HEAT (1995)

Sunday, 12 noon, TNT

Before Al Pacino started overacting,and Robert De Niro started accepting roles in every bad movie there was “Heat,” a clever,glossy Michael Mann film about a master detective chasing a master thief all over Los Angeles.Co-starring Val Kilmer.

SHAFT (1971)

Friday, 10 p.m., AMC

The first cool,suave-as-a-tango-dancer black private eye,John Shaft (Richard Roundtree ),takes on a powerful black

crime syndicate and the white Mafia. They all converge when a crime boss named Bumpy (Moses Gunn)hires Shaft

to find his daughter after she ‘s been kidnapped.Can you dig it?

SIDEWAYS (2004)

Monday, 8 p.m., HBO

A totally unexpected great gem of a male-bonding movie.Paul Giamatti is Miles,a failed writer and bitter junior high school teacher who travels with about-to-be-married Jack (Thomas Haden Church)on a last fling through California wine country.Much better than it sounds!

GLORY (1989)

Saturday, 11:35 p.m., ABC

The story of the Army ‘s first black regiment under the command of an inexperienced Civil War leader,played by

a badly miscast Matthew Broderick.The movie is worth viewing however,for the performances of Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman.