TV best bets: Sat., March 26
The Manchurian Candidate — Denzel Washington stars in director Jonathan Demme's 2004 updating of the 1962 suspense classic. He plays Ben Marco, a Gulf War veteran who starts to question whether a fellow soldier's act of heroism really took place. That soldier (Liev Schreiber) is up for vice president of the United States, and Marco suspects he and his buddies were brainwashed to believe the incident happened. Meryl Streep also stars.
8 p.m., CINEMAX: Saturday Night Fever — Tony Manero (John Travolta) spends his days working in a paint store, but he lives for his nights in a Brooklyn disco where he's the king of the dance floor. He ends up getting big life lessons from his sophisticate-wannabe partner (Karen Lynn Gorney) in a contest, and also from his reckless buddies, in director John Badham's iconic 1977 drama.
8 p.m., HBO: Just Wright — Romantic comedy about an unrequited love that might turn out all right. Queen Latifah plays a physical therapist whose professional help is needed by a basketball star (Common), for whom she has feelings — but he only has eyes for her closest friend (Paula Patton).
9 p.m., STARZ: Chloe — Director Atom Egoyan assembles a solid cast in this drama about a doctor (Julianne Moore) who decides to put her professor husband (Liam Neeson) to the fidelity test. Sure that he's cheating on her, she enlists a professional escort (Amanda Seyfried) to prove whether he actually has cheating on his mind. Nina Dobrev co-stars.
10:15 p.m., TNT: The Brave One — Jodie Foster goes the "Death Wish" route in director Neil Jordan's ("The Crying Game") intense drama about a woman who turns vigilante after an act of violence. The actress plays a New York talk show host mugged in an assault that leaves her fiancé (Naveen Andrews, "Lost") dead. After emerging from a coma, she buys a firearm and becomes a media sensation by secretly luring criminals and settling scores.
11 p.m., USA: Dawn of the Dead — Zombies in a shopping mall — sounds like a five-word indictment of our advertising-addled consumer culture. It's also the setting of this 2004 remake of George Romero's 1979 horror classic, one of the better entries in the zombie subgenre. Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber and Mekhi Phifer lead the cast as survivors of a zombie-producing plague who take refuge in a mall against the encroaching, hungry army of undead outside.
8 p.m., AMC: The Manchurian Candidate — Denzel Washington stars in director Jonathan Demme's 2004 updating of the 1962 suspense classic. He plays Ben Marco, a Gulf War veteran who starts to question whether a fellow soldier's act of heroism really took place. That soldier (Liev Schreiber) is up for vice president of the United States, and Marco suspects he and his buddies were brainwashed to believe the incident happened. Meryl Streep also stars.
8 p.m., CINEMAX: Saturday Night Fever — Tony Manero (John Travolta) spends his days working in a paint store, but he lives for his nights in a Brooklyn disco where he's the king of the dance floor. He ends up getting big life lessons from his sophisticate-wannabe partner (Karen Lynn Gorney) in a contest, and also from his reckless buddies, in director John Badham's iconic 1977 drama.
8 p.m., HBO: Just Wright — Romantic comedy about an unrequited love that might turn out all right. Queen Latifah plays a physical therapist whose professional help is needed by a basketball star (Common), for whom she has feelings — but he only has eyes for her closest friend (Paula Patton).
9 p.m., STARZ: Chloe — Director Atom Egoyan assembles a solid cast in this drama about a doctor (Julianne Moore) who decides to put her professor husband (Liam Neeson) to the fidelity test. Sure that he's cheating on her, she enlists a professional escort (Amanda Seyfried) to prove whether he actually has cheating on his mind. Nina Dobrev co-stars.
10:15 p.m., TNT: The Brave One — Jodie Foster goes the "Death Wish" route in director Neil Jordan's ("The Crying Game") intense drama about a woman who turns vigilante after an act of violence. The actress plays a New York talk show host mugged in an assault that leaves her fiancé (Naveen Andrews, "Lost") dead. After emerging from a coma, she buys a firearm and becomes a media sensation by secretly luring criminals and settling scores.
11 p.m., USA: Dawn of the Dead — Zombies in a shopping mall — sounds like a five-word indictment of our advertising-addled consumer culture. It's also the setting of this 2004 remake of George Romero's 1979 horror classic, one of the better entries in the zombie subgenre. Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber and Mekhi Phifer lead the cast as survivors of a zombie-producing plague who take refuge in a mall against the encroaching, hungry army of undead outside.
8 p.m., CINEMAX: Saturday Night Fever — Tony Manero (John Travolta) spends his days working in a paint store, but he lives for his nights in a Brooklyn disco where he's the king of the dance floor. He ends up getting big life lessons from his sophisticate-wannabe partner (Karen Lynn Gorney) in a contest, and also from his reckless buddies, in director John Badham's iconic 1977 drama.
8 p.m., HBO: Just Wright — Romantic comedy about an unrequited love that might turn out all right. Queen Latifah plays a physical therapist whose professional help is needed by a basketball star (Common), for whom she has feelings — but he only has eyes for her closest friend (Paula Patton).
9 p.m., STARZ: Chloe — Director Atom Egoyan assembles a solid cast in this drama about a doctor (Julianne Moore) who decides to put her professor husband (Liam Neeson) to the fidelity test. Sure that he's cheating on her, she enlists a professional escort (Amanda Seyfried) to prove whether he actually has cheating on his mind. Nina Dobrev co-stars.
10:15 p.m., TNT: The Brave One — Jodie Foster goes the "Death Wish" route in director Neil Jordan's ("The Crying Game") intense drama about a woman who turns vigilante after an act of violence. The actress plays a New York talk show host mugged in an assault that leaves her fiancé (Naveen Andrews, "Lost") dead. After emerging from a coma, she buys a firearm and becomes a media sensation by secretly luring criminals and settling scores.
11 p.m., USA: Dawn of the Dead — Zombies in a shopping mall — sounds like a five-word indictment of our advertising-addled consumer culture. It's also the setting of this 2004 remake of George Romero's 1979 horror classic, one of the better entries in the zombie subgenre. Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber and Mekhi Phifer lead the cast as survivors of a zombie-producing plague who take refuge in a mall against the encroaching, hungry army of undead outside.
