Empire's Giant 2013 Movie Preview 185 films of next year profiled and explained

Tweet Assuming the Mayan-inspired doomsayers are wrong, 2013 is going to be a heck of a year for film. We have huge new releases all year long, from the high notes of Les Misérables to the high explosives of Iron Man 3 to the high drama of Zero Dark Thirty. So that you can prepare yourself for it all and stand ready to explain what's coming to friends down the pub, we've prepared a massively thorough, hugely sweeping preview of the films out next year that will be hitting your cinemas. Broken down thematically, here's what's coming... WORDS HELEN O'HARA

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Oscar Botherers The films that will be clogging up awards nominations and ceremonies. 13 FILMS	Documentaries What docs are going to be following in the footsteps of The Imposter and Room 237? 7 FILMS	Rom-Coms & Dramadies The date movies for the coming year. 7 FILMS	Horror 2013 looks set to be a busy year for things that go bump in the night. 20 FILMS
Straight-Up Drama A more grown-up sort of film: good stories about real people, hopefully well told. 12 FILMS	3D Reissues These fan favourites are back - and this time it's stereoscopic! 4 FILMS	Big Action Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Statham and the rest doing what they do best... 15 FILMS	Crime Thrillers Cops, robbers, hitmen and lawmen vie for our attention this year. 14 FILMS
Foreign Affairs The world cinema so darn good it's worth reading subtitles for... 9 FILMS	Indie Efforts & Brit Flicks The off the grid, under the radar films headed our way. 12 FILMS	Comedy Corner No pressure, but if you don't leave us in fits you have failed as a film... 13 FILMS	(Paranormal) Teen Adventures Wait, come back! Some of these look a LOT better than Twilight! 7 FILMS
Animation & Kid Stuff The cartoons and stories for younger audiences and parents alike. 16 FILMS	Fantasy Epics Here be dragons! Also witches, witch-hunters, wizards, giants, dwarves and hobbits... 8 FILMS	Superheroes & Comic Books The graphic novel heroes now appearing on the big screen... 9 FILMS	Sci-Fi Apocalypse Now Earth is in for a very bad year at the cinema... 11 FILMS

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