend of disturbed coming-of-age drama and sweet romance. Flesh + Blood 2.15am, Sky Movies Drama (Paul Verhoeven, 1985) There's plenty of flesh and blood in "Robocop" Verhoeven's rough-and-ready American debut feature, an adventure packed with combat, pillage, rape and plague. A young Rutger Hauer leaps about like a meaner Robin Hood, leader of a mercenary band whose kidnap of wealthy young Jennifer Jason Leigh leads to violent retribution. TV pick of the week Television (read more)