Film choice

The Green Man (1956, b/w) Film4, 2.45pm ★★★

Robert Day’s comedy, based on the play Meet a Body by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, follows Harry Hawkins (Alastair Sim), a watchmaker by day, hired assassin by night. After disposing of a dictator and a millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician en route to a remote hotel. Once there, however, Hawkins’s plot is discovered by a salesman (George Cole) – who determines to stop him.

Logan Lucky (2017) Great! Movies, 9pm ★★★★

Reneging on his vow to give up film-making – thank goodness – Steven Soderbergh (of Ocean’s Eleven) returned with this excellent heist comedy about three siblings (Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Riley Keough) staging a robbery during the Memorial Day speedway race in North Carolina, with the help of Daniel Craig (clearly enjoying himself in a break from Bond) as a safe-cracker.

Denial (2016) BBC Two, 11.15pm; not NI ★★★

In 1996, the Holocaust denier David Irving filed a lawsuit against Penguin Books and the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, claiming that she’d libelled him by defining him as such. The case went to the High Court. Mick Jackson’s legal drama is a bit humdrum, and Rachel Weisz is straining at Lipstadt’s accent, but Timothy Spall, as Irving, is the film’s ace in the hole.