24-30 SEPTEMBER 2022

This is another good week for films that are new to network TV. 
THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO (2019) Sunday 25 September 10.00-11.55pm BBC 2    P   
Achieving a happy balance between reality and one’s right to dream, this was an impressive debut from director Joe Talbot
RAMS (2020) Tuesday 27 September 9.00-11.20pm Film 4    P 
Well I never – an Australian (!) remake of the 2015 Icelandic comedy that members rated at 72.72%. A Sam Neill performance is always worth catching.
HARRIET (2019) Wednesday 28 September 10.40pm-1.20am BBC 1    P 
Another film, worthy of consideration, that didn’t quite make one of our final programmes. Cynthia Erivo is very good as Harriet Tubman who, having escaped slavery herself, then helped others to do the same. 
HOUSE OF THE GORGON (2019) Friday 30 September 10.40pm-12.20am TP (Ch 82)    P 
Alas, we must not expect it to be a good film, but the idea intrigues – evil is at work and three Hammer leading ladies (Veronica Carlson, Caroline Munro and Martine Beswick) are on hand to witness it. The sort of retrospective casting that Burt Kennedy used in Once Upon a Texas Train and which can be pleasurable and nostalgic at the same time.