PART ONE

Here's a look at some of the great movies on release next year, one for every week of 2013. Of course, some will end up being a bit shit and a few gems are bound to sneak in under the radar. But it's looking good peeps, it's looking good...

1/ Star Trek Into Darkness

I’m a Star Trek fan. Here is a new Star Trek movie. Of course I’m excited. A sequel to the brilliant 2009 reboot, this has JJ Abrams returning to direct and a sinister Bennedict Cumberbatch on villain duties. The first 10 minutes currently previewing in IMAX theatres is enormous fun suggesting this is the one to beat in 2013.

2/ Man Of Steel

After a Bryan Singer’s 2006 Superman reboot was perceived to be lumbering and old fashioned, the can-do-no-wrong (in my eyes) Zack Snyder comes alone to give Supes a cutting edge kick in the Kryptonite. With Christopher Nolan producing and a fresh take by superhero mystro David Goyer on scripting duties, this might just be Snyders best work to date.

3/ Pacific Rim

Giant fucking monsters and giant fucking robots fucking fighting each other!!! How mint is that!?! While on the surface that might sound like Cloverfield vs. Transformers, this has the assured hand of monster-maestro Guillermo Del Toro behind the lens so expect a mindboggling reinvention of the Godzilla-style monster movie.

4/ The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

 

While I wasn’t completely blown away with An Unexpected Journey, I’d be a fool for writing Peter Jackson off. With the story and characters set up in Part One, the pace and intensity should pick up for a rollercoaster Part Two. Plus the ace up it’s sleeve; the Dragon itself!

5/ Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

 

It might have taken 8 years for co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller to get this sequel made but if it’s anything like the stylish, ultra-cool 2005 original, it’ll be worth the wait. Jessica Alba, Micky Rourke, Clive Owen and Rosario Dawson all return while we waited with baited breath to see who will be playing the Dame of the title.

6/ Django Unchained

Tarantino. Nuff said. The film’s been getting rave reviews, it’s ending up in the end of year awards nomination categories, the cast is superb and it’s a genre QT hasn’t played with before. But let’s face it, even if this was a single room tele-play with 2 characters, this would still be a must watch.

7/ Gravity

Children Of Men’s Alfonso Cuaron directs this contemporary science fiction drama of an astronaut (Sandra Bullock) trapped in a Space Station plummeting to earth while George Clooney at mission control tries to help. It’s using cutting edge animation technique to shoot the whole film in just a handful of takes, this might be the sleeper of the year.,

8/ The World's End

 

Reuniting Sion Pegg, Nick Frost and director Edgar Wright in the third of the much anticipated Cornetto Trilogy, it has our heroes embark on an epic pub crawl only for the apocalypse to happen along the way. Following Scott Pilgrim, Wright has proven himself a genius.

9/ Elysium

 

A future set, apocalyptic story from the director of District 9 which stars Matt Damon.

10/ Cloud Atlas

An ambitious epic of interweaving, inter-related stories spanning centuries from directors Tom Twyker and the Wachowski siblings.