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The beginning of the year is always an exciting time for film lovers as a whole host of Oscar contenders hit the big screen.
And 2013 is no different as we have a string of very high profile and award worthy films coming our way over the next few weeks.
So we take a look at some of the movie that are not to be missed this January.
Gangster Squad - 10th January
The gangster genre is one that we don't see too much of on the big screen but Gangster Squad is set to change all that when it is released next week.
The movie is based on the book by Paul Lieberman and brings together one of the best ensemble casts of 2013.
The cast is led by Josh Brolin while Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Sean Penn and Anthony Mackie are all set to star as the police go to war against the gangster of LA.
The movie follows the lengths that the LAPD go to in the 1940s and 50s to keep East Coast Mafia types out of the city.
If you like the L.A. noire genre then this could well be the film for you as it is unlike anything else on the screen this month.
Les Misérables - 11th January
If there is one movie that I am super excited about this January then is it Les Misérables as the popular stage musical is brought to the big screen.
We haven't seen Tom Hooper in the director's chair since his Oscar success with The King's Speech but now he is back... and he has another hit on his hands.
Critics in the States have been raving about Les Mis and the movie has already bagged a whole host of Golden Globe nominations and is expected to pick up a few Oscar nods as well.
January really is the month of the great ensemble cast as Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen are all set to show us what they have got.
Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France,Les Misérables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption - a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit.
Django Unchained - 18th January
A Quentin Tarantino movie is always something to get excited about and he is back with Django Unchained - his first film since the success of Inglourious Basterds.
This time around Tarantino gives a nod to the Western genre for the first time as Django Unchained is like nothing we have seen for the director before.
With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
The movie sees him work with Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio for the very first time while Christoph Waltz and Samuel L. Jackson are back on the cast list.
Django Unchained has already picked up Golden Globe nominations and could well be an Oscar contender.
Lincoln - 25th January
If there is one movie that there is plenty of Oscar hype around then it is Lincoln as Steven Spielberg returns to the director's chair.
Spielberg teams up with Daniel Day Lewis to look at the last few years of Lincoln's life as he tries to bring slavery and the civil war to an end.
The movie has enjoyed success at the U.S. box office and critics have been falling over themselves to praise the film and the central performance by Lewis.
He is joined on the cast list by Sally Field, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones and David Strathairn.
Lincoln is the favourite to sweep both the Golden Globes and the Oscars and promises to be a movie not to miss.
Zero Dark Thirty - 25th January
The Hurt Locker was the best movie of 2009 and deserved all of the praise and accolades that came it's way. And now director Kathryn Bigelow is back.
For the first time since the Oscar success of The Hurt Locker the Oscar winning filmmaker is back in the chair for Zero Dark Thirty.
The movie chronicles the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
Jessica Chastain leads the cast while Mark Strong, Joel Edgerton, Kyle Chandler and Chris Pratt are all set to star.
Zero Dark Thirty looks set to be another powerful war drama for Bigelow as well as being a major awards contender.
Movie 43 - 25th January
But if you are looking for something other than Oscar movies this January then Movie 43 could be the movie for you.
The film boasts the ultimate cast of 2013 as Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Emma Stone and Naomi Watts are just some of the names on the cast list.
Movie 43 is not for the easily-offended and contains jaw-dropping, sometimes shockingly disturbing, but always entertaining intertwined storylines you’ll have to see to believe.
So if you are looking for something a little different on the big screen this January Movie 43 could be just the thing that you are looking for.
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