Luc Besson continues to give actors past their prime a leading role in movies that he is involved with. Following Robert De Niro (The Family), John Travolta (From Paris With Love) and Liam Neeson (Taken – okay, so maybe he’s the exception!), this time around it’s Kevin Costner who gets to star in 3 Days To Kill, directed by Charlie’s Angels McG.

In Metro Manila we get to follow country bumpkin Oscar Ramirez (Jake Macapagal) and his family who move to the city after finding out that life in the rice fields isn’t paying off. But the city comes with its own set of dangers, something Oscar and his wife Mai (Althea Vega) quickly find out when they get chewed up and spat out shortly after arriving in the city. Things seem to be looking up when Oscar lands a job with an armored truck company but shady business dealings by some of his co-workers, make life in the rice fields seem like kids’ play by comparison.

Sooo… part of this movie’s marketing campaign is the claim that the producers of the Underworld franchise are responsible for this one. That does not get me excited. The fact that Kate Beckinsale isn’t traipsing around in this one in her skintight outfit is not exactly helping either.

There is a Cold War going on between China and the West in this British sci-fi flick and it has resulted in the deepest recession in history. In other words, shit is looking bleak. Governments are pouring money into a new arms race, trying to create the perfect weapon by turning wounded soldiers into killing machines. Kinda like Universal Soldier but without Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Good Ol’ Freda tells the – until now – untold story of the Beatles’ secretary Freda Kelly. She’s been with the band from the beginning right up until the end and as such she was the envy of thousands of girls, running the Fab Four’s fan club and working for Brian Epstein, the band’s manager.

Roman Polanski’s latest movie is a two-character play set almost entirely in a Parisian theater. A soaked through actress (Emmanuelle Seigner) bursts into a theatre, late for an audition. The director (Mathieu Amalric looking like a young Polanksi) first wants to send her away but then gets sucked/suckered into auditioning the leather-clad Vanda (Emmanuelle Seigner) for the lead female role. They then get drawn into an elaborate role-playing game that blurs the lines between fiction and reality.

Based on the best-selling novel by Jan Guillou, But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter is pretty much the Swedish equivalent of a James Bond movie. Following In the Interest Of The Nation, this is the second time Mikael Persbrandt stars as Carl Hamilton, an agent for the Swedish secret service.