Our movie guy James Finnegan says there’s no shortage of laughs and romance in today’s films…

In The Electric Horsemen (Saturday 3.30pm RTE1) Robert Redford and Jane Fonda take the reins (sorry, I couldn’t resist it!) in director Sydney Pollack’s comedy drama.

“Sonny” Steele (Redford) is a former rodeo champion with a drink problem.

He is hired as a Ranch breakfast cereal company’s spokesman but discovers that the champion horse he will be riding as the company trademark, has been drugged with tranquillizers.

Sonny decides to steal the horse and give it its freedom. However, Sonny finds himself charged with Horse stealing and finds himself working with his former wife and reporter Hallie (Fonda).

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In the third adaptation of the autobiographical novel of the same name Cheaper by the Dozen (Saturday 6.35pm RTE1), is a cheery mishmash of family life when a restaurant owner and his second wife raise the children from each other’s first marriage, their own offspring together and the continued involvement of their former spouses.

Starring Zach Braff as Paul Baker, the patriarch and owner of Baker’s Breakfast restaurant and Gabrielle Union as his wife, this film attempts to bring a more modern interpretation of a familiar story.

Jane Austin’s classic tale Emma (Saturday 9.45pm RTE1) is another film that has been adapted for the screen many times.

Set in Regency times in England, Emma (Anna Taylor-Joy) searches for a new companion after her governess marries.

She considers herself a matchmaker, but her well meaning interference in the romantic relationships of her friends causes misguided matches and mishaps that somehow lead her to find love that has been there all along.

Directed by Autumn de Wilde in her debut feature, this also stars Johnny Flynn, Josh O’Connor, Callum Turner, Mia Goth, Miranda Hart and Bill Nighy.

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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Saturday 10.30 RTE1) is the first and best of the series of the British sixties secret agent (no, not that one but similar) who is frozen in suspended animation when his arch nemesis escapes justice.

Thirty years later he is defrosted to do battle once again with Dr Evil, but finds the attitudes and morals of the sixties do not work quite the same in the modern world.

Written by Mike Myers, who also takes the dual role of Powers and Dr. Evil, and also starring Elizabeth Hurley, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Will Farrell and Mimi Rogers, it is fun but not terribly subtle.

Clockwise (Saturday 12 Midnight RTE1) is a wonderful film starring John Cleese as Brian Stimpson, an English Headmaster who has a obsessive compulsive attitude towards timekeeping.

So when a series of events turns his trip to a Convention into a spiral of embarrassing mishaps, chaos reigns.

It also stars Penelope Wilton, Alison Steadman, Stephen Moore and the best of the British character acting talent and a script from the pen of Michael Frayn. Enjoy!

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