Adolescent angst, talk radio and two rarely seen classics from decades passed

Talk Radio

Oliver Stone’s 1988 film makes you laugh, makes you mad and keeps you on edge watching for the killers in the shadows. Eric Bogosian stars in this savagely audacious movie of his play that is a dip into the dangerous games played between a performer and his audience, a society and its malcontents and the medium of radio and the faceless voices it broadcasts. Bogosian’s baiting call-in host offers listeners a stream of vituperation, abuse and wild sarcasm.

Sunday at 9 p.m. Cinemax

House of Games

David Mamet’s coldly absorbing, 1987 romantic thriller is almost as dry as remembered sin and involves a Seattle psychiatrist (Lindsay Crouse) pulled by desire and curiosity into the con games of the oily and smoothly antagonistic Mike (Joe Mantegna).

Tuesday at 8 p.m. KCOP