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TELEVISION GUIDE Wednesday May 9 to Tuesday May 15, 2012 Highlights this week 1. Not to be confused with the famous Chiko Roll (visit chiko.com.au for unreconstructed beach chauvinism), Denis Moschitto stars as Chiko (SBS2, Saturday, 9.30pm), a German crime thriller in which friends fall out because of dangerous ambitions. One critic described Moschitto as having ‘dangerous lips’, but perhaps he was thinking of a vampire movie at the time. A versatile lead, best known for his role in the comedy Kebab Connection, Moschitto is also the co-author of the computer books Hackerland and Hackertales and a musician with the bands Scoopex and Shining-8. 2. Toby Maguire and Reese Witherspoon star in Pleasantville (Go!, Sunday, 9pm), a clever satire on conformism and various metaphors for ‘reality’. It tries to do too much at once but generally pleases. One amateur critic on Rotten Tomatoes notes: ‘As a nerdy kid’s black and white television show becomes his life, he and his sister are sucked into the universe of 1958’. Some Americans never left it, but in Pleasantville people and objects begin to change into colour. There are several places in America and Canada called Pleasantville. The Pleasantville Chamber of Commerce (www.pleasantville. com) in Pleasantville, New York, gets the first hit below the movies searches. You can find out more about the actual town, settled in 1695, at www.pleasantville-ny.gov.
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