January 2013: 5 Releases You Can't Miss

Check out the entertainment that'll kick off your New Year with a bang!
It's always a strange feeling to start looking ahead to a brand new year of entertainment. Yet here we are today, doing just that, with a host of brilliant new entertainment releases on the horizon. January is usually a quiet time of year, but thankfully here in the UK that's not the case, as a good multitude of US release dates were pushed back for us to help avoid the Christmas rush of goodwill and festive specials. Contained below, then, are five exciting new releases that you'll probably have heard of, with all the reasons you could ever need to go and see them.

Hopefully, you'll notice we've rebranded the 'Top 5 Most Anticipated Releases' list name as '5 Releases You Can't Miss', and that's just the beginning of a whole load of small-yet-important changes to the site's infrastructure coming in the year ahead. Without further ado, then, let's begin our look ahead to January 2013...
5. ZERO DARK THIRTY- In case you hadn't heard, Zero Dark Thirty has hit big in the States, already tipped for Academy Awards with its engaging retelling of the Bin Laden hunt. The first signs are looking very promising, and hundreds of overly praising critics in the US can't be wrong, can they...? (Friday 25th)

4. DEREK- Ricky Gervais' touching comedy-drama Derek came as a genuine surprise hit back in April 2012, so it's great to see the show back for its first full season on Channel 4. We know there'll be just six episodes, but all the same it'll be brilliant to see this emotive series back on our screens. (TBC)

3. ARROW- I could never have expected The CW's spiritual successor to Smallville to take off, and yet that's exactly what Arrow has done. Now, the show returns for another breathtaking run of episodes on Sky1, as the Green Arrow fights to keep his identity and mission a secret and the darkest days are yet to come...(TBC)

2. DJANGO UNCHAINED- This much-anticipated new spaghetti Western movie comes from the mind of Inglorious Bastards' Quienten Tarantino. With Christopher Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio on board, we already can know for sure that there's cinema gold within, and now it remains to be seen whether Django Unchained can be an early Film Of The Year 2013 contender! (Friday 18th)

1. LES MISERABLES- Can anyone fail to miss this megamoth project? Starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron-Cohen, Les Miserables is not to be trifled with, an intense musical film adaptation that features one of the greatest West End storylines of all time rendered the way it was meant to be seen, on the big screen and packing some of the biggest Brit stars around. Make this your mission for January viewing...(Friday 11th)