What you may need to know.

1. Video games have better trailers than movies these days.

2. It’s the new game from the people who brought you Halo.

3. The trailer’s directed by Jon Favreau, who directed Iron Man (2008) & Iron Man 2 (2010). Long way from Swingers (1998), baby!

4. Yes. that’s Giancarlo Esposito, AKA Gus Fring from Breaking Bad. We’re not worthy.

5. Destiny is one of the games coming to the forthcoming XBox One.

6. If you’re a gamer, GEEKGASM. If not, what the what now?

Release Date: TBC

What you may need to know.

1. Drug dealers = comedy gold.

2. Jason Sudeikis and Jenifer Aniston in her pants scored big in Horrible Bosses (2011). Now they’re BACK!

3. Who is Jason Sudeikis? He’s another Saturday Night Live comic trying to crack movies. He’s also engaged to Olivia Wilde.

4. It’s Ron Swanson!

5. It’s by the director of Dodgeball (2004), our Number One non-Anchorman go to big stupid comedy of the past decade. So we’re there.

Release Date: September

What you may need to know

1. Two Michael Douglas trailers in two days? That’s a lot of Mickey.

2. Woo! it’s The Hangover (2009) with pensioners.

3. Bobby De Niro got a lot of love for his Oscar nominated turn in Silver Linings
Playbook (2012). A one-off? We still can’t believe it’s been 25 years since Midnight Run (1988).

4. Kevin Kline? They should have gotten Crazy Christy Walken in instead.

5. All right, which one of them dies? Past form says its Morgan Freeman, with evens on Kline.

Release Date: November

What you may need to know:

1. After the longest farewell lap this side of Meat Loaf, Steven Soderbergh has officially retired. We hear he’s developing a TV show.

2. Soderbergh’s last movie was produced for cable TV bohemoth HBO. In Europe, it’s getting a cinema release.

3. BTC just premiered at Cannes. The reviews are rapturous.

4. Just a few years ago, Michael Douglas had stage 4 cancer. Now that’s a comeback.

5. The supporting cast includes Dan Aykroyd, Rob Lowe and Singing In The Rain (1952) star Debbie Reynolds.

6. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatt Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamon.

Release Date: June 7

1. File Under: No, Seriously.

2. Vin Diesel is still a movie star.

3. Dungeons & Dragons fan Diesel is using whatever juice the Fast & Furious flicks afford him to complete his trilogy of sci-fi epics, after splendid b-movie Pitch Black (2000) and its disastrous sequel, The Chronicles Of Riddick (2004). We admire his total commitment to Vin.

5. Vin Diesel isn’t his real name. That would be ridiculous. His real name is Des Diesel*.

6. Fast & Furious 6 (2013) is out now. It’s not as bonkers genius as the last one, but worth a trip for the ongoing homo-erotic tension between Vin and The Rock, plus a genuine WTF! moment during the closing credits.

7. Yes, he’s doing a Kojak movie next.

Release Date: September

* joke

What you may need to know:

1. Richard Curtis is back! Back! BACK! And his new Hugh Grant is… Domhnall Gleeson?

2. Domhnall’s 30, but he’d pass for 20 at a pinch.

3. It’s Groundhog Day (1993) meets The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (2005). Or something. Curtis was definitely inspired by his stint writing for Doctor Who.

4. That said, Bill Nighy… legend. He’s about to do two sequels to his TV spy movie, Page Eight (2011).

5. Suggested Alternate Title: Time Travel, Actually.

Release Date: September

What you may need to know

1. The final countdown has begun to the next phase in Netflix’s ongoing experiment to reinvent television viewing – this involves reviving the greatest cult sitcom of them all.

2. If you’ve never seen AD, procure the box-sets immediately. We’re still spotting new gags. Here are 53 you may have missed.

3. Fact: some people will tell you that Arrested Development is overrated. These people are wrong.

4. They’ve been talking up the return of Arrested Development for YEARS; can it possibly live up to impossibly inflated expectations? We’re already doing the chicken dance.

5. And yes, Bob Loblaw is returning.

Release Date: May 26

What you may need to know.

1. Now that’s what I call a teaser trailer.

2. There are only two people in this movie, and they’re both Oscar winners.

3. Last time Alfonso Cuaron made a movie we got Children Of Men (2004), a stone cold masterpiece and possibly the most under-appreciated movie of the past decade.

4. Man, Ireland badly needs a proper IMAX cinema.

Release Date: October

Watch here.

What you may need to know:

1. The World’s End reunites Simon Pegg and Nick Frost with director Edgar Wright.

2. It’s the third film in their Ice Cream trilogy, after Shaun Of The Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007).

3. It co-stars Paddy Considine – always a good idea.

4. Looks like a lot of fun.

Release Date: July