Well, I suppose it’s not the worst crop of movies we’ve ever seen in the middle of January. The fourth Underworld film, Underworld Awakening, hits theatres today and is likely to dominate the box office thanks to the return of Kate Beckinsale, but she will have to go head to head with Gina Carano in Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire. The George Lucas-produced WWII film Red Tails is also out this weekend but seems to be getting slammed by critics, along with the Oscar hopeful Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock. In select theatres we have Zhang Yimou’s The Flowers of War starring Christian Bale, Dante Lam’s The Viral Factor starring Jay Chou and Ralph Fiennes’ Roman revenge flick Coriolanus, plus a handful of documentaries including Frederick Wiseman’s Crazy Horse. What will you be watching this weekend?

• Underworld Awakening
• Haywire
• Red Tails
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (wide)
• The Artist (expanding)
• The Flowers of War (limited)
• The Viral Factor (limited)
• Miss Bala (limited)
• Coriolanus (limited)
• Crazy Horse (limited)
• Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (limited)
• Ultrasuede (limited)