Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Marsan, Niels Arestrup, Peter Mullan
Certificate: 12A

Let’s face it. You don’t go into War Horse without knowing exactly what to expect. It’s a film by Steven Spielberg. About a horse. You’ll either leave the cinema bawling your eyes out or puking into the nearest potted plant. Spielberg being Spielberg, he manages a messy mix of both. Either way, bodily fluids will run. The only question is in what order.

Albert (an excellent Jeremy Irvine) has been brought up well by his parents. He’s a lovely boy, even if his dad (Mullan) is a wounded alcoholic and his mum a waste of talented actress Emily Watson. Between his pa's gimpy leg and their farm’s poor harvest, how can the family survive financial hardship and avoid being repossessed by the nasty local landlord?

Inevitably, the answer is: a horse.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Marsan, Niels Arestrup, Peter Mullan
Certificate: 12A

Let’s face it. You don’t go into War Horse without knowing exactly what to expect. It’s a film by Steven Spielberg. About a horse. You’ll either leave the cinema bawling your eyes out or puking into the nearest potted plant. Spielberg being Spielberg, he sort of manages a messy mix of both. Either way, bodily fluids will run. The only question is in what order.

Albert (an excellent Jeremy Irvine) has been brought up well by his parents. He’s a lovely boy, even if his dad (Mullan) is a wounded alcoholic and his mum a waste of talented actress Emily Watson. With his pa's gimpy leg and their farm’s poor harvest, how can the family survive financial hardship and avoid being repossessed by the nasty local landlord?

Inevitably, the answer is: a horse.

After its wonderful re-release in cinemas last month, Spielberg's dino-tastic Jurassic Park trilogy came out on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time last week - but we were too busy running around at the London Film Festival 2011 to bring you this important Jurassic Park Survival Guide.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Certificate: PG

It’s not 2D. It’s not in French. It’s not racist. For some purists, that means this isn’t Tintin. But while Spielberg’s cinematic outing is a travesty for grumpy diehard fans, it has a lot going for it.

Given Tintin's tradition of globetrotting adventures, the Indiana Jones director is a natural fit for a film based on the comic books. Indeed, he was once declared by the author to be the only guy who could do it - and judging by this colourful treasure hunt, he may have been right.

"There's a horse running about in No Man's Land..."

So speaks an army man (not a horse) to another soldier (also not a horse) while standing around the battlefield like a couple of human beings who aren't horses. Then, with a surge of emotional music, out rides... A HORSE.

Just look at that horse go. Galloping along as bullets fly past and explosions go bang. Trotting up and down the trenches in the face of death. Sticking its middle hoof up to the Germans and the Russians.

Truly this is one special horse. A miraculous little creature, who canters about doing his horsey thing while all around him all the non-horses die. If only we could be more like the horse, that noble, graceful horse of war. The war horse.

"BE BRAVE!" yells an army general, teetering on the edge of battle, sitting on a horse. I'll be brave for you, horse! I'll stick my hoof up to The Man! I'll stand tall as Steven Spielberg, Richard Curtis and John Williams conspire to turn me into a sobbing pile of - what's that? Oh no, I'm not crying. It's just raining on my face.

War Horse is out in cinemas on Friday 13th January next year. It's already riding into my LFF Surprise Film predictions list. Read on for the full video.

Director: John Madden
Cast: Helen Mirren, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Marton Csokas, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain 
Certificate: 15

A trio of Mossad agents kidnapping a Nazi war criminal and holding him prisoner in the 1970s? Not the usual plot you expect from a film, even if it is a remake of a 2007 Israeli movie of the same name. But the most surprising thing about The Debt? Sam Worthington can act. Like, properly act. With an accent and everything.

Jurassic Park is back in cinemas this week, one month in advance of the trilogy's release on Blu-ray in October.

That means you get to see Steven Spielberg's family monster movie classic all embiggened, the way what it was supposed to look like. But in the 18 years since 1993 (YES, YOU ARE THAT OLD), maybe you've forgotten quite how brilliant Spielberg's masterpiece is. Maybe you can't recall the family-friendly charm of a film with all the fun of an Indiana Jones adventure mixed with the threat of Jaws. Maybe you've repressed the memories of peeing in your pants as dinosaurs took over Isla Nublar, destroying cars, felling trees, jumping around kitchens and munching toilets.

And so we're here to help you remember the sheer spectacle of watching one of the greatest blockbusters of all time in a giant darkened room.

Here are 15 things in Jurassic Park that look even bigger on the big screen.

So this illustrated Indiana Jones map, detailing all 36 artefacts featured in the films (and novels, comic books, Young Indy TV shows and video games) as well as their locations around the world, was created by super-duper talented artist Matt Busch just in time for the 30th anniversary of Raiders of the Lost Ark. And it's a little bit awesome:

Sadly, there are only 255 of them and they've all sold out - a shame, because as you can tell from this nifty making of video, Busch has clearly put a lot of work into it. He even watched Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Bumhole.

A limited edition, Lucasfilm-endorsed, hand-drawn Indiana Jones map? All together now...

IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM

In case, like me, you've not been paying attention to t'internet over the past three days, you may have missed the Jurassic Park trailer that turned up last Friday. Yes, a new Jurassic Park trailer. Because Jurassic Park is getting re-released into cinemas next month in advance of the trilogy's Blu-ray release (that Back to the Future system obviously worked well last year).

Well, I finally got around to watching it this evening and, although it's 59 seconds of stuff we've all seen before, the key point is this: JURASSIC PARK'S IN CINEMAS AGAIN. I'm more excited than a velociraptor in a kitchen.

Steven Spielberg's classic will be stomping back into UK cinemas on Friday 23rd September ready for geeks, dinosaur lovers and Jeff Goldblum devotees to rush and see - and in the words of Mr. Goldblum himself, when you gotta go, you gotta go.

The Blu-ray release is on Monday 24th October, or something. Whatever, I just want to see those raptors open some kitchen doors on the big screen.