Happy New Year! Sorry it's a little late. Obviously we're back to work now, so to help with the post-holiday blues, I've decided to round up a selection of good stuff that should be coming our way in 2013 - just a few things that have shone through the avalanche of offerings.
In the movie category, there will be the usual sequels (Kick Ass 2, and Sin City 2 may have potential), and remakes - Carrie and Robocop both look to be getting worthy treatments, while Top Gun in 3D sounds like an awesome idea and the new Superman could be this year's Dark Knight. But there seems to be a recurring theme of apocalyptic events on Earth too, with some likely future classics in the form of Oblivion (with Tom Cruise) and After Earth (with Will Smith). Not so sure about Brad Pitt's zombie flick World War Z, but slacker comedy This Is the End (with Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, James Franco and many more) looks mysteriously hilarious.
There's also a large clutch of actors telling the stories of famous men: Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Douglas as Liberace (the press pics for that one are certainly worth a look), Bill Murray as F.D. Roosevelt, and Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs are all on the list.
Two traditional tales get a fantastical action-packed twist too, with Jack the Giant Slayer seeming rather more epic than I remember, and The Great and Powerful Oz telling the wizard's wondrous back story, with a cast including James Franco, Rachel Weisz, and Michelle Williams.
Of the trailers I've seen so far there are a handful that stand out - Baz Luhrmann's vision of the roaring 20s in The Great Gatsby looks to be as multi-hued and dazzling as one could hope. And I'm a sucker for films about magic or con artists, so the impressive stunts they pull in Now You See Me with Jesse Eisenberg, has already got me hooked.
