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Away from Her 11.10am, Sky Movies Indie (Sarah Polley, 2007) Polley's touching, thought-provoking drama stars Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent as an ageing couple coming to terms with her Alzheimer's. Installed in a geriatric home, her relationship with another patient (Michael Murphy) raises questions about the nature of memory in a hugely impressive film, adapted from an Alice Munro story. Elizabeth: The Golden Age 2pm & 8pm, Sky Movies Drama (Shekhar Kapur, 2007) This sequel moves swiftly on, 30 years from the events of the original, with Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth very much the imperious virgin queen, protecting her country from the Papish armada. It plays fast and loose with the history, and borders on romcom in her dalliance with dashing Raleigh (Clive Owen), but still makes for a majestic and compelling costume drama. Time Bandits 4.40pm, Film4 (Terry Gilliam, 1981) A riotous comic fantasy from the Monty Python team: director Gilliam wrote it, with Michael Palin, who also appears, along with John Cleese. Craig Warnock plays the lad whose wildest daydreams come true when David Rappaport and his gang of renegade time-travelling dwarfs whisk him off to history's hot-spots, from ancient Greece to Napoleonic Europe; it's a dizzying adventure that holds that inner child spellbound. (read more)