It will not have escaped your notice that the 1996 Cathay Pacific HongkongBank Sevens are taking place. World is showing live action today (2pm) and tomorrow from 4pm.
For those who can't tell a rugby ball from a beach ball entertainment comes in the form of a young Mel Gibson in The Year of Living Dangerously (World, 12.30am), in which he plays an Australian journalist on his first foreign assignment, in Indonesia.
The film falters slightly in its attempt to be thriller, romance, political tract and to encompass director Peter Weir's penchant for mysticism all at the same time. But it's ambitious, stylish and for the most part gripping. For Gibson and young co-star Sigourney Weaver this was the beginning of the beginning.
The Year of Living Dangerously was a film of gambles for Weir. His most outrageous risk was to cast the diminutive, gravel-voiced Linda Hunt as a man, Billy Kwan, a Chinese-Australian photographer who shows Gibson the ropes when he steps off the plane in Jakarta. Hunt won a best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination.
Whatever its faults (Weir's use of Indonesian puppetry is only partly successful) this film is that rare thing; a contemporary movie that embraces a political issue and aims itself at an audience older than the world's average shoe size.
Take Beetlejuice (Pearl, 9.30pm), which will scare children and bore adults. Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin are a couple of newly-deads who decide they do not want to give up their temporal home. Michael Keaton is the 'freelance bio-exorcist' of the title.
Youngblood (Pearl, 12.15pm) details the romances of a young ice hockey star (Rob Lowe), for those who are interested.