Five things for you to watch this weekend

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND APPLE TV+

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Feature director Todd Haynes finds the perfect material for his first foray into documentary in the story of one of music’s most influential and misunderstood bands — The Velvet Underground. It takes half of the film’s two hours to get to the point of the release of the band’s first seminal, Andy Warholproduced, banana-brandished classic with singer Nico.

Before that, Haynes spends archive-rich time locating the members of the band and their music within the 1960s New York Underground art scene. The bulk of the film is rightly given over to the meeting of the members and their stormy two-album period that changed the way music was heard.

DES — BRITBOX

David Tenant gives creepy, psychopathic life to British Thatcher-era serial killer Denis Nielsen in this miniseries, which follows his capture, interrogation and the search for the families of his victims. It’ sa harrowing reminder of a very ordinary man who turned out to be a terrible example of the banality of evil.

HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON SHOWMAX

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Documentary filmmaker John Wilson is a charming guide in this series of short, sharp and quirky meanderings about life dispensed as nuggets of eccentric wisdom delivered in comic vignettes on the streets of

New York. It’s a celebration of the small things that make us human and the oddball characters of one hell of a town.

THE FORGOTTEN BATTLE NETFLIX

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A solid World War 2 drama that tells the little-known story of the 1944 Battle of the Scheldt in which the Allies engaged in a muddy fight to remove the Germans from the banks of the Scheldt River to free up the port of Antwerp. Focusing the action on the intersection of the lives of one Dutch family, a stranded glider pilot and a reticent resistance fighter, it’s an emotionally engaging recreation of an overlooked slice of the European war.

MY NAME — NETFLIX

A grim and thrilling Korean drama series in which the outcast daughter of a gangster embarks on a quest for revenge after her father is murdered. That quest may get her what she’s looking for but will also send her down a dark and twisting path that puts her in the middle of a vicious battle between organised crime and the police.