Film choice

Spider-man: No Way Home (2021) Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm ★★★

The latest Spider-man comes with fun cameos from previous webslingers Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield (plus past villains Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina) thanks to the worldbending magic of Doctor Strange. In scenes where current Peter Parker (Tom Holland) and his girlfriend MJ (Zendaya) are interacting this is great, but it becomes a melange of close-ups and faces grafted on digital bodies.

Coogan’s Bluff (1968) ITV4, 9pm ★★★

In this early Clint Eastwood outing the young actor is an Arizona cop, deputy sheriff Walt Coogan, sent to New York to collect a killer (Don Stroud). He soon gets into a string of scrapes when the convict keeps escaping and the hero, too stubborn to return home emptyhanded, must wearily set out to track him down. Eastwood may be playing to type here, but he’s very watchable here as the tough small-town cop.

Mary Queen of Scots (2018) BBC One, 10.50pm; Wal, 11.20pm ★★★★

This ravishing period piece offers a close inspection of the internal whirrings of the Scottish monarch’s early reign, rising above the martyrwhore image of legend. Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie are excellent as Queens Mary and Elizabeth, butting heads over personal and political baggage. Its an admirable treatment of a tricky plot, faithful to the period.