WEDNESDAY

Bless This House (1972) U

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7.15PM, TALKING PICTURES TV ★★★ An early spin-off from the long-running TV comedy, with Sid James as the suburbanite whose new neighbours (Terry Scott and June Whitfield) cause him no end of sleepless nights. All Sid wants is a bit of peace – and a chance to enjoy the fruits of his whisky still.

Wall Street (1987) 15 ◆ 9PM, PARAMOUNT ★★★★ Cutting social commentary from writer-director Oliver Stone, focusing on Wall Street’s boom years – and to hell with the bust. Michael Douglas (right), on Oscarwinning form, and Charlie Sheen, still the fresh-faced young star, are the sleazy veteran and the rookie.

Full Metal Jacket (1987) 15

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10PM, ITV4 ★★★★

Perfectionist Stanley Kubrick took longer and longer to make movies in the latter years of his career, but it resulted in epics such as this war-is-hell story. Matthew Modine (below) and Adam Baldwin are the Marines who make it to Vietnam after bootcamp.

Brothers (2009) 15

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10.30PM, TG4 ★★★★

Jim Sheridan’s acclaimed drama, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire, centres on an ex-convict who resolves to take care of his soldier brother’s family after he is apparently killed in action.

The Lady Vanishes

(1938) U ● 11.30PM, VIRGIN ONE ★★★★ Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller about two passengers investigating an old woman’s disappearance from a train. Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave and May Whitty star.

Middle Men (2009) 18

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1.50AM, CH4 ★★★

Comedy drama charting the light-bulb moment of two friends who would make a mint by enabling the discreet use of credit card transactions on the web. And so, the floodgates of internet pornography opened.