Movie Spotlight

Young Frankenstein (KCAL Sunday at 6 p.m.) is a 1974 satire for movie buffs: Mel Brooks’ monochrome parody of the James Whale/Universal “Frankenstein” series--full of lovingly satirized decor and eye-rolling jokes and parody. With Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle as Frankenstein (“Fronkenstein!”) and his monster, Madeleine Kahn as the Bride, Marty Feldman as Igor, and Teri Garr, looking for romance.

Hoosiers (KCOP Sunday at 6 p.m.), a 1986 release, is an engaging, modest, utterly American and thrilling movie based on a true story, about how a small-town Indiana high school basketball team plays its way toward the 1954 state championship. Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey and Dennis Hopper star.

In the 1995 Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), Steven Seagal is back as Casey Ryback, ex-Navy SEAL and current cook, and he’s as snidely catatonic as ever. Ryback spends most of the movie cracking necks and clambering atop speeding trains, which is just as well, because whenever he slows down for a quiet scene with his estranged 17-year-old niece, Sarah (Katherine Heigl), he resembles one of those impassive cartoon characters whose only mobile feature is a movable mouth. “Under Siege 2” isn’t going to convince anyone that Seagal is Brando, though he often sounds a bit like him. But taken strictly as an action sequel, the film is a lively show. It’s a formula follow-up with formula dialogue and formula action but the director, Geoff Murphy, does extremely well within the sequel’s narrow limits. If “Under Siege” was “Die Hard” on a ship, “Under Siege 2” is “Die Hard” on a train.

Point Break (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) is a beautiful but dumb 1991 movie starring Keanu Reeves as a college quarterback turned FBI agent who infiltrates the surfer subculture in an attempt to solve a series of bank robberies. Gary Busey is his partner, Patrick Swayze an unintentionally amusing surfer mystic.

Boys N the Hood (KCOP Saturday at 7 p.m.), John Singleton’s powerful 1991 landmark drama of survival in South Central L.A., balances the relationship of a strong father (Laurence Fishburne, superb) and his promising son (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and the terrible vulnerability of less fortunate friends to the pressures of the gangs.