MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, 2005
Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Starz
THE FIGHTER 2010
Thursday, 7 p.m., FX
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, 2012
Saturday, 8 p.m., HBO
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, 2011
Sunday, 8 p.m., Encore
Daniel Craig plays Mikael Blomkvist, a brilliant but disgraced investigative journalist who is hired to write the memoirs of a reclusive billionaire (Christopher Plummer). What he really wants however is for Blomkvist to find out what happened to his favorite niece who went missing 40 years earlier. Blomkvist enlists the services of a psychologically and sexually wounded computer hacker (Rooney Mara), who is brilliant.
Memoirs of a Geisha, 2005
Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Starz
A Hollywood version of Arthur Golden’s riveting novel about the underworld of geishas, courtesans and sexual performers in Japan’s old “floating world.” The plot revolves around two sisters — one is a beauty with blue eyes, the other plain — sold to a geisha house by an impoverished fisherman. With Suzuka Ohgo, Ken Watanabe and Michelle Yeoh.
The Fighter, 2010
Thursday, 7 p.m., FX
Christian Bale and Melissa Leo both won Supporting Actor Oscars in this brilliant, inspired-by-true-life story of two Lowell, Mass. boxing brothers. Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), became “The Pride of Lowell” after a near KO of Sugar Ray Leonard, and then became a big-time crack addict. Meanwhile, his younger brother, Micky (Mark Wahlberg), trying to keep the family whole, strives to be what his brother almost was. Brilliant.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, 2012
Saturday, 8 p.m., HBO
A small group of British retirees moves to India together to a newly restored luxury hotel. When they get there, however, they learn that the hotel is a big dump, and life is anything but luxurious. They’re stuck and they’re angry, but eventually become charmed by the place, the people and the situation. It’s heart-warming, funny and just terrific. The sparkling cast includes Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Tom Wilkinson, Penelope Wilton and Maggie Smith.