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

What you may need to know.

1. This trailer is definitely NSFW, and most other places. It’s rather gory.

2. Eli Roth is the dude who made Cabin Fever (2002) and the Hostel flicks. He also played The Bear Jew in Inglorious Basterds (2011). And made the trailer (but not the film) for Thanksgiving.

3. Roth produced and stars in this. He also has a new Netflix Series, Hemlock Grove, and produced the hilariously titled Last Exorcism Part 2 (2013). He’s moving into theme parks next.

4. Mass mayhem + splatter = box office gold.

5. If it’s this or The Impossible (2012), we’re going with the former.

Release Date: Summer

What you may need to know.

1. PONYDANCE! is a new Irish documentary, from Broadsheet faves Doris/Magee. Watch Doris/Magee’s Greatest Hits HERE.

2. It was produced for TG4′s Splanc! strand. TG4 rocks: it shows Breaking Bad and westerns on a Friday, and it makes Ros Na Run, possibly the most mental soap in history.

3. Ponydance are probably the coolest dance troupe in Ireland right now. Fact.

4. The second coolest dance troupe in Ireland are probably the Lords Of Strut – they’re in PONYDANCE! too.

5. It premieres at the Guth Gafa International Documentary Festival next month.

6. Declaration of interest: ‘Preposterous’, of this parish, once had a cameo in a Doris/Magee production. His finest hour.

Release Date: May 17th

What you may need to know:

1. Woah. Keanu Reeves directed a movie.

2. He knows kung-fu.

3. Keanu turns 50 next year.

4. He’s still talking about a third Bill & Ted movie.

5. His defining work of the 21st century so far is still Sad Keanu.

6. We love him.

Release Date: Possibly Never.