MONSTERS VS ALIENS Tomorrow, BBC1, 3.35pm

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SPLIT

Tonight, Channel 4, 9pm

TANTALISING psychological thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan. Popular high school student Claire Benoit (Haley Lu Richardson) celebrates her birthday with classmates, including best friend Marcia (Jessica Sula) and creepy outcast Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy). On the way home, a socially awkward misfit called Kevin Crumb (James McAvoy) overpowers Claire’s father (Neal Huff) and kidnaps the girls, spiriting them away to a bunker. The hostages discover that Kevin exhibits 23 distinct personalities, including a germ-phobic brute called Barry, a clucky British mother hen called Patricia and a nine-year-old boy called Hedwig.

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ANIMATED action adventure. When a meteorite lands on Susan Murphy, (voiced by Reese Witherspoon), pictured, she grows to 49ft 11in tall. Susan is herded to a secure military facility where she meets fellow captives. When alien Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson) plots to destroy mankind, President Hathaway (Stephen Colbert) orders that the monsters be set free to take on the invader.

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PHONE BOOTH

Monday, Paramount Network, 9pm

WHEN smooth-talking Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) answers an apparently random call in a public phone booth, he becomes locked in conversation with a dangerous psychopath who threatens to kill him if he hangs up. But the death of a bystander leads police to wonder what Stu’s doing in the phone booth and why he won’t leave. It soon turns out the call may not have been so random after all.

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ENCHANTED Tuesday, 5STAR, 7.50pm

FANTASY comedy. In the animated kingdom she calls home, Giselle (voiced by Amy Adams) is poised to marry Prince Edward (James Marsden), only for his mother (Susan Sarandon), to push the bride-tobe down a well. Giselle (now flesh and blood, and played by Adams, pictured) emerges in New York City, where she meets dishy lawyer Robert (Patrick Dempsey) and his daughter Morgan (Rachel Covey).

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THE LAST STAND Wednesday, Film4, 9pm

RAY OWENS (Arnold Schwarzenegger, pictured) is the sheriff of a sleepy town on the US-Mexico border. News filters through that drugs kingpin Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega) has escaped FBI custody and is heading south with Agent Ellen Richards (Genesis Rodriguez) as a hostage. While lead agent John Bannister (Forest Whitaker) and his team race to the scene, Ray rallies his troops.

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THE LADYKILLERS Thursday, Film4, 5pm

CLASSIC Ealing comedy with a first-rate cast including Alec Guinness (pictured), Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom and Katie Johnson. A criminal gang rents rooms from an elderly woman in order to plan its latest heist. The criminals fear that she poses a threat to their scheming, and realise they are going to have to kill her. However, bumping her off proves a lot more difficult than they expected.

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A LATE QUARTET Friday, BBC2, 11.45pm

AGEING cellist Peter (Christopher Walken, pictured), is diagnosed with early-stage Parkinson’s disease and elects to retire from the classical string quartet that has been his surrogate family for 25 years. The decision creates friction between lead violinist Daniel (Mark Ivanir), second violinist Robert (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and his violist wife Juliette (Catherine Keener) ahead of a final performance.