Cycling with Moliere (15)

Cycling with Moliere (15)

Entertaining and erudite French comedy, sees Fabrice Luchini and Lambert Wilson playing chalk and cheese actors - one obsessive, theatrical and out of love with the entertainment business, the other a successful TV soap star in search of kudos - informally rehearsing The Misanthrope together, with a view to co-starring in the play. The fact that both have their eyes on the lead role doesn't bode well. And ego, narcissism and a beautiful Italian neighbour all conspire to thwart their prospects.

Tammy (15)

Much broader comedy is on offer from the US. Melissa McCarthy, who starred alongside Sandra Bullock in last year's girl-buddy cop comedy The Heat, is her customary aggressive and vulgar self, as a luckless working-class woman who decides to put her small-town life behind her and go on the road - with her gran. The fact that gran is played by the still-foxy Susan Sarandon, who starred in the definitive female road movie, Thelma & Louise, may rise one's expectations to a level that can't be met.