One of the more ambitious projects in the history of global television, the "Up" series, done at seven-year intervals since 1964, has followed a group of men and women who were once British schoolchildren, and now in some cases have grandchildren of their own.

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away is a fine product to showcase the enchantment and amazement of a number of Cirque shows. The film is a "greatest hits" of sorts for Cirque fans, beautifully filmed under the direction of Andrew Adamson and produced by James Cameron.

Documentary-maker Amy Berg doesn’t do flashy – nor does she intrude herself into her films. She relies on news footage, straight-to-camera interviews and the steady accumulation of testimony. But – as her debut, 2006’s Deliver Us From Evil about a paedophile Catholic priest, made clear – there’s no lack of passion behind her sober methodology.

In Gus Van Sant’s new film, a salesman for a natural gas company (Matt Damon) keeps telling residents of a broke farming community that he’s not a bad guy. He’s not trying to take advantage of them, he says; he simply believes that the money they can make by signing away rights so his company can extract gas from their land could be their saving grace.

Hollywood labours with special effects to have us believe in monsters, space aliens and fantasy worlds, not always successfully. With Life of Pi, director Ang Lee has a simpler goal. He wants us to accept as real a computer-generated Bengal tiger by the odd name of Richard Parker. The request is simple; the effect is extraordinary.

Abbas Kiarostami’s last film Certified Copy – perhaps his greatest commercial success, thanks in no small part to the presence of Juliette Binoche – was the first fiction feature he’d made outside his native Iran. Like Someone In Love, named after an Ella Fitzgerald song that features in the film, is the second.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is fondly regarded as being the closest in spirit to the 1966-69 TV series that spawned it. Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) escapes the tedium of a desk job to join Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) on another space mission. While boldly going where no man etc.

There exists a rare species of obsessive moviegoer, the hyper-fan who focuses on one film, mentally and emotionally ingesting it dozens, maybe hundreds, of times. Along a certain parallel, there is also a serious breed of conspiracy theorist, compulsive in his or her beliefs, taking things far beyond just watching ‘Doomsday Preppers’ for fun.

Directed by Pablo Berger, Blancanieves is a Spanish silent film pastiche in the style of The Artist that updates the story of Snow White to 1920s Spain. It begins with famous matador Antonio Villalta (Daniel Giménez Cacho) being gored in the bullring, which causes his saintly wife Carmen de Triana (Inma Cuesta) to go into labour and die in childbirth.

See It Happened One Night, and one half of you will want to give Frank Capra’s effervescent 1934 screwball road movie a big old hug. The other half will want to slap it around the chops, tell it to stand in the corner and think about what it has done.