Director: Duncan Jones
Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jeffrey Wright, Vera Farmiga
Certificate: 15
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If Hitchcock made science fiction, it would probably turn out something like this. Trains, romance, an unsuspecting male lead; it’s all delightfully North by Northwest, right up until the train goes kaboom. Eight minutes later, it happens again. And again. And again.

It's official: James Bond will return on November 9th 2012. EON and MGM have announced that the 23rd Bond film will begin production at the end of this year for the 2012 release date (the news broke over at ComingSoon.net). Daniel Craig will return as James Bond, with Sam Mendes as director. The screenplay's written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan.

Craig. Mendes. Bond. 2012. Ok, now you can run around and scream your face off with excitement. I already have twice.

Director: Paul Haggis
Cast: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson
Certificate: 15

"I'm Russell Crowe's Wife, Get Me Out of Prison!" doesn't sound like a film with much credibility. Indeed, Paul Haggis’ remake of French thriller Pour Elle occasionally lacks it in the script department, but The Next Three Days is surprisingly believable. If you can accept Russell Crowe as an English teacher.

Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (long-term writers for the James Bond series) have been left in the lurch since MGM's financial crisis has stalled 007's return. But the screenwriting duo have already got themselves another script to play with. One that involves terrorism, energy conspiracies and African tribes - business as usual, then.

Producers Michael Lieber and Walter Parkes thought up the basic plot, which involves West Africa's Taureg tribes, who live in a Uranium-rich area. Which obviously gets a lot interest from both major energy corporations and terrorist folks.

Into the fray steps an American anthropologist, who's trying to reach a former research subject in the Sahara, who is trapped by terrorists. Parkes explains the concept: "At its heart, this is an action movie set within a world that is morally complex, alluring and completely real - which is why Robert and Neal, whose work spans James Bond to John Le Carre, are uniquely suited to bring a project like this to life."

Before becoming a producer, Parkes was in anthropologist who spent time in Africa, so presumably the screenplay will be pretty accurate. Either way, it's nice to Purvis and Wade still in work. Even if they did write Die Another Day and Plunkett and Macleane.

Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Bojana Novakovic
Certificate: 15
Trailers

Tom Craven (Gibson) is a widowed Boston homicide detective. Having raised his daughter Emma (Novakovic) on his own, he thinks the world of her. When she returns home, everything is hunky dory. Until she gets blown through his front door with a shotgun. Cue gritty revenge thriller.

Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone
Certificate: TBC
Release Date: Friday 29th January

Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, twenty-four year old Emma (Bojana Novakovic), is murdered on the steps of his home, everyone assumes that he was the target. But he soon suspects otherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out about his daughter’s secret life and her murder. His investigation leads him into a dangerous looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder -- and to CIA operative Darius Jedburgh (Ray Winstone) who has been sent in to clean up the evidence. Craven’s solitary search for answers about his daughter’s death transforms into an odyssey of emotional discovery and redemption.