Film choice

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) SKY CINEMA PREMIERE, 8.00PM ★★★★

 As the Disney expansion of the Star Wars franchise goes on, this latest spin-off pulls two genres out of cinema’s dressing-up box: American Westerns and Weimar-era cloak-anddagger thrillers. Young Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) contends with dastardly crook Dryden Vos (Paul Bettany) while making eyes at Qi’ra (Emilia Clarke) – but the real gem is Donald Glover’s performance as smuggler Lando Calrissian. (2000) FILM4, 10.55PM ★★★★

 Ben Kingsley is at his scariest in this tense and enthralling thriller, playing a gangster thug who wants to rob a well-guarded bank, and so flies out to Spain to drag his retired associate Gary (Ray Winstone) back to work. But Gary is living a contented life with his wife (Amanda Redman), and has absolutely no intention of going back to the criminal world; it forces the two men into a battle of wills that soon turns violent. (2011) BBC ONE, 11.50PM ★★★

 Even if it took the writers only a weekend to come up with The Double, they wasted their Sunday: the plot is as old as they come. Still, at least they assembled a decent cast: Richard Gere and Topher Grace star as a grizzled CIA agent and a young buck, tracking a Russian assassin after the murder of a US senator. Matters become tense when the younger man suspects that his partner might be the killer they seek… Martin Sheen also stars.