10 TELLY FILMS

Man Down Sky Cinema Premiere, 12.35pm, Sunday

Actor Shia LaBeouf reunites with filmmaker Dito Montiel, who directed him to critical acclaim in A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, for this drama about a US marine struck down by post-traumatic stress disorder.

A tragic battlefield accident shakes Gabriel Drummer (LaBeouf) to the core.

Exodus: Gods And Kings

Channel 4, 9pm, Sunday

Almost 60 years after the release of Cecil B DeMille’s epic The Ten Commandments, Exodus: Gods And Kings attempts, with slightly mixed results, to update the biblical story for a modern generation.

Ridley Scott directs, with Christian Bale starring as Moses and Joel Edgerton as Ramesses II.

Let Me In

BBC2, 11pm, Sunday

Kodi Smit-McPhee stars in a surprisingly stylish English-language remake of the Swedish coming-of-age story Lat Den Ratte Komma In (Let The Right One In).

Matt Reeves’s version charts the extraordinary friendship between a boy and a vampire against a backdrop of paranoia and social change in Reagan-era America.

Seven Years In Tibet Film4, 6.20pm, Monday

Mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (Brad Pitt) leaves his pregnant wife to fend for herself while he takes on the Himalayan peak of Nanga Parbat, only to end up in a British POW camp, before escaping to Tibet.

Weighty running time gives the drama enough room to breathe.

Shane Film4, 4.30pm, Tuesday

George Stevens’s film may seem simplistic to cynical modern viewers – it’s the sort of film where the hero wears white and the villain is in black - but it’s also more emotionally involving than any number of later, ‘revisionist’ Westerns.

Alan Ladd is fine as Shane, but is often upstaged by the great supporting cast.

Gladiator Film4, 9pm, Tuesday

British director Ridley Scott collected five Oscars including Best Picture for this muscular and gore-laden sword and sandals epic.

The hero of the day is Maximus (Russell Crowe), a general in the army of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris), with Joaquin Phoenix as conniving heir to the throne Commodus.

Stoker Film4, 11.40pm, Wednesday

South Korean director Park Chan-wook makes his impressive English-language debut with this gothic fairytale.

Mia Wasikowska is mesmerising as sullen teenager India Stoker, whose father perishes in a freak car accident.

Chan-wook chronicles his reclusive heroine’s journey of self-discovery.

Oblivion Film4, 9pm, Thursday

This post-apocalyptic thriller stars Tom Cruise as one of the last men standing after Earth is reduced to a radiation-poisoned wasteland by a pernicious race called Scavs.

The script lacks the impact of the breath-taking visuals, but the action sequences are very impressive.

Senna ITV4, 11.05pm, Thursday

Documentary celebrating the life of the iconic Formula 1 driver.

This Is England Film4, 9pm, Friday

Writer-director Shane Meadows’s compelling drama about skinheads in 1983. Newcomer Thomas Turgoose shines.