3 April 2022 35THE BEST TV FROM PRIME VIDEO AND BEYOND... MONDAY 4 APRIL
How I Won The War
(TPTV, 9pm)
Making a welcome debut on
Talking Pictures TV, Richard
Lester’s 1967 black comedy
depicts a group of soldiers
in the Second World War,
but its impish style makes it
very much a product of its
era, as does the presence of
John Lennon. Lester talks
about the movie in a 1967
interview available for free
on BFI Player; another of his
films, the weird satire The
Bed Sitting Room (1969), is
on TPTV on Thursday (9pm);
and A Hard Day’s Night,
the 1964 film that introduced
him to the Beatles, is on
Amazon Prime Video and
BFI Player. His 1976 film
Robin And Marian (Tuesday,
Great! Movies, 4.40pm)
finds him in the more stately
company of Sean Connery
and Audrey Hepburn.
Edward PorterSpirit Untamed (Sky Cinema
Premiere, 8.50am)
Children who love horses
might enjoy riding along with
this DreamWorks animated
movie — a benign, old-
fashioned tale of equestrian
adventure — and in the
process they might gain a taste
for westerns. A companion
piece to the Netflix series
Spirit Riding Free, the film
is set in the Old West, and
its story of a girl who gently
subdues a mustang finds
time for a few horse-opera
traditions. Its action scenes
involve steam trains as well as
horses, and its baddies are a
dastardly bunch of wranglers.
Dir: Elaine Bogan (2021)Single White Female (Sky
Cinema Greats, 10.30pm)
An entertaining example of
the yuppies-in-peril genre that
prospered in the 1990s, Barbet
Schroeder’s film stars Bridget
Fonda as a flat-owner and
Jennifer Jason Leigh as her
new lodger, whose flaws go
way beyond a failure to do her
share of the washing-up. (1992)
Edward PorterMaxwell’s house (BBC2, 9pm) Obsessive: Fonda (SCG, 10.30pm)FILM CHOICE
ON DEMAND
Moon Knight (Disney+)
The beating heart of Marvel’s
latest superhero adventure
is undeniably Oscar Isaac.
His portrayal of Steven Grant,
the schizophrenic nebbish
tormented by the realisation
that he may also be former
CIA operative Marc Spector
and a crimefighting superhero
The Resurrection Of Jake
The Snake (YouTube)
Whether you’re immersed in
the lore of American wrestling
or not, this 2015 documentary
proves compelling, the tale of
a broken American hero and
homeless addict and his
attempt to rebuild his life after
a very public collapse. Pro
wresting, you realise, is a world
of damaged souls but also
deep love and camaraderie.
Andrew MaleSnow Angels
(Walter Presents/All 4)
Created by Mette Heeno and
Anna Zackrisson this bleak
Swedish-Danish thriller centres
on the disappearance of a
five-month-old baby but uses
the case to explore the lives of
three women, a cop, a nurse
and the child’s mother. Never
didactic, always gripping, it is
the kind of socially conscious
working-class crime drama
the Scandinavians do so well.The Reason I Jump (Disney+)
Wanting to give its viewers a
better understanding of what
it is like to be autistic, Jerry
Rothwell’s documentary
spends time with young
non-speaking autistic people
in different countries. This
illuminating report comes with
a touch of cinematic boldness:
the film has expressionistic
sequences that convey how
people with autism tend to
experience the world. (2020) EPin the service of Egyptian
moon god Khonshu is both
ridiculous and mesmeric.
The four episodes that critics
have been allowed to see
move adeptly between the
nightmarish and the comic,
the fantastic and the real,
with no real indicators of
where it might go next.
That alone is a delight to
experience, and Isaac has the
range to make it all seem
somehow believable.Split personalities: Deborah Findlay, Scholey, Walker and Button (BBC1, 9pm)The Split (BBC1, 9pm)
The divorce lawyer is herself
divorcing as Abi Morgan’s
drama begins its final run.
The marriage of Hannah
(Nicola Walker) and Nathan
(Stephen Mangan) looks to
be ending amicably, until his
new partner (Lara Pulver)
turns up unheralded when
they have supper with
friends. There are also
updates on Nina (Annabel
Scholey) and Rose (Fiona
Button) in a busy, brilliantly
orchestrated episode
dominated by the Defoe
family’s joys and woes, so
that Hannah’s clients — who
were more prominent in
the original series — are
relegated to subplots: a
doctor (Karen Bryson)
leaving her husband, and a
dowager countess (Lindsay
Duncan, gloriously icy) with
a legacy to protect.
John DugdaleTravel Man (C4, 8.30pm)
With long-time host Richard
Ayoade having now hung up
his compass, Joe Lycett has a
hard act to follow as he takes
over as off-beat tour guide
for this amiable travel series.
In tonight’s opener, he heads
to the Basque Country with
this week’s companion, James
Acaster, the pair dividing their
48-hour itinerary between
Bilbao and San Sebastian.
While they find joy in the
Guggenheim Museum and
a beret shop, their real
delight is reserved for the
region’s pintxos — the bar
snack as delicious artform.
It is all excellent holiday
inspiration for those prepared
to travel; and a perfectly sweet
television mini-break for those
happier on the sofa.
Victoria Segal
Scam Interceptors
(BBC1, 10am)
The staging is overblown to
the point of silliness, but Rav
Wilding has struck gold with
this entertainingly useful
show. From his “scam hub”
(at BBC Scotland HQ) he and a
team of white-hat hackers use
remote access technology to
prevent people being conned
out of their savings.My Secret Falklands War
(Forces TV, 8.05pm)
A ripping yarn from former
ITN editor and Falklands War
correspondent Stewart Purvis,
who tells the tale of a British
psy-ops campaign to create a
fake radio station designed to
amuse and unnerve Argentine
forces as they neared the
Falklands. Remarkably, Tim
Rice was involved.House Of Maxwell
(BBC2, 9pm)
This fascinating series follows
the story of fraudster Robert
Maxwell from his birth in an
eastern European shtetl in
1923 to his death at sea in 1991,
while, as recordings reveal,
staff made panicked phone
calls trying to locate him and
millions of missing pounds.
Helen StewartCRITICS’ CHOICE
The weird worlds
of Richard Lester