Movie highlights of the week

Ron Howard directs this impressive biopic of mathematician John Forbes Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who battled against schizophrenia for much of his adult life. Russell Crowe's excellent performance as Nash narrowly failed to win him an Academy Award. (2001) A Beautiful Mind:

Wednesday, 9.30pm, RTE 1.

Enjoyable schlock which sees Laurence Olivier as a Nazi hunter on the trail of the crazed Dr Josef Mengele (played here, with an impressive moustache, by ...