WE’VE BEEN SIFTING through the TV movie options available this week.

Your New Release Pick

The Devil All The Time

• Netflix

Based on the novel by Donald Ray Pollock, this stars Tom Holland as a young Arvin Russell, who’s raised by his family in postwar America. We watch as he grapples with growing up in a troubling and troubled world.

Your Classic Pick

A Beautiful Mind

• Netflix

This 2001 biographical drama tells the (at times lightly fictionalised) story of the real-life John Nash, a Nobel Laureate who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Stars Russell Crowe alongside Ed Harris and Jennifer Connelly.

Your Romantic Comedy Pick

The Break-Up

• TG4, 10.35pm, Saturday

Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston play a couple who break up but share a house – and bed – because neither of them will leave.

Your Comedy-Action Pick

Game Night

• RTÉ One, Saturday, 9.30pm

This thoroughly enjoyable hoot sees a group of friends gathering to play a mystery game… which swiftly goes very, very wrong. Stars Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams.

Your classic action pick

Earthquake

• RTÉ One, Sunday, 3.20pm

Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner are among the cast of this action classic about a devastating earthquake that hits LA.

Your Family Pick

My New Best Friend

• RTÉ Two, Sunday, 2.15pm

A young girl becomes friends with a dog, and he and his owner help her when her mother becomes ill. 

And finally… One to avoid

The Legend of Tarzan

• RTÉ Two, Sunday, 9pm

As the reviewer on RogerEbert.com put it, “sometimes you have to wonder how certain movies get made”. Harry Potter director David Yates directs a tale about pilfered diamonds, a grown-up Tarzan with a six pack, and his new life in England with his wife Jane.