HERE are some of the top films to watch on the box tonight.

Oblivion (2013) Channel 4, 9pm

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

Survivors have been evacuated to Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, leaving behind small teams to protect the giant machines that extract vital resources to power mankind's new home.

Drone maintenance officer Jack Harper (Cruise) and his partner, tech operator Victoria Olsen (Andrea Riseborough), are two weeks away from retirement when he rescues an astronaut (Olga Kurylenko) from a crashed space shuttle.

This gung-ho act brings the former Marine into contact with grizzled resistance leader Malcolm Beech (Morgan Freeman).

Rating: *** "It's a shame the script lacks the impact of the breath-taking visuals, but the action sequences are very impressive."

The Ring (2002) BBC One, 12am

Reporter Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) hears stories of a videotape, which supposedly kills the viewer exactly seven days after they have seen it.

Sceptical at first, Rachel soon comes to believe in the myth when her teenage niece (Amber Tamlyn) passes away exactly one week after seeing the mysterious tape.

Viewing it for herself, Rachel becomes aware of strange forces about and within her, and teams up with her photographer ex-lover (Martin Henderson) to avoid the same grisly fate.

Rating: **** "The Ring is a solid remake of the cult 1998 Japanese horror film, which successfully magics an atmosphere of choking tension and impending doom as Rachel races against time to decipher the tape's cryptic meaning."

Lay the Favourite (2012) BBC Two, 12.25am

Beth Raymer (Rebecca Hall) hails from Tallahassee and ekes out an unfulfilling living by shedding her clothes for beer-swilling punters in the privacy of their trailer parks.

Hankering for something more, Beth packs up her belongings and heads to the bright lights of the Nevada desert, where bookmaker Dink Heimowitz (Bruce Willis) introduces her to the thrills of illegal sports gambling.

Beth becomes a good luck charm for his co-workers, but as Dink gravitates towards his flirty protegee, their close working relationship exacerbates the marital malaise of his vampy wife, Tulip (Catherine Zeta Jones).

Rating: *** "Lay The Favourite is a comic caper based on a colourful memoir by journalist Beth Raymer, and Hall possesses a disarming ditziness as the heroine who discovers she is good with figures other than her own."