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Domino is based on a true story, though you wouldn't know to look at it. The film (on general release from Oct 14) comes on as a series of grungy, grainy, gruesome images that flash past quicker than a blink - a turbid torrent, a flurry of slurry, a Tony Scott movie.
Scott's subject is the late Domino Harvey, daughter of film star Laurence (Room At The Top, Manchurian Candidate), and just as much of a looker. Even when she quit the catwalk to become a bounty hunter the cameras stuck with her and she got to star in a TV show of her own.
At least that's the way the film's Ms Harvey (Keira Knightley) tells it. Scott, on the other hand, would have you know that its subject is not to be trusted. Domino might look like a brain-dead entry in the mixed-up-kid-who-finds-herself-through-violence mini-genre (eg Bonnie and
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Clyde), but in reality it's a disturbing disquisition on our celeb-soaked culture. Give us a break, Tony.
There are two true story movies on TV next week that do tell you something about the real world. First up is Scandal (Channel 4, Monday, 11pm), Michael Caton-Jones's take on the fall-out from the Profumo affair. John Hurt was never more flustered than as Stephen Ward, the doctor nominated by the establishment as their fall-guy; Joanne Whalley and Bridget Fonda never more fetching than as his belles dames sans merci.
Fonda turns up again in It Could Happen To You (Channel Five, Thursday, 8pm) as the waitress Nicolas Cage can't afford to tip but promises to go halves with if he wins the lottery. Which he does. To the tune of $4 million. It should happen to me. 
 Last week: Oliver Twist
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