One Battle After Another to On Swift Horses: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-winning counterculture caper with Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn is breathless fun, while Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones star in a 50s-set drama about passion and identity Paul Thomas Anderson finally gets his Oscar – and with one of his most riotously enjoyable films. His take on Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland ejects the author’s trademark impenetrability and gives us a larger-than-life action caper with political undertones. Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio), part of a US left-wing revolutionary group betrayed by his own lover, lives off-grid with teen daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti). That is until white supremacist Col Steven Lockjaw (Sean Penn) comes searching for Willa – who may be his child – and she and Bob are forced on the run. Also in the mix are Benicio del Toro’s martial arts teacher/migrant activist, two assassins and a bunch of radical nuns. Breathless fun. Thursday, 10.30am, 10.20pm, Sky Cinema Premiere/HBO Max When discharged Korean war sailor Julius (Jacob Elordi) visits his brother Lee (Will Poulter) in Kansas, he and Lee’s fiancee Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) seem to have an instant connection. However, in Daniel Minahan’s plaintive, episodic