WEDNESDAY

Brace For Impact (2016) PG

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2.15PM, CH5 ★★★

This thriller, starring Kerry Condon, Sheila McCarthy and Ennis Esmer should pass the time, as long as you don’t expect too much. When the brother of disgraced flight crash investigator Sofia Gilchrist perishes in a plane she was supposed to be on, Sofia breaks protocol and covertly looks into the disaster.

Beetlejuice (1988) 15

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9PM, COMEDY CENTRAL ★★★★ Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis are the kindly ghosts haunting their old home. Tim Burton’s quirky horror comedy features a scene-stealing turn from Michael Keaton (above) as the grubby ‘bio-exorcist’ of the title.

The Nice Guys (2016) 15

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10PM, ITV4 ★★★★

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe (above) have an awful lot of fun playing incompetent private detectives in this 1970s-set comedy from Lethal Weapon’s Shane Black. Hired to look into the death of an adult film star, they have various rings run around them.

Priest (2011) 12

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10PM, SYFI ★★★

Maggie Q and Paul Bettany play warrior priests who help to vanquish the vampires that once threatened humanity. Now decommissioned, they have to go against the Church to stage a rescue mission.

Little Men (2016) PG

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1.40AM, CH4 ★★★★

Ira Sachs’s follow-up to 2014’s Love Is Strange is another keenly focused, perceptive drama, about two boys who form a bond while their parents fight over money. Child actors Theo Taplitz and Michael Barbieri are excellent in a film that brings a unique perspective to adult problems; Jennifer Ehle and Greg Kinnear are among the grown-ups.