The Great Cinewise Preview of 2013

What follows is a list of the 100 films I am looking forward to seeing this year. These are films currently scheduled to be released in the UK over the next 12 months.

I am sure I will have missed a few of these films come December and they will likely to be replaced by films I either didn't pay too much heed to in January or films that I have missed completely in my initial census. Because some films have no confirmed UK release dates yet, I have opted to list the films alphabetically. I have also singled out the films that I am most looking forward to with a shining green star - the must-sees of 2013.

One final caveat - a few of these films have already been released while I was writing this, so ... go and see them!

Enjoy!

The Great Cinewise Autumn and Winter Preview

This was supposed to be a full-on preview of 65 films to open in the UK from the end of Summer (i.e. the last bank holiday) until around Valentine's Day 2013. But the god of procastrination is cruel, unforgiving. The more I laboured on the details, the obvious it became that it was a thankless task for me to finish it in a reasonable time. Also, some of the films that I was previewing were already making their way to screens around the country, which would have made this a futile endeavour.

The format, if you're the least bit interested, was to divide the said 65 films into 5 categories:

• Films that will serve as my waterboarding
• Films I will watch in my lifetime, but probably because of peer pressure
• Films I hope will prove me wrong and send me towards a vortex of shame, tears and, guilt
• Films I am likely to see in the cinema, but may pre-order the BluRay instead for a great night in
• Films I am spending sleepless nights over

It was going to be epic. Alas, it wasn't meant to be.

The Bru's Premature Take on the Cannes 2012 Line-up - A Prejudiced Preview

The line-up for the upcoming shindig on the Croisette was announced a couple of weeks ago. It is incredibly phallocentric. It is also somewhat safe, as always. But Cannes remains the crown jewel of all film festivals and this year (at least on paper) looks to be one of the stronger ones. In this premature and prejudiced preview, I will go through every film 'in competition'. There will be trailers (where available), brief synopses, and my take on their chances of tanking or triumphing. I'm not going to predict any winners, because I haven't seen any of these films - the festival will be the first time anybody will have seen most (if not all) of them. So, without further ado, here is the line-up for the Cannes Film Festival 2012: