Small screen movies

Tomorrow, Five, 9pm

***

This odd Michel Gondry movie is, surprisingly, a feelgood film which pays tribute to the virtues of neighbourhoods and the joy of low-budget creativity. Mos Def plays a nerdy video shop assistant keeping an eye on the business while his boss is away, when his annoying pal Jack Black erases all the tapes in a ridiculous accident. Naturally, the two guys decide to save the day by remaking all the lost movies – from Ghostbusters to The Lion King – using only home-made props. And naturally, the "sweded" versions became a massive hit with the locals who demand more and more.

Also showing

Casanova

Tomorrow, BBC 3, 7:15pm

This 2005 version of the life of the legendary lover was somewhat overlooked when it came out, perhaps because David Tennant's entertaining TV version had got in first a few months earlier. But in retrospect it's not bad: the late Heath Ledger is charming and the story is played for farce and daft laughs, with the Venetian seducer meeting his match in Sienna Miller's feminist fencer (yes, really).

The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

****

Tomorrow, BBC 4, 10pm

It may have seemed impossible to film Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir about his life after suffering a massive stroke which left him with 'locked-in syndrome,' paralysed from the neck down and able to move only his left eyelid, with which he blinked out messages to dictate his story. But this Oscar-nominated interpretation, starring Mathieu Amalric, found great critical acclaim.

This article was first published in The Scotsman, Saturday July 3, 2010