Inspector Gadget (1999)

ITV1, 3.30pm

A live-action feature based on the children's television cartoon, Inspector Gadget is a clumsy cocktail of special effects and slapstick gags. Matthew Broderick plays the eponymous sleuth, a bumbling security guard armed with an arsenal of high-tech crimefighting tools. In pure pantomime villain mode, Rupert Everett steals the film. (78min)

Young Winston (1972)

BBC Two, 4.45pm

Simon Ward plays Churchill in this all-star adaptation of the great wartime leader's early autobiography. The director Richard Attenborough presents the future Prime Minister's formative years as a globetrotting adventure yarn, with no attempt at darkness or complexity. All the same, Young Winston is an engagingly robust affair co-starring Anthony Hopkins, Ian Holm and Anne Bancroft. (124min)

East Is East (1999)

Channel 4, 9pm

Set in 1970s Manchester, this genial culture-clash comedy stars Om Puri as a Pakistani patriarch vainly trying to raise his wayward sons with strict Muslim values. Plenty of jokes, although serious subplots about domestic violence sit uncomfortably with the film's otherwise lightweight tone. (96min)

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)/Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Sky Movies Premiere, 9.35pm/11.50pm

Shot back to back, Clint Eastwood's masterful military double bill revisits the notorious Pacific battle of Iwo Jima from both sides. Flags of Our Fathers unravels the propaganda effort behind that immortal staged photograph of US soldiers raising the Stars and Stripes over the conquered island. Meanwhile, the Oscar-winning Letters from Iwo Jima concentrates more on the battle itself and the struggles of the Japanese officers involved. (132min/141min)

The Hole (2001)

Channel 4, 10.50pm

Recalling both Lord of the Flies and The Blair Witch Project, Nick Hamm's low-budget British psycho-thriller is a guilty pleasure. Four spoilt teens bunking off a school field trip suffer a hellish ordeal while hiding out in an underground bunker. The mostly unknown cast includes Thora Birch and Keira Knightley. (102min)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Channel 4, 1.10am

The second half of tonight's teens-in-peril double bill, this nightmarish grunge-horror classic gave slasher cinema one of its most memorable villains, Leatherface. The murderous antihero of Tobe Hooper's backwoods bloodbath was loosely based on the serial killer Ed Gein, whose grisly exploits also inspired Psycho. (83min)

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