MONDAY

A Father’s Denial

(2016) PG

3.15PM, CH5

Sadie Calvano is the straight-A high-school teen who starts enjoying herself a little bit too much. Her loving father (Brady Smith) worries that she’s going overboard, and when she gets drunk, he fears she’s on a slippery slope.

Mission: Impossible

(1996) PG

8PM, E4

The 1960s TV show is brought bang up to date, with two members of U2 reworking its classic theme music. Tom Cruise plays betrayed agent Ethan Hunt (below), proving himself adept at undertaking the seemingly impossible.

Mr & Mrs Smith

(2005) 15 9PM, 5STAR In this lightweight comedy actioner, Mr Smith (Brad Pitt) and Mrs Smith (Angelina Jolie) keep a big secret from each other – they both work as professional assassins. Their rather mundane married life gets a major shot in the arm when each is assigned to kill the other.

From Paris With Love

(2010) 15

10PM, CH5

It’s hard to watch this film without fixating on John Travolta’s look – the shaved head and goatee take a bit of getting used to. He’s a CIA fixer sent to Paris on an assignment, where he works with Jonathan Rhys Meyers’s penpusher to untangle a messy knot of intrigue.

The Exorcism Of Emily Rose

(2005) 15 10.45PM, SONY MOVIE CHANNEL

This is not a full-on possession horror, but a thoughtful courtroom drama. Laura Linney (left) is the lawyer defending Tom Wilkinson’s Catholic priest after a young woman dies during an exorcism. (Freeview 32, Sky 323, Virgin 425)

Easy A

(2010) 15

10.50PM, FILM4

La La Land’s Oscar favourite, Emma Stone, is the magic that makes this high-school comedy happen. It’s a modern take on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, with Stone as an independent teen (left) who opens a can of worms when, for the right reasons, she lies about being sexually active.