MOVIE CHOICE

Killer Dearest

(2018) PG ● 2.15PM, CH5 ★★ Emily Rose stars in this madefor-TV thriller as a woman who is pulled over by the police for a traffic violation. To add to her troubles, she’s driving her boyfriend’s car – and there’s a bloody knife in the back.

The Cruel Sea

(1953) U ● 2.30PM, BBC2 ★★★★ From a novel by Nicholas Monsarrat and a screenplay by Eric Ambler – who both served in the Second World War – this drama film follows the men of the Royal Navy convoys on the Atlantic. Jack Hawkins stars.

The Sessions

(2012) 12 ◆ 2.50AM, CH4 ★★★★ Acclaimed comedy drama starring John Hawkes as a writer who survived polio, but is forced to live in an iron lung and as a result is a virgin at 38. Helen Hunt co-stars as the sex surrogate he hires to help him.