Film choice

Toy Story 3 (2010) BBC ONE, 5.00PM ★★★★★

College-bound Andy’s toys find themselves donated to a crèche, replete with savage toddlers and a dictatorial teddy bear (voiced by Ned Beatty). Essentially a prison-break movie, Toy Story 3’ s triumph is the fact that it’s as funny as its predecessors and also far darker. The scene in which they slide towards an incinerator is tense and Spanish Buzz Lightyear is comedy heaven. Prepare for the tears to flow, however.

Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) CHANNEL 4, 9.00PM ★★★

Ridley Scott’s Biblical epic, starring Christian Bale as Moses, goes big on spectacle but refuses to preach. The film pits brother against brother, race against race, and mankind against God – or perhaps Nature. At its core, it’s a story about two adoptive brothers, Moses and the Pharaoh Ramses (Joel Edgerton), but Scott’s refusal to mark out anyone as straightforwardly good gives it a different flavour. Sigourney Weaver and Aaron Paul also star.

Let Me In (2010) BBC TWO, 11.00PM ★★

Matt Reeves’s remake of the lovely 2008 Swedish vampire hit Let the Right One In, one of the most startling films of recent years, is missing the alluring otherness of the original. Relocated to snowy New Mexico and set in 1983, it follows Kodi Smit-McPhee as a tormented outcast who befriends an odd girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) in the next-door apartment who is revealed to be a vampire. Death and disaster inevitably follow.