Michael Wilmington

BASIC CABLE "CASINO" (star)(star)(star)(star) 6 p.m., 10 p.m., Bravo The Las Vegas that Martin Scorsese shows us in "Casino" is set in the 1970s and '80s, but it evokes an...

PREMIUM "V FOR VENDETTA" ** 6:45 p.m., MAX The Wachowski brothers, who made hay with "The Matrix," adapted the 1980s British graphic novel imagining a murderously totalitarian near future plagued...

BASIC CABLE "MAID TO ORDER" * 1/2 7 a.m., OXY The normally likable Ally Sheedy stars in a dull, cloying, reverse Cinderella story in which a Beverly Hills teenage princess...

PREMIUM CABLE "MADISON" *** 7:40 a.m., TMC In William Bindley's "Hoosiers" with boats, Jim McCormick (James Caviezel) must rally the fiscally strapped small town of Madison, Ind., when it wins...

BASIC CABLE "HAROLD AND MAUDE" (star)(star)(star)(star) 5:15 p.m., TCM One of the best-loved cult movies of the '70s. This buoyant, bizarre anti-establishment romantic comedy matches suicide-intrigued teen rich kid Harold...

The fourth week of the Gene Siskel Film Center's European Union Film Festival offers new pictures from Germany, France, Spain, Great Britain, Italy, Romania and other European Union nations --...

Who's in it: Chicago Cubs What it's about: Director-writer-star Matt Liston's "docu-comedy" records the Cubs' 2003 season, when they made a run for the World Series but came up short...

PREMIUM CABLE "BEAUTIFUL" * 7 p.m., OXY Sally Field's directorial debut about a self-absorbed woman (Minnie Driver) who will cross anyone to win beauty pageants. This confusing film sends mixed...

BASIC CABLE "THE WAY WE WERE" *** 5 p.m., TCM A persuasive, involving and ruefully true love story that spans more than 25 years of American life. Barbra Streisand is...

The third week of the Gene Siskel Film Center's European Union Film Festival offers new pictures from Germany, Greece, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic and other European Union...