1. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is the Boxing Day blockbuster you've been waiting for. The fifth outing in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series stars Chris Pine in the title role, who follows in the footsteps of Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin and current Batman, Ben Affleck. Shadow Recruit is set in a parallel universe, meaning no matter how hard you try, you'll never be able to work out how it fits into Patriot Games or The Hunt for Red October, so don't bother. For 105 minutes of your time you get a top-notch CIA thriller set in a post 9/11 world, filmed in location in New York, London and Liverpool, which doubled as Moscow. Something about it being too cold and dangerous over there. Pine is capably flanked by Kenneth Branagh, Keira Knightley and Kevin Costner, who has already signed on for the sequel, Without Remorse. Christopher McQuarrie, the director of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, is thought to be at the helm.