July 25...
Midnight: "Sguy and the Family Stone" Feature movie version of a late night TV anime series about a family in Shimane who run an African-American-style soul food restaurant. Gangsters, funk music, afros of all colors and shapes, and even the FBI!

1:30 a.m.: "Galapagos" BBC documentary about the island that Darwin made famous. Learn all about spiny lizards, big ol' ugly turtles, and more birds than you can shake a wire clothes hanger at. Reinforce your knowledge of evolution for that next run-in with the fundamentalist Christian down the hall. The music's supposed to be groovy, too.

July 26...
Midnight (parts 1 & 2) and 3:15 a.m. (parts 3 & 4): "Little Britain" The first four episodes of the hit BBC series lampooning all things British. See Elton John, George Michael and Kate Moss get made fun of--on purpose, with their permission!

1:00 a.m.: "Across the Universe" Director Julie Taymor's (The Lion King) hybrid of Hair and That 70's Show is about a Liverpool lad who comes to America in the late 60s to find the G.I. father who left his mother after World War II was over. He hooks up with a rich lily-white college girl whose boyfriend has just been killed in Vietnam. Hardly compelling stuff, but get this: it's all scored to Beatles songs, which the principals sing with passable skill. My only complaint is that they stick to the hits. I would have given my right nut to hear these kids take on "Me and My Monkey."