Your TV Guide to the Week - Nov 19th, 2021

Agent Cody Banks

Length: 1hr 42min
Mood: Comedy, Adventure, Action
Director: Harald Zwart
Starring: Frankie Muniz, Hilary Duff, Angie Harmon

Cody Banks is a shy common teenager, living with his mother, father and little brother in a suburban house. But he is also a very efficient undercover CIA agent. He is assigned to date Natalie Connors in order to be invited to her birthday party and get close and spy Natalie's father, Dr. Connors. Dr. Connors is a brilliant scientist, who has developed some sort of micro-robots with the intention of controlling oil leakage from tankers. However, the investors of the experiment intend to use the device as a powerful weapon.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Length: 1hr 44min
Mood: Comedy, Adventure, Musical
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees

The standard story of Robin Hood: Evil Prince John is oppressing the people while good King Richard is away on the Crusades. Robin steals from the tax collectors, wins an archery contest, defeats the Sheriff, and rescues Maid Marian. In this version, however, Mel Brooks adds his own personal touch, parodying traditional adventure movies, romance movies, and the whole idea of men running around the woods in tights.

Leprechaun

Length: 1hr 32min
Mood: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Director: Mark Jones
Starring: Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Mark Holton

When Dan O'Grady returns to the U.S. after stealing some Irish leprechaun's pot of gold, he thinks he can settle down and enjoy his newfound wealth. He thought wrong. The leprechaun followed him and O'Grady barely gets away with his life, having locked the little monster in his basement. Ten years later, J.D. and his spoiled daughter Tory move in. By accident, the leprechaun is released and almost immediately the annoying creature starts to look for his gold, not displaying any respect for human life.

Brooklyn's Finest

Length: 2hr 12mins
Mood: Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke

In Brooklyn, amid drug deals, violence, casual racism, poverty, housing projects, and corrupt cops, we follow three officers: Tango, African-American, working undercover, believing he's earned a promotion to a desk job but told he has to set up the bust of an ex-con who saved his life; Sal, who'll commit murder to get cash; and, Eddie, the precinct's oldest beat cop, a week to go before retirement, assigned to mentor an earnest rookie. Can this end well for any of the three?

We Own the Night

Length: 1hr 57min
Mood: Action, Crime, Drama
Director: James Gray
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes

Two brothers have chosen different paths: Joe has followed his father Bert into New York's Finest; he's a rising star. Bobby, who uses his mother's maiden name, manages a club. Bobby also has a new girlfriend and a green-light to develop a Manhattan club. Joe and Bert ask him to help with intelligence gathering; he declines. Then, Joe raids Bobby's club to arrest the Russian. From there, things spiral out of control: the Russian puts out a hit on Joe, personal losses mount, and Bobby's loyalties face the test.

Above Suspicion

Length: 1hr 44min
Mood: Action, Documentary, Crime
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Jack Huston, Emilia Clarke, Sophie Lowe

The chilling true story of a newly married F.B.I. poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it's a ticket to disaster for both of them. This scandal shook the foundations of the nation's top law enforcement agency, ending in the first ever conviction of an F.B.I. Agent for murder.

Taken

Length: 1hr 30min
Mood: Action, Crime, Thriller
Director: Pierre Morel
Starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser

After reluctantly agreeing to let his 17-year-old daughter, Kim, go to France with her best friend, Bryan Mills is horrified to hear that she is kidnapped by an Albanian gang whose specialty is prostitution rings. With only 96 hours to go before he'll never find her again, Bryan rushes to France to save her. As a former CIA agent, he has all the skills necessary to rescue her, if he can only find her.

Tangled

Length: 21mins
Mood: Animation, Action, Adventure
Creators: Shane Prigmore, Chris Sonnenburg
Starring: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Eden Espinosa

It’s just the beginning of happily ever after for Rapunzel and Eugene. As Rapunzel reacquaints herself with her parents, her kingdom and the people of Corona, she comes to realize that there is so much more she needs to learn about the world and herself before she becomes Princess of Corona.