To tie-in with the launch of the BFI’s Black Star season, Film4 presents a celebration of black filmmaking talent both in front of and behind the camera.
Wednesday 2nd November
12 Years A Slave
– 9pm
Steve McQueen’s Film4-backed historical drama, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender
Thursday 3rd November
Shame – 11.10pm
Michael Fassbender stars as a New York sex addict, directed by Steve McQueen
Hunger – 1.15am
Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen directs an account of the IRA hunger strike and its leader Bobby Sands.
Friday 4th November
The Anomaly – 9pm
Former soldier Ryan (Noel Clarke) experiences his life in ten minute spells, jumping further into the future after every one
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai – 12.40am
Idiosyncratic director Jim Jarmusch pays homage to the samurai movie with a hybrid of the hip hop and mob genres. Forest Whitaker stars as a loner hitman in this hauntingly poetic and obliquely funny gem
Saturday 5th November
Just Wright
– 4:50pm
Queen Latifah plays a physical therapist falling for Common’s recovering basketball pro in this romantic comedy
Man On Fire
– 11:05pm
Denzel Washington stars as the bodyguard of the daughter of a wealthy couple in Mexico City who wreaks bloody revenge when she is kidnapped. Action thriller from Tony Scott
Sunday 6th November
Brewster’s Millions
– 4.40pm
Richard Pryor stars as Montgomery Brewster, a low-league baseball player who discovers that a distant relative has left him $300m in their will
Philadelphia – 9pm
Denzel Washington and Oscar-winning Tom Hanks star in Jonathan Demme’s powerful drama.
Bringing Down the House – 11.35pm
Odd couples don’t come much odder than Steve Martin and Queen Latifah, who team up for this mildly diverting but very predictable farce from the director of The Wedding Planner
Monday 7th November
I, Robot – 6.45pm
Futuristic thriller starring Will Smith as a troubled cop whose issues with the ever-increasing robot population are seemingly vindicated when one of them becomes a murder suspect. Slick sci-fi from Alex Proyas, director of Dark City
Mona Lisa – 1.20am
From award winning Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan, this is the unsettling story of George, a small-time crook and eternal victim
Tuesday 8th November
Babymother – 2.05am
Single mother Anita (Anjela Lauren Smith) has attitude and ambition, and determined to become a successful singer forms an all girl reggae group with her two friends.
Wednesday 9th November
The Negotiator – 11pm
Based-on-a-true-story thriller starring Samuel L Jackson and Kevin Spacey as two police negotiators going head to head.
Gone Too Far – 1:50am
Two estranged teenage brothers, one who grew up in Nigeria and one who grew up in Peckham, meet for the first time and struggle to accept each other
Thursday 10th November
12 Years a Slave – 9pm
Steve McQueen’s Film4-backed historical drama, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender
What’s Love Got To Do With It – 11.30pm
Agreeably camped-up biopic, ringing with righteous sentimentality and brassy defiance, with a furiously good central performance from Bassett.
Second Coming – 1.50am
Debbie Tucker Green’s drama follows a tight family unit navigating their way through family life as it breaks down in the aftermath of an unexplained pregnancy
Friday 11th November
Ghost – 11.05pm
Heaven can wait for Patrick Swayze in this supernatural love story starring Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg.
Saturday 12th November
I, Robot – 6.45pm
Futuristic thriller starring Will Smith as a troubled cop whose issues with the ever-increasing robot population are seemingly vindicated when one of them becomes a murder suspect. Slick sci-fi from Alex Proyas, director of Dark City
48 HRS. – 12am
Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy star in Walter Hill’s fast and furious cop comedy. Murphy is the motor-mouthed crook who helps cynical cop Nolte avenge the death of the latter’s former associates
Sunday 13th November
The Last King Of Scotland – 11pm
Forest Whitaker stars in this blistering thriller about Ugandan dictator Idi Amin
Monday 14th November
The Best Man Holiday – 9pm
Malcolm D Lee directs this heart-warming comedy-drama sequel to 1999’s The Best Man.
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