WEDNESDAY

The Black Widow Killer

(2018) 15 u 2.15PM, CH5 HH

A popular high-school teacher is murdered, and her best friend’s husband is also killed. Erin Karpluk plays the worried mother who is at the centre of it all, and who suspects that her teenage daughter’s new teacher has it in for her in this by-the-numbers daytime thriller.

School For Scoundrels (1960) U

● 2.45PM, BBC2 HHHH

Terry-Thomas and Alastair Sim star in this glorious stiff-upper-lip British comedy. Hapless Henry is tired of coming last, and hopes to learn how to get ahead of the pack when he enrols at the College of Lifemanship.

Creed II (2018) 12 u

9.35PM, RTé ONE HHHH

Michael B Jordan and Sylvester Stallone (above) return as new champ Adonis Creed and his mentor Rocky Balboa. The young boxer is about to face off with Viktor Drago, the son of the man who killed his father in the ring.

The Revenant (2015) 15

u

11PM, ITV4 HHHH

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a tracker on the American frontier of the early 19th century. Attacked by a bear (in a scene notorious for its realism), DiCaprio’s Hugh Glass fights tooth and claw, first to survive, then for vengeance.

Memento (2000) 15 u 11.15PM, BBC2 HHHH Christopher Nolan’s dark thriller stars Guy Pearce (right) as an amnesiac who can’t form new memories, and is looking for the men who killed his wife. Polaroids and rudimentary tattoos help him to remember.

Nebraska

(2013) 15 u

2.10AM, CH4 HHHH

Bruce Dern proves that retirement isn’t on the cards with his fine performance in Alexander Payne’s typically quirky comic drama. Will Forte is the son taking dad Dern on a revealing road trip.