IT’S COMPLICATED 2009
Sunday, 1 a.m., USA
ROCKY BALBOA 2006
Saturday, 1 p.m., WWOR
GAMES 1967
Saturday, 10 p.m.,TCM
Beetlejuice, 1988
Sunday, 8:02 p.m., ABC Family
A very funny, sometimes scary and totally bizarre Tim Burton classic. A couple (Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis) who have recently died return as ghosts, and are not very happy with the new couple living in their recently renovated house. When attempts to scare them off the premises don’t work, the ghosts hire the exorcist Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton, with Winona Ryder) to do the job. The corpses are rotting here, decades before “Walking Dead”!
It’s Complicated, 2009
Sunday, 1 a.m., USA
The very funny Nancy Meyers’ movie about a middle-aged ex-couple (Meryl Streep, and Alec Baldwin), who drunkenly hook up at their son’s graduation a decade after their divorce. Not a good move since he’s married to a woman (Lake Bell) half the age of his ex, and she’s dating an architect (Steve Martin).
Rocky Balboa, 2006
Saturday, 1 p.m., WWOR
This one should have had disaster written all over it: Rocky 60 — age not sequel. Absurd, right? Wrong. This terrific “Rocky” comeback is almost as touching as his first comeback, at age 30! Here, Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) is a widower and restaurant owner who sees a TV computer simulation that determines that, in his prime, Rocky would have beat the stuffing out of the reigning champ (Antonio Tarver). It’s enough to drive him right out of retirement and into the ring. With Burt Young and Milo Ventimiglia .
Games, 1967
Saturday, 10 p.m., TCM
Stylish 1960s noir-ish tale of a rich, artsy Manhattan couple, (James Caan, Katharine Ross) who hire an aging cosmetics saleswoman (Simone Signoret) to direct “games” in their apartment involving sex and, yes, death. The “games” include one with a corpse encased in plaster in their living room. While not a fully successful attempt at aping Roman Polanski, this movie is still compelling, if just to watch young Caan and senior Signoret work that room, baby. And, oh, those clothes!