First up this week is actually out on the 9th, the re-release of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, now in full 3D. We all know what this is, and I’ve said my piece on it. Let’s move on.

Friday releases begin with The Woman in Black, the period horror from Hammer starring Daniel Radcliffe. It concerns a young lawyer who travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman, who haunts the house he is trying to sell, terrorising the locals. This looks to be the beginning of Radcliffe’s post-Potter career, so it could be interesting to see how he fairs.

David Cronenberg returns with his latest, A Dangerous Method, a drama starring Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Vincent Cassel. Based on the book and play, it portrays the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud and how it would give birth to psychoanalysis. It’s Cronenberg, and he’s back with Mortensen. That alone gives me reason to see this.

Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum star in The Vow, a romantic drama in which a couple is torn apart after a car accident puts the wife in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, forcing her husband to try and win her heart all over again. Amazingly, this wasn’t based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks, but a true story.

Nostalgia comes knocking this week with The Muppets, where the old felt gang return when an oil tycoon wants to drill under the theatre for oil, and three Muppet fans set out to reunite the cast, save the theatre and bring them all back to the forefront of entertainment. There’s a lot of people really excited for this one, so this will need to be good, lest it break a lot of hearts.

More on the family movie front, Big Miracle is the drama based on the true story about a news reporter in small town Alaska who recruits his Greenpeace ex-girlfriend for a campaign to save a family of whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. Stars John Krasinski and Drew Barrymore.

This week’s classic re-release is one that it would be difficult to top in the classic stakes – 1942’s Casablanca. Humphrey Bogart is Rick Blaine, the American ex-pat who runs a club in unoccupied Africa in WWII, who discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo, a Resistance leader trying to escape the Nazis. Ilsa needs Rick’s help, but Rick isn’t sure if he can or wants to. If you haven’t seen this, get out and see it.

American Evil (a film from 2008 that’s only just something of a release now) is a drama starring Bradley Cooper. It concerns the lasting impact of the cultural genocide and loss of identity that occurred across the United States and Canada in the Native American boarding schools at the hands of the Catholic priests in charge.

Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu is a Hindi romantic comedy in which two strangers, an uptight architect and quick-witted hairstylist, on holiday in Las Vegas end up having too many drinks and wind up getting married. They then try to get the marriage annulled, though a friendship begins to develop over their attempts.

Finally, Girl Model is a documentary that looks at the modelling industry, following the complex supply chain between Siberia, Japan, and the U.S. The story is told through the eyes of the scouts, agencies and a 13 year-old model in the middle of it all.

Well, that’s everything for this week, folks. Enjoy!