Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, John Bishop
Certificate: 15

Ken Loach moves from Looking for Eric to Saving Private Frankie with this bleak war-themed drama. Fergus (Womack) and Frankie (comedian John Bishop) were best friends. They grew up together, went to school together, shipped off to Iraq together. Not as soldiers, you understand, but as mercenaries with a security firm; a company making profit from the privatisation of Britain's war efforts (hello, political subtext).

Director: Paul Haggis
Cast: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson
Certificate: 15

"I'm Russell Crowe's Wife, Get Me Out of Prison!" doesn't sound like a film with much credibility. Indeed, Paul Haggis’ remake of French thriller Pour Elle occasionally lacks it in the script department, but The Next Three Days is surprisingly believable. If you can accept Russell Crowe as an English teacher.

"Show me where the bullets go!"

That's Russell Crowe in Paul Haggis' latest film. But don't worry, The Next Three Days isn't a comedy - Haggis switching tack from Crash and In the Valley of Elah would be way too weird. Instead we get a thriller, about a husband breaking his wife out of prison.

John Brennan (Crowe) has a lovely life with his wife and kid, until she gets banged up for a crime she didn't commit. So he takes action. Lots of solid, boring, legal action. But after three years he's had enough, so he decides to break in and get her out.

Adapted from the the French movie Pour Elle, Crowe stars with Elizabeth Banks as his incarcerated spouse, and Liam Neeson as a dodgy criminal type. Except lots of serious faces throughout, but hopefully a decent amount of excitement. 

The Next Three Days trailer is online over at Yahoo! Movies. Read on to see the full video.