Inception star Tom Hardy has been cast in Christopher Nolan’s untitled Batman project.

At one point, drug smuggler Howard Marks was believed to control ten percent of the world trade in hashish. Following a long spell in jail, he wrote a best-selling memoir of his experiences as a twentieth-century pirate – and as if he needed to seem more devil-may-care and elegantly weathered, he’s now being played by legendary waster Rhys Ifans. Mr Nice is enormous fun that you don’t even need to be stoned to enjoy.

Morgan Freeman has been awarded the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award. Quite right too.

Pat Tillman was an archetypal all-American – a handsome and successful athlete who gave up a multi-million dollar football career to enlist after 9/11. His death in Afghanistan saw him become a national hero, but when it emerged that he had died as a result of friendly fire the government mobilised to block the truth of his death. This spectacular documentary tunnels to the very heart of the American establishment and will shock you with what it finds there.

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle has expressed an interest in resuming the top role for forthcoming zombie thriller 28 Months Later.

One of the highlights of this year’s Raindance Film Festival, Rebels Without A Clue marks the feature-length directorial debut of photographer and short-film maker Ian Vernon. Blending expert cinematography with dark humour and memorable performances, it may be the best teenage sex/drugs/stolen car film set in the Peak District that you ever see.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I will be screened in glorious 2D. Thank God for that.

23 years after his Oscar-winning film Wall Street inspired a generation of high-rollers and corporate raiders, Oliver Stone has reunited with Michael Douglas to bring us the next chapter in the life of legendary greenmailer Gordon Gekko – this time crossing swords with Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan. It’s perfectly adequate when judged on its own merits, but as a follow-up to its extraordinary predecessor it leaves much to be desired.

Best For Film pitched up at the very end of this year’s London Spanish Film Festival to watch a deeply odd film about the life, love and constant petty theft of an enormous Spanish prostitute. Watch Mónica del Raval if you enjoy racist subtitles, chicken and chips and/or sweeping statements about geographically standardised penis size.

Oz the Great and Powerful, the forthcoming Disney prequel to The Wizard of Oz, will be directed by Evil Dead supremo Sam Raimi.