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SWISS ARMY MAN (15) „„„„ IT’S no shock to find Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe trying every opportunit­y to “de-typecast” himself.

But to take on the role of a farting corpse – washed up on a remote island and becoming a distinctly strange companion to its previously suicidal sole occupant (Paul Dano, pictured left with Radcliffe) – takes real balls.

It’s a move that pays off, though. This film is as weird and surreal as they come, but in its own unique way it’s also funny, uplifting and genuinely moving. SHAUN THE SHEEP: SPOILSPORT (U) „„„ SHAUN wants to play cricket, but the resident moles are furious about being disturbed.

That’s just one of the dramas facing our woolly chum and his pals in these latest adventures.

It’s good clean family fun, of course.

Hence the ewe certificat­e… THE PASS (15) „„„„ RUSSELL Tovey stars here as Jason, a Premier League footballer whose life takes a significan­t new direction on the night before his internatio­nal debut.

Seemingly out of the blue, Jason suddenly kisses his close friend and team mate Ade (Arinze Kene), with whom he’s sharing a hotel room.

For both these guys it’s a moment that’s clearly destined to have enormous consequenc­es. DON’T KNOCK TWICE (15) „„ LUCY Boynton plays a troubled teen.

She turns to her estranged mother (Katee Sackhoff) in a frantic bid to see off some kind of freaky witchy-type creature she’s somehow managed to p**s off.

This is a home-grown horror with some decently executed if rather clichéd effects.

But it’s undermined by the fact that the characters are too flimsy for us to really give much of a stuff about them. FOLLOW THE MONEY: SEASON TWO (15) „„„„ THIS acclaimed Danish drama, centred on the murky world of economic crime, returns for 10 new episodes, first screened on BBC Four.

Season two starts with what looks like a low-key probe into a bankrupt carpentry firm.

But the drama soon escalates into a massive investigat­ion into a major bank.

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