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11:30 AM Turner Classic Movies
Zarak (1956 GB): Victor Mature plays the title character in this set in Afghanistan but shot in Burma adventure. Zarak is an Afghani tribesman given a choice: either be flogged to death or expelled from his village for the crime of kissing the wrong woman (Anita Ekberg). He takes up a life of crime and the British Army decides his reign of banditry must come to an end, dispatching Major Ingram (Michael Wilding) to sort things out. Ingram ends up getting into a spot of trouble — a spot only Zarak can rescue him from. Though Mature is (as usual) pretty bad, this is an interesting early example of work by the team that would later bring us Dr. No. — director Terence Young, screenwriter Richard Maibaum, and producer Albert Broccoli. A superb supporting cast, including Eric Pohlmann, Bonar Colleano, Finlay Currie, Patrick McGoohan, and Andre Morell helps matters, too.

6:00 PM HBO
Hot Coffee (2011 USA): Mmm, torte reform. I would love to eat some torte right now, hot or cold. What’s that? This is an HBO original documentary about tort reform? Specifically about the infamous McDonald's coffee case, in which a woman named Stella Liebeck scalded herself with a hot drink and sued the bright yellow pants off Ronald McDonald? Well, the film might be good, but it won’t be very tasty. Also airs at 9:00 PM.

11:00 PM Sundance
Summer Holiday (2008 ROM): A Romanian man spends a night on the tiles in this solid, if far from ground-breaking, drama from director Radu Muntean. Dragos Bucur, the tormented cop in last year’s Police, Adjective, plays Bogdan (Boogie) Ciocazanu, a 20-something trying to settle down as a family man after a misspent youth. Unfortunately, whilst on holiday with the trouble and strife, Boogie meets some of his old hell-raising pals and spends an evening drinking, drugging, and womanizing, much to wifey’s chagrin. It’s the old Peter Pan Syndrome story updated to modern-day mitteleuropa, but well-acted and beautifully shot.

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