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Hatching a plan: Ben Affleck, left, and Bryan Cranston in the new film Argo based on a true story

Ben Affleck’s third film as director entitled Argo tells an amazing but true story set against the context of the Iranian hostage crisis.

Skyfall's eyefall: New Bond girl Bernice Marlohe with Daniel Craig's 007 in the background

Skyfall is the first Bond film to have a realistic chance of winning the major awards: best picture, director (Sam Mendes, who has already won for American Beauty), actor (Daniel Craig) and supporting actors (Judi Dench, Javier Bardem).

One for adults and for children: Refreshingly, Madagascar 3 does not contain one joke about flatulence

This time round, much more attention has been made to the script and visuals. Many of the one-liners will make adults as well as children laugh, and there's lots of pace and energy.

Josh Radnor and Elizabeth Olsen star in Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts is an amiable, literate but prosaic U.S. indie movie. that can’t decide whether it's comedy or drama. The message is that life goes on, and you can never go back.

Overkill: Liam Neeson back on the loose in Taken 2

The second version of the Taken series is so similar to the first it's almost a remake.

Bruce Willis in Looper in Looper

Trying to explain the premise of this film makes my head hurt. Starring Willis as a hitman hired to kill criminals from the future who've been sent back in time to be assassinated.

Divorcing: Actor Russell Crowe and his wife Danielle Spencer have separated

Connoisseurs of unfortunate marital beginnings might like to note that only seven months after Russell Crowe married his petite sweetheart Danielle Spencer, he was snapped enjoying a night out in a German strip bar.

Double agents: Daniel Craig as Bond in Skyfall, left, and Roger Moore, right, in his last Bond film A View To Kill with Tanya Roberts in 1985

To coincide with Skyfall and 50 years of Bond on-screen, Roger Moore has written a book about the films with a wit as dry as the martinis Bond drinks.