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Entrapment (12)

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The Big Picture; ENTRAPMENT (12) DIRECTOR: JON AMIEL STARRING: SEAN CONNERY, CATHERINE ZETA-JONES 113 MINUTES

AFTER SOME heavy-duty hype at the recent Cannes film festival - only the new Austin Powers film, The Spy Who Shagged Me, was hawked around the market more - Entrapment finally opens across the country tomorrow. Tonight, in Barry Norman's Film Night (10pm Sky Premier), Bazza gets to do what's known in the trade as a "Sean Connery", that is, drool in an old-enough-to-be-your-father fashion over one of its stars, Catherine Zeta-Jones (right). He also casts a wry, middle-aged eye over two new British films, a comedy called Virtual Sexuality, directed by Nick Hurran, and a thriller entitled All the Little Animals, which stars John Hurt and Christian Bale.

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Titanic Town (15)

NO ONE is quite sure what it actually is. Or rather, what "It" actually is. But whatever "It" is, the British have it in spades, according to an influential American magazine, Entertainment Weekly.