http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhIgou4dcL0

What you may need to know:

1. The clip is NSFW.

2. Movie 43 is a sketch comedy movie, in the spirit of Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) and our own personal favourite, Amazon Women On The Moon (1987).

3. Directors include a Farrelly brother, James ‘Super’ Gunn, Bob ‘Better Call Saul’ Odenkirk and Hunger Games/30 Rock star Elizabeth Banks.

4. The cast includes Johnny Knoxville, Anna Faris, Seann William Scott, Hugh Jackman, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Halle Berry, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Kate Bosworth, Kate Winslet, Terrence Howard, Liev Schreiber, Elizabeth Banks, Justin Long, Kristen Bell, Patrick Warburton, Josh Duhamel, Jason Sudeikis, Chloe Grace Moretz, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jack McBrayer, Kieran Culkin and Chris Pratt.

5. Loving Gerard Butler as a psychotic leprechaun @ ’40.

6. We’ve never watched a Richard Gere movie on purpose. But might be willing to make an exception.

Release Date: January 2013 (US)

What you may need to know:

1. Charlie Is My Darling is the ‘lost’ Rolling Stones movie, shot on a two day tour of Ireland in September 1965 and rarely seen since. It’s being exhumed on DVD for the band’s 50th anniversary.

2. The Stones didn’t play Ireland again until Slane in 1982 (supported by J. Geils Band, George Thorogood and The Destroyers and, you guessed it, The Chieftains), then two shows in The Point in 2003 and Slane again in 2007.

3. The other great lost Stones movie, Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues, remains officially M.I.A. save the occasional gallery – no, wait, it’s on YouTube.

Release Date: November 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqQg6Rlt6W4

What you may need to know.

1. ‘From the director of Horrible Bosses… And a producer of Ted’.

2. We LOVE Jason Bateman, an actor with impeccable comedy chops that Hollywood keeps putting in shit sandwitches like The Switch (2010) and The Change-Up (2011). Thankfully, he’s got that Arrested Development revival on the horizon.

3. Melissa McCarthy was the Oscar-nominated break-out star of Bridesmaids (2011). She also stars in the HILARIOUS sitcom Mike & Molly… Get it? They’re FAT.

4. That staple of American motion picture comedy, the swift knee to the nuts, occurs at 1’40. There’s got to be a thesis in there somewhere.

5. With slight tweaks, this could be a psycho thriller starring Ryan Reynolds and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Release Date: February 2013

Thanks Baz

What you may need to know:

1. Acclaimed Asian director Park Chan-wook did the classic Oldboy (2003), soon due an ill-advised remake from Spike Lee. Now Park is making his belated US film-making debut.

2. Nicole Kidman’s been associated with more turkeys over the past than Bernard Matthews; now she appears to be going through her Joan Crawford phase.

3. Name that face, Part One: Kidman’s daughter is fellow Aussie Mia Wasikowska, from Alice In Wonderland (2010) and Albert Nobbs.

4. Name that face, Part Two: Wasikowska’s creepy uncle with the excellent eyebrows  is Matthew Goode, from Watchmen (2009). Tom Cruise would have been a better choice.

5. The movie was written by Wentworth Miller, star of choice TV guilty pleasure Prison Break.

6. Forecast: promising, with the likeliness of scenery chewing.

Release Date: March 2013

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXVjeJ78nPs

What you may need to know:

1. Geekgasm: here’s an animated take on the trailer for the new time travel flick. The live-action version is here.

2. Looper could have been the title of an Irish version of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

3. It’s directed by Rian Johnson, who did Brick (2005) and the under-appreciated The Brothers Bloom (2008).

4. Looper star Joseph Gordon Levitt fancies himself as a bit of a new media mogul.

5. Bruce Willis is underrated. There, we said it.

Release Date (ireland): Friday

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What you may need to know:

1. MATT DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMON!

2. Promised Land reunites Matt Damon with director Gus Van Sant. Three Word Plot Summary: Good Will Fracking!

3. 00’58: It’s Jim from The Office! AKA John Krasinski. Damon and Krasinski wrote and produced this – the former was meant to make his directing debut, but bailed at the last moment and got Van Sant in.

4. That’s [Icelandic indie-folk six-piece] Of Monsters And Men on the soundtrack.

Release Date: December (US)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd0WkW5tUog

What you may need to know:

1. That’s right, this is the trailer for Ah-huld’s forthcoming autobiography.

2. Forget the new Zadie Smith and all those other girly-books – this is THE publishing event of da year.

3. He will be sharing many amusing anecdotes, like the one about the time he had a child with his family’s maid – and forgot to tell his family.

4. We’re holding out for the audiobook.

5. Ah-huld wants to record a voicemail for you.

Release Date: October

Related: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Doomed Comeback (DailyBeast)

What you may need to know.

1. Greetings From Tim Buckey is actually a biopic of cult singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, son of cult singer-songwriter Tim Buckley. Both died young, and tragically.

2. Jeff is played by Gossip Girl star Penn Badgely. Great name. The cast also includes the incomparable Bill Sadler and Kate Nash. The reviews have been decent .

3. Jeff Buckley only completed one album before his death. He is responsible for the definitive version of this old chestnut.

4. Useless random trivia alert: Jeff Buckley was once Glen Hansard’s guitar tech.

Release date (Ireland): 2013 (TBC)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9L3RWv_puU

What you may need to know.

1. Remember Tobey Maguire? He used to be Spider-Man.

2. Maguire is suffering from a spot of DiCaprio Syndrome, whereupon the adjustment to adult roles is hindered by the fact that the sufferer still looks like a teenager.

3. Maguire hasn’t been seen much of late, but he’s in The Great Gatsby next summer, and he’s planning to play Bobby Fischer.

4. The Details is a black comedy. How black? Pretty black.

5. Bonus points for original African American president Dennis Haysbert (from 24), Ray Liotta, and a killer last shot. How did they do that?

Release Date: November (US)

Thanks Barry H

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl1wsBb_kFs

What you may need to know

1. Man Of The Moment Chris O’Dowd is EVERYWHERE right now. He’s in the next Judd Apatow movie, the Apatow produced HBO series Girls and the next John Michael McDonagh movie for starters. Oh, and the second series of Moone Boy has already been given the green light.

2. The Sapphires is a feel-good Aussie musical, top-lined by Boyle’s finest – it’s been acquired by Harvey Weinstein for US release. He’s planning to go big with it.

3. The Big Question: So what did YOU think of Moone Boy?

Release Date (Ireland): November 2