While the Expendables franchise has united them previously, Escape Plan is the first genuine double-header between arguably the two biggest action stars in Hollywood history – Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. That may come as a surprise – they’re so often mentioned in the same sentence that it’s strange to think they’ve never co-headlined a film together.

In that curious “like-buses” way that Hollywood sometimes works, hot on the heels of this year’s Olympus Has Fallen comes another story about terrorists taking over the White House, and the poor, unfortunate hero who finds himself caught in the middle and having to save the day.

Richard B. Riddick has had something of a varied life on screens both big and small up to this point. His first appearance in 2000’s Pitch Black was a screen-dominating, career-defining performance in the middle of one of the most superior sci-fi B-movies since the turn of the millennium.

2 Guns is that rarest of things in the cinemas of late; a film without super-heroes; without the threat of global destruction; without the mass-marketing behemoth behind it and without a thousand trailers ruining all the good bits.

Kick-Ass 2 is, above all else, a frustrating film. It’s one that at times captures the frenetic, jaw-dropping one-two punch of comedy and violence that the first delivered, but one that all too often falls victim to its own attempts at shock.

While it may not have had quite the cultural impact of your Harry Potters, your Twilights or – more recently – your Hunger Games, the Percy Jackson & The Olympians young adult franchise managed a relatively successful transition onto the big screen in 2010.