WAR HORSE Tomorrow, BBC1, 2.20pm

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THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR Tonight, Channel 4, 9pm

THE prequel (and sequel) to Snow White and the Huntsman sees scheming Queen Ravenna (CharlizeTheron) rule her realm in the south. Her kind sister Freya (Emily Blunt), falls in love with the Duke of Blackwood (Colin Morgan), and becomes pregnant with his child. Shortly after the birth of a baby girl, the Duke torches the infant in its crib, unleashing a wave of grief and fury in Freya that transforms her into The Ice Queen. She moulds an army of heartless soldiers, but two of them – Eric (Chris Hemsworth, pictured) and Sara (Jessica Chastain) – defy her by falling in love. Blunt’s solid portrayal of warped motherhood compensates for Theron’s campy theatrics.

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WHEN his drunken farmer dad Ted (Peter Mullan) sells his horse Joey to a young army captain (Tom Hiddleston), Albert (Jeremy Irvine, pictured) enlists in the army to track down Joey and return the horse to the farm. Meanwhile, behind enemy lines, Joey is captured by the Germans and embarks on a momentous journey.

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KILL BILL: VOL 1 Monday, 5STAR, 10pm

A FEMALE assassin (Uma Thurman, pictured) quits the profession to get married – only to be shot on her wedding day and left for dead. Four years later, she wakes up from her coma intent on revenge and sets off to wipe out her former colleagues. Her old boss Bill (David Carradine) is her main target, but she starts with underworld boss O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu).

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DISTRICT 9

Tuesday, Sony Movie Channel, 9pm

WHEN a malfunctioning spaceship lands in Johannesburg, the aliens are granted refugee status in a run-down ghetto. Official Wikus Van De Merwe (Sharlto Copley) is given the unenviable job of relocating the extraterrestrials, but in the process, he is infected with an alien virus. A superior sci-fi thriller, merges special effects with social commentary.

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STEP BROTHERS Wednesday, Sony Movie Channel, 9pm

BRENNAN (Will Ferrell) is 40 going on 14. He still lives at home with his mum Nancy (Mary Steenburgen). During a medical convention, Nancy meets Robert (Richard Jenkins), who has his own adult son at home – Dale (John C Reilly, pictured with Ferrell) – and embark on a whirlwind romance. Step-sibling resentment boils over when Robert and Dale move in.

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MAN ON FIRE Thursday, Film4, 11.15pm

EX-CIA counter-terrorist operative John Creasy (Denzel Washington, pictured) moves to Mexico City where he takes a job as a private bodyguard for nine-year-old Pita (Dakota Fanning). Creasy surprises himself by striking up a tender friendship with Pita, so when the little girl is abducted and killed, he makes it his life’s work to track down the men responsible.

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PULP FICTION Friday, 5*, 10pm

MULTIPLE storylines interweave in Quentin Tarantino’s hit movie, as characters from one thread bump into those of another, introducing us to a brutal Los Angeles milieu populated by gangster junkies, honest thieves and tender murderers. Low-rent hit men Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L Jackson), pictured, steal the show.