httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gMQBss3UQE

What you may need to know:

1. Sawyer from Lost plays a burned-out basketball coach recruited to head up a US breakdancing crew in a bid for the world championships. Do you think they’ll win?

2. It’s in 3-D!

3. It co-stars Josh from Drake & Josh! We preferred him with the weight on.

4. Is this an elaborate homage to  Cannon Films?

5. Extra points for the ponderous voice-over.

6. That’s convicted woman beater Chris Brown with the blonde rinse. He’s got the whole menacing arsehole thing down to a tee.

Release Date (Ireland): Who cares?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwyG6BVz8e0

1. Yes sir, 50 Cent is still making movies, despite possessing no discernible acting ability whatsoever. Never stopped Keanu Reeves.

2. Recent Fiddy flicks include Gun (2010), Caught In The Crossfire (2010), Blood Out (2010) and Setup (2011). He’s a DTV playa, yo. Fact: at least two of these films co-starred Val Kilmer.

3. Freelancers reunites Fiddy with his Righteous Kill (2008) star Robert De Niro. That’s right, these days Bobby is taking second billing to 50 Piddling Cent.

4. It also features Forest Whitaker, in a moving turn as a man haunted by the fact that only six years ago he won an Oscar for Best Actor, and is now trapped in a shit straight-to-DVD movie.

5. Remember Jim Sheridan’s horrendous 50 Cent ‘biopic’ Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ (2005)? In retrospect, Jim should have gotten Daniel Day Lewis to play Fiddy, a la Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder (2008).

6. Is Fiddy the next Don King? Fact: he’s been shot so many times, his neck’s as hard as a jockey’s bollocks.

Release Date (Ireland): We estimate Xtravision shelves by September.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ1O1vb9AUU

What you may need to know:

1. We’ve been keeping you up to scratch on the teasers for Paul Thomas Anderson‘s new movie. Here’s the first proper trailer.

2. Phil Seymour Hoffman has been in every P.T. Anderson movie save There Will Be Blood (2007). He’ll always be The Mattress Man to us.

3. That Joaquin Phoenix comeback is in full effect: he stars in Spike Jonze’s new movie about a man who falls in love with his iPhone.

4. The more Anderson insists the film isn’t about Scientology, the more folk suggest otherwise.

5. What do you mean you’ve never seen Hasslehoffman?

Release date (ireland): November 9.

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

What you may need to know.

1. Nicolas Cage is the Ghost Rider, for real, only he’s trapped in b-movie hell.

2. Cage movies have increasingly generic titles these days: Trespass (2011), Justice (2011), Stolen. Even we can’t tell the difference between Next (2007) and Knowing (2009).

3.Co-star Josh Lucas was supposed to be the new Matthew McConaughey. How’s that working out?

4. Lucas appears to be playing the role Nick Cage would have played back when he wasn’t sleep-walking through one shit film after another.

5. Even Danny Houston can’t liven this bird up, and we do love Danny Houston.

6. Back in the day, Stolen director Simon West and Cage did Con Air (1997). We’d still go a sequel. Wonder if Colm Meaney’s available?

7. Fact: at the 1’30 point, this movie turns into an even WORSE movie.

8. The Big Question: Jesus… Exactly how big is that tax bill he’s trying to pay off?

Release Date (Ireland): Xtravision by Halloween, we reckon.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozgZvg3cggE

What you may need to know.

1. Daniel Craig’s first Bond flick, Casino Royale (2006), was superb.

2. Daniel Craig’s second Bond flick, Quantum Of Solace (2008), was rubbish. They blame this on the 2007/08 Hollywood Writer’s Strike of 2007/08.

3. Skyfall is directed by Sam Mendes. Fact: no American has ever directed a Bond flick. Chris Nolan says he’d like to do one. Snap him up.

4. The cast includes Ralph Fiennes, Javier Bardem, Albert Finney and Ben Whishaw as Q.

5. The script was co-written by Patrick Marber. You might know him better as Peter O’Hanrahanrahan.

6. If they can’t get Adele to do the theme tune, they’re in trouble.

Release date (Ireland): November 9.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM8UgLLcAaM

What you may need to know.

1. Roscommoner Chris O’Dowd is a movie star now.

2. Just to prove it, here he is getting off with Hellboy.

3. Frankie Go Boom premiered at SXSW earlier this year to a mixed response. Truth be told, we’re getting a bang of straight to DVD off it.

4. That said, his movie career is in rude health. He’s in the next Judd Apatow movie, and his Aussie comedy The Sapphires was snapped up by Harvey Weinstein at Cannes. Here‘s the trailer.

5. Chances of another series of The IT Crowd? Unlikely.

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

What you may need to know:

1. It’s been a long time since Tim Burton rocked our world, but hey –
we’ll always have Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Edward
Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), Mars Attacks (1996) and his Batman flicks.

2. Now he’s getting his Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) on once more with
an animated remake of his 1984 live-action short film.

3. The voice cast features Burton faves Winona Ryder, Martin Landau,
Catherine O’Hara and Christopher Lee. Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham
Carter are notable by their absences.

Release date (Ireland): October 5

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC4GlNAD5ZA

What you may need to know:

1. Grabbers (2012) is an Irish creature feature, made in Donegal, hai.

2. The cast includes Ruth Bradley, who’s goingto be a big star any minute now

3. And Bronagh Gallagher, who was in The Commitments (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994) AND Star Wars: The Phantom Men-arse (1999). Respect is long overdue.

4. We’re getting a bit of a Tremors vibe – always a good thing.

Release date (Ireland): August 10.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyywumlnhdw
What you may need to know:

1. Yes, it’s a prequel to The Wizard Of Oz (1939).

2. Anybody remember Return To Oz (1985)? That film was pretty messed up.

3. Haters gonna hate, but we still love James Franco. His entire career is one big art prank.

4. Director Sam Raimi will never make a better movie than Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn (1987), but only because NOBODY will ever make a better movie than Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn.

5. And yes, Bruce Campbell AND Sam Raimi’s beloved Oldsmobiles both have cameos.

Release Date (Ireland): March 2013.

Oz: The Great And Powerful (IMDB)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC2zbOwbeEs

What you may need to know…

1. Savages just opened stateside. No, it’s not a remake of the Phil
Hoffman movie.

2. After a string of MOR duds, Oliver Stone is getting his freak on
again. Dude is crazy.

3. Fact: No matter how many times he re-cuts it, Stone’s Alexander (2004) is
still total pants.

4. Nascent leading man Taylor Kitsch is zero for two after John Carter (2012)
and Battleship (2012). Dude needs a hit.

5. Only Benicio Del Toro could make that ‘tache work.

Release date (Ireland): September 28

Savages (IMDB)