Film choice

Revolver (2005) 5STAR, 10.00PM ★★

 After making the truly awful Swept Away with then-wife Madonna, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie returns to his suit-wearing gangster roots and his favourite star, Jason Statham. It’s stylishly shot but unfortunately this Ritchie/luc Besson-penned tale of chess, revenge, con artists and assassins is weaved into such a complex, maze-like brain-teaser that it’s virtually incomprehensible.

Limitless (2011) FILM4, 11.15PM ★★★

 Bradley Cooper stars in this thriller about a writer whose former brotherin-law slips him a pill that enables him to access 100 per cent of his brain. His book is finished in four days, so he goes back for more and this time nets himself a fortune on the stock market. Neil Burger directs at breakneck pace, but afterwards you wish that Cooper’s character had used that brainpower for something more interesting than making money.

Hello Ladies: The Movie (2014) SKY ATLANTIC, 12.00MIDNIGHT ★★

 When HBO didn’t give Stephen Merchant’s sitcom a second series, he made this movie instead. It follows him in the role of Stuart, a geeky IT guy who’s looking for his soul mate in Los Angeles. When he learns that his ex-girlfriend is planning to visit, he sets out to impress her with his new lifestyle. Unfortunately, this style of cringe-making comedy has been done to death.