Film choice

Speed (1994)

FILM4, 9.00PM ★★★★

 “There’s a bomb on the bus!” is the most famous line and basically the entire plot of one of the best action thrillers of the Nineties. The sizzling chemistry between LAPD Swat specialist Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) and passenger Annie Porter (Sandra Bullock) sexes up the exhilarating action scenes, while Dennis Hopper is fantastically unhinged as a revengedriven, retired bomb squad member turned terrorist.

Fast & Furious 7 (2015)

ITV2, 9.00PM ★★★

 Paul Walker was killed in a car crash part-way through making this film so, after a re-write, it was completed with the help of his two younger brothers and some subtle computer graphics. The good news is that this is the best film in the franchise and does justice to Walker. It isn’t polished blockbuster filmmaking – though if it was, it wouldn’t be Fast & Furious. But it speaks straight to your adrenal glands.

The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

SYFY, 9.00PM ★★★

 It is remarkable that director George Miller’s daft, unfettered romp of a film works at all. But, thanks to Jack Nicholson’s delicious overacting as Daryl Van Horne, a manic gentleman who closely resembles the devil, and the three gorgeous, single small-town friends, Alexandra (Cher), Jane (Susan Sarandon) and Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer), who vie for his debased attentions, it somehow does.