TV FILMS OF THE WEEK

HELL OR HIGH WATER Sunday, Film 4, 9pm

Two brothers – beautifully played by Chris Pine and Ben Foster – embark on a low-level crime spree to save the family ranch. Jeff Bridges is the Texas Ranger sent to stop them.

THE OTHERS Sunday, 5*, 9pm

Nicole Kidman plays a wartime mother who, in need of somewhere safe for her two photosensitive children, moves into a dark and distinctly unsettling mansion. But something just doesn’t feel right...

THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE Monday, Talking Pictures, 6.20pm

The brilliant Alastair Sim plays the head of a boys’ school forced to share its premises with a girls’ school. Enter Margaret Rutherford as his female counterpart and Joyce Grenfell as games mistress Miss Gossage: ‘Just call me Sausage.’ Lovely.

JOHN WICK Wednesday, 5*, 9pm

Too violent for many, there’s no doubt that John Wick, the sort of hitman you call ‘when you want to kill the bogeyman’, has won Keanu Reeves a new following. It begins with a Russian gangster killing John’s dog. Big mistake.

THE CARPETBAGGERS Thursday, Talking Pictures, 9pm

Inspired allegedly by Howard Hughes, this is an epic tale of financial skullduggery and, er, women, lots of beautiful women. George Peppard stars as the young tycoon,

Jonas Cord, in a film very much of its early 1960s period.

SHERLOCK HOLMES Friday, ITV, 10.45pm

This confirmed that the acting career of Robert Downey Jr was back on track. As was the post-Madonna career of director Guy Ritchie, who brings energy, speed and superb visual effects to this hugely enjoyable rebooting of Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic detective.

THE SHINING Friday, BBC1, 10.50pm

Tidal waves of blood, scary twins and a terrifying Jack Nicholson smashing his way through a door with a cry of ‘Here’s Johnny!’ We all know the iconic moments but here’s the chance to be reminded how brilliantly Stanley Kubrick assembled them.