httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=790WryBlc3w

What you may need to know:

1. This is directed by David O. Russell, who got sent to Director Jail after an infamous viral meltdown then came back with The Fighter (2010). A hit movie cures all ills.

2. In roughly two Hollywood minutes, Hunger Games (2012) star Jennifer Lawrence
goes from being a spunky teen to a love interest for 37-year-old Bradley Cooper.

3. Is this the best gig Robert De Niro can land these days? Probably.

4. Note the presence of Chris Tucker in the wise-cracking best buddy
role. Tucker hasn’t been in a non-Rush Hour movie since 1998. Yes,
he’s annoying, but he rocked in Jackie Brown (1997).

5. We wish Bradley’s Hangover (2009) co-star Zach Galifianikis was starring in
this instead.

Release Date (Ireland): December

The Silver Lining Playbook (IMDB)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqK8Dt7CxUg

What you may need to know

1. This new Irish movie debuts tomorrow at the Galway Film Fleadh.

2. You may recognize leading man Sean Maguire from Eastenders. We loved
him in Meet The Spartans (2008), but don’t tell anybody.

3. Extra point for the Patrick Bergin cameo.

4. Double extra points for actually recognising Patrick Bergin, who now
resembles a bad-ass Old Testament prophet.

5. Random stuffed fox at 1’39.

6. Scots sitcom legend Ford Kiernan at 1’50. What do you mean you’ve
never seen Still Game?

7. We say: It’s Once meets The Hangover!

Song For Amy (IMDB)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtoM5O0eXvE

What you may need to know:

1. Yes, it’s the movie of the classic ’70s TV show.

2.It’s directed by geezercore maestro Nick Love, the filmmaker behind
The Firm, The Business and The Football Factory. We can’t believe he
didn’t give Danny Dyer a part.

3. Ray Winstone plays the John Thaw role, while rapper-turned-thesp Ben
‘Plan B’ Drew gets his Dennis Waterman on. It was originally meant to
be Winstone and Jason Statham, but The Stat was busy elsewhere.
Kicking ass, presumably.

4. Winstone had a role in the original Sweeney TV show, back in 1976:

5. Here’s the thing: if the original TV show has THE BEST THEME TUNE
EVER, you should probably use it in the trailer, you slaaaag.

Release date (Ireland): September.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK7y8Ou0VvM

What you may need to know:

1. Busy week for The Cruiser: he turned 50, is getting divorced and topped Forbes’ list of highest paid actors. OK, nobody went to see him in Rock Of Ages (2012), but he’s the best thing in it by yards.

2. Jack Reacher brings Lee Child‘s literary bad-ass to the big screen. The movie adapts One Shot, the seventh Reacher novel. Fans were up in arms at Cruise’s casting, primarily because Jack Reacher is 6’5 tall and Tom Cruise stands 3’4 in Bono heels. Or thereabouts.

3. Jack Reacher is written and directed by Chris McQuarrie, who won an Oscar for writing The Usual Suspects (1995) and directed the under-appreciated Way Of The Gun (2000).

4. Plenty of punters out there have issues relating to Tom Cruise, because of his involvement with Scientology, or just because, well he’s plain old creepy. Fair enough. He’ll always be Les Grossman to us.

5. While we’re at it, whatever happened to Tom Crooze?

Release Date (Ireland): December

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-1Y2i7ypOc

What you may need to know:

1. Quartet is the first movie directed by Dustin Hoffman.

2. Dusty was supposed to make his directoral debut with Straight Time
(1978), but decided to concentrate on acting in it instead. It’s a stone-cold forgotten ’70s classic.

3. Hoffman’s TV starring debut, Luck, just got cancelled owing to some
unfortunate on-set deaths.
4. Billy Connolly looks set to corner the market in randy/irreverent
pensioner roles.

5. Tom Courtenay is a legend. Fact.

6. Did we mention that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) just made $100M worldwide?

7.The only thing that could possibly save this movie: a Hoffman cameo, reprising his role from Tootsie (1982).

Release date (Ireland): January 2013

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPGLRO3fZnQ

What you may need to know:

1. It’s directed by Joe Wright, who did Atonement (2007) and Hanna (2011).

2. It stars Jude Law and Keira Knightley, but don’t let that put you off.

3. It also stars ginger screen idol Domhnall Gleeson.

4. It was shot by Armagh’s own Seamus McGarvey, who shot The Avengers and this Irish cult classic.

5. It looks like an elaborate homage to Ken Russell. And we mean that as a compliment.

Release Date (Ireland): September 7th