Danny Boyle’s brought us everything from drug addicts in Edinburgh to horror in space. So, with 127 Hours he’s now adding true life ‘action’ drama to his catalogue.

An animated version of Shakespeare’s oft re-told classic tale mixes garden gnomes, a cast of British stars with the back catalogue of Elton John.

Wesley Wales Anderson (or just Wes to his friends) brings us this slice of 1960’s Americana following the trials and trails of star-crossed lovers Sam and Suzy.

Action franchises are often fraught with difficulties (witness Matrix Revolutions and Speed II as just two examples). So, no matter the pedigree of the director (Christopher Nolan) and his ability to produce cerebral action films, there was always a chance that Dark Knight Rises could be a Batman film too far.

12 hours, two cans of Red Bull, no sleep (aside from one power nap) and two bathroom breaks later and 3OW is walking out onto Leicester Square at 8am on a cold February Sunday morning. So what gives? What would drive a person to push the limits of human endurance?

Dakota Fanning skips over the Atlantic and picks up a near-perfect English accent on the way in this saccharine-light portrayal of a young girl looking to make the most of what is left of her short life.

With the amount of documentaries being made each year now - thankfully - numbering in the eighties, 'Let the Fire Burn' has plenty of competition vying for documentary fans’ attention at the local multiplex.

After 31 years together, Kay (Meryl Streep) is having nagging doubts about her marriage to uber-grouch Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) and manages to get him on a plane to visit a marriage counsellor (Steve Carell) in (you’ve guessed it) Hope Springs

Naomi Watts, Tom Holland and Ewan McGregor struggle to stay alive and keep their family together during the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami.

One of the country’s most revered and (sometimes) reviled film reviewers opens up about his life and love of film and, how sometimes, life is stranger than fiction.

Emma Stone is definitely an actress to keep your eye on. Having cut her ‘comedy’ teeth early with supporting roles in Super Bad and the excellent Zombieland, she now moves on to this lead role – and boy does she deliver!

London-born Director Asif Kapadia has created a stunning documentary on the life and untimely death of one of our generation’s greatest Formula One drivers – Ayrton Senna

The ever-likeable Simon Pegg (Graeme) and Nick Frost (Clive) team up for their third feature outing since Spaced to revel in this Sci-fi cross-US male-bonding roadtrip.

It’s May 1968. Temperatures and hemlines are rising but wages certainly aren’t for the ladies at Ford’s famous car plant in Dagenham.

I was lucky enough to be one of the first people in the UK to see it when it premiered at 2010’s London Film Festival and got a standing ovation. The momentum of the film began with it’s premier at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival and it continued to build right through LFF and then on to it’s UK release in early January 2011.

With Early Man not due to hit cinemas until 2018, but the teaser trailer already doing the rounds, what a great time to revisit three of the best from Aardman’s back catalogue.

Canary Wharf in east London was transformed into sun-drenched Californian beachside town Santa Carla when Future Cinema presented the modern 1980’s classic The Lost Boys.