The Comedian | Byzantium | The Big Wedding | Populaire | The Purge | Blood | Everybody Has A Plan | No One Lives | Man To Man | Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
**The Comedian** *
*(15) (Tom Shkolnik, 2012, UK) Edward Hogg, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. 79 mins**
There's an uncanny degree of naturalism to this downbeat sketch of a lost London soul, confused over his sexuality, his faltering stand-up career and his place in life. It was made with a Dogme-like set of rules encouraging spontaneous improvisation in real locales. The result is somewhere between Mike Leigh and mumblecore, a meandering slice of life that often hits the truth.
**Byzantium** *
*(15) (Neil Jordan, 2013, UK/US/Ire) Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley. 118 mins**
There might be little left to say about vampires, but genre veteran Jordan has a better right (and better actors) than most to say it. This tale of two 200-year-old women hiding out in a coastal town is more mature and less gory than most offerings.
**The Big Wedding** *
*(15) (Justin Zackham, 2013, US) Robert De Niro, Katherine Heigl. 89 mins**
The bigger they are, the harder they are to laugh at in this formulaic wedding farce, whose flatlining gags and crass stereotypes give lazy Hollywood remakes of French romcoms a bad name.
**Populaire** *
*(12A) (Régis Roinsard, 2012, Fra) Déborah François, Romain Duris. 111 mins**
A secretary's lightning typing skills whisk her to competitive fame and potential romance with her boss in this lightweight French comedy.
**The Purge** *
*(15) (James DeMonaco, 2013, US) Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Adelaide Kane. 85 mins**
A home-invasion thriller built on the shaky premise of an annual America-wide criminal free-for-all, an unfeasibly short-sighted policy that at least benefits film-makers looking for a novel twist.
**Blood** *
*(15) (Nick Murphy, 2012, UK) Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham, Mark Strong. 88 mins**
A murder investigation leads two police brothers to cross the line, then cross each other, in this adaptation of TV drama Conviction. The small-screen origins show, but the cast is solid and the moral conundrum juicy.
**Everybody Has A Plan** *
*(15) (Ana Piterbarg, 2012, Arg/Spa/Ger) Viggo Mortensen, Soledad Villamil. 118 mins**
A double, Spanish-speaking role for Mortensen in this moody Argentinian noir, playing a trapped city doctor who assumes the identity of his rural twin brother, and inherits his shady criminal past.
**No One Lives** *
*(18) (Ryuhei Kitamura, 2012, US) Luke Evans, Adelaide Clemens, Derek Magyar. 86 mins**
A gang of backwoods hicks kidnap the wrong couple in this genre-mashing horror-thriller; less a proper story than a gleefully gruesome game of cat and mouse.
**Man To Man *
*(18) (John Maybury, 1992, UK) Tilda Swinton. 72 mins**
Pre-Orlando Swinton plays a German woman who poses as her dead husband in this film version of a one-woman/man play.
**Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani** *
*(PG) (Ayan Mukherjee, 2013, Ind) Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Aditya Roy Kapoor. 159 mins**
Thrill-seeking guy meets studious girl in a Bollywood romance.
*Out from Friday*
*The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone*
Shane Meadows documents the band's resurrection.
Out from Wed
*Behind The Candelabra*
Fresh from Cannes, Michael Douglas's triumphant Liberace turn.
*After Earth*
Will and Jaden Smith play father and son stuck on our post-apocalyptic planet.
*Thérèse Desqueyroux*
Audrey Tautou plays an unhappily married woman in 1920s France (pictured).
*The Iceman*
Michael Shannon stars alongside Winona Ryder, playing an assassin masquerading as a family man.
*Come As You Are*
Three disabled Belgian men travel to Spain in search of sexual gratification.
*009 Re: Cyborg*
Superhero-like cyborgs save the Earth in this Japanese anime.
*The Last Exorcism: Part II*
Cash-in sequel to the hit 2010 possession horror.
*Aguirre, Wrath Of God*
Vintage Herzog, with Klaus Kinski as a megalomaniac conquistador with very poor man-management skills.
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**The Comedian** *
*(15) (Tom Shkolnik, 2012, UK) Edward Hogg, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. 79 mins**
There's an uncanny degree of naturalism to this downbeat sketch of a lost London soul, confused over his sexuality, his faltering stand-up career and his place in life. It was made with a Dogme-like set of rules encouraging spontaneous improvisation in real locales. The result is somewhere between Mike Leigh and mumblecore, a meandering slice of life that often hits the truth.
**Byzantium** *
*(15) (Neil Jordan, 2013, UK/US/Ire) Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley. 118 mins**
There might be little left to say about vampires, but genre veteran Jordan has a better right (and better actors) than most to say it. This tale of two 200-year-old women hiding out in a coastal town is more mature and less gory than most offerings.
**The Big Wedding** *
*(15) (Justin Zackham, 2013, US) Robert De Niro, Katherine Heigl. 89 mins**
The bigger they are, the harder they are to laugh at in this formulaic wedding farce, whose flatlining gags and crass stereotypes give lazy Hollywood remakes of French romcoms a bad name.
**Populaire** *
*(12A) (Régis Roinsard, 2012, Fra) Déborah François, Romain Duris. 111 mins**
A secretary's lightning typing skills whisk her to competitive fame and potential romance with her boss in this lightweight French comedy.
**The Purge** *
*(15) (James DeMonaco, 2013, US) Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Adelaide Kane. 85 mins**
A home-invasion thriller built on the shaky premise of an annual America-wide criminal free-for-all, an unfeasibly short-sighted policy that at least benefits film-makers looking for a novel twist.
**Blood** *
*(15) (Nick Murphy, 2012, UK) Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham, Mark Strong. 88 mins**
A murder investigation leads two police brothers to cross the line, then cross each other, in this adaptation of TV drama Conviction. The small-screen origins show, but the cast is solid and the moral conundrum juicy.
**Everybody Has A Plan** *
*(15) (Ana Piterbarg, 2012, Arg/Spa/Ger) Viggo Mortensen, Soledad Villamil. 118 mins**
A double, Spanish-speaking role for Mortensen in this moody Argentinian noir, playing a trapped city doctor who assumes the identity of his rural twin brother, and inherits his shady criminal past.
**No One Lives** *
*(18) (Ryuhei Kitamura, 2012, US) Luke Evans, Adelaide Clemens, Derek Magyar. 86 mins**
A gang of backwoods hicks kidnap the wrong couple in this genre-mashing horror-thriller; less a proper story than a gleefully gruesome game of cat and mouse.
**Man To Man *
*(18) (John Maybury, 1992, UK) Tilda Swinton. 72 mins**
Pre-Orlando Swinton plays a German woman who poses as her dead husband in this film version of a one-woman/man play.
**Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani** *
*(PG) (Ayan Mukherjee, 2013, Ind) Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Aditya Roy Kapoor. 159 mins**
Thrill-seeking guy meets studious girl in a Bollywood romance.
*Out from Friday*
*The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone*
Shane Meadows documents the band's resurrection.
Out from Wed
*Behind The Candelabra*
Fresh from Cannes, Michael Douglas's triumphant Liberace turn.
*After Earth*
Will and Jaden Smith play father and son stuck on our post-apocalyptic planet.
*Thérèse Desqueyroux*
Audrey Tautou plays an unhappily married woman in 1920s France (pictured).
*The Iceman*
Michael Shannon stars alongside Winona Ryder, playing an assassin masquerading as a family man.
*Come As You Are*
Three disabled Belgian men travel to Spain in search of sexual gratification.
*009 Re: Cyborg*
Superhero-like cyborgs save the Earth in this Japanese anime.
*The Last Exorcism: Part II*
Cash-in sequel to the hit 2010 possession horror.
*Aguirre, Wrath Of God*
Vintage Herzog, with Klaus Kinski as a megalomaniac conquistador with very poor man-management skills.
**Coming soon**
*In two weeks ... *Can Henry Cavill cut it as the *Man Of Steel*? … Joss Whedon updates *Much Ado About Nothing *…
*In three weeks ...* Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reunite for *Before Midnight *… Brad Pitt v zombies in *World War Z *…
*In a month ...* James Franco, Seth Rogen and the Apocalypse in *This Is The End *… Steve Carrell is a force for good in *Despicable Me 2 *… Reported by guardian.co.uk 2 hours ago.