Film choice

The Accountant (2016) SKY CINEMA PREMIERE, 8.00PM ★★

 The one thing there’s no accounting for in this film is taste. Ben Affleck plays Christian Wolff, an mathematics savant whose career in financial services has brought him into the employ of some of the slimiest mobsters around. For reasons that don’t add up, our hero’s father (Robert C Treveiler) decides it’s in the best interests of his disadvantaged son to train him up as a ruthless killer. JK Simmons and Anna Kendrick also star.

I Love You, Man (2009) 5STAR, 10.00PM ★★

 Paul Rudd, realising that he doesn’t have a best man for his wedding, sets out to find himself a buddy in this contrived bromance from Meet the Parents/fockers creator John Hamburg. Beer-swilling Jason Segal seems to fit the bill, but of course things go wrong. The results aren’t hilarious, but both leading actors have their amusing moments, particularly Rudd with his James Bond impressions and bad air guitar.

ITV4, 10.15PM ★★★

 Producer-director-actor Clint Eastwood casts himself as Sgt Tom Highway (nicknamed Gunney) of the US Marine Corps. Having alienated his superiors, Highway asks to end his career where it began and is transferred to perform gunnery duties in his old outfit in Grenada where he has to rescue students from a Marxist government. Not Eastwood’s best, but still a decent action film and it was nominated for an Oscar.

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)