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Television Reviews

Movie of the week, In Praise of Love, SBS, Weds, 10pm:

70-year-old French legend Jean-Luc Godard delivers a surreal and non-linear meditation on the nature of love, memory, cinema and storytelling, which also subverts film conventions. It's a visually captivating film-within-a-film, told in B&W and colour, that asks more questions than it answers, full of intellectual jousting and pretensions, but wrapped in a sly humour.

Eyes Wide Shut, NBN, Sat, 8.30pm:

No wonder Kubrick shuffled off this mortal coil when he realised what a tedious, unsexy duo he had in Tom Lamb Roast and Our Nic. He plays a doctor lurching through the seedier side of New York high society, rattled by his wife's raunchy fantasy. It's ponderous and as titillating as a dead mullet.

The Ancient Greek Games, SBS, Sun, 7.30pm:

This archaeological doco delves into the origins of Athens and the Olympics. The Greeks were having a pretty good time, even after the Romans turned up, but in the 4th century AD, emperor Theodosius converted to Christianity, declared the Games pagan and outlawed them. It took another 1600 years for their comeback.

X-Men, Prime, Sun, 8.40pm:

Aussie Hugh Jackman stars as Wolverine, a bad-tempered mutant with retractable metal claws, brought to a finishing school for superheroes run by Professor X (Patrick Stewart). Toss in Anna Paquin and Halle Berry as his sidekicks, battling an evil Ian McKellen. It's a romp, and faithful to the classic Marvel comic.

Ocean's Eleven, NBN, Sun, 8.30pm:

A stellar cast of Hollywood hunks (George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia) combine for this remake of 1960 rat pack heist flick. It's a hi-tech, fluffy crime comedy with Clooney leading a motley crew planning to knock off a series of casinos.

My Foetus, ABC, Sun, 10.15pm:

This confronting doco about the merits of abortion gives you the reality bare-faced. Its maker, the daughter of a leading abortion doctor, is pregnant and plunges head first into the debate about pro-choice to see if her opinions have changed. She talks to all sides in a rigorous debate that offers some extremely uncomfortable moments.

The Forbidden Team, Mon, SBS, 7.30pm:

In 2001, world soccer body FIFA and the Chinese Government went all out to try and stop a group of Tibetan exiles playing their first ever national team game against Greenland. It's a great yarn.

Dope, ABC, Weds, 9.30pm:

This forensic crime story follows American mastermind Dr Don Catlin and anti-doping scientists around the globe as they use his new test for the designer steroid THG. An Aussie geneticist suggests the next step, gene doping, is impossible to detect.