A Good Day To Die Hard (15A) arrives to mark the 25th anniversary of the original Die Hard (1988), and while Die Hard 4.0 nudged John McClane (Bruce Willis) into James Bond territory, it remained good, clean, trashy fun, not least when Willis launched a stolen cab at a helicopter.

Halfway through this outlandish fifth instalment of the ‘Die Hard’ franchise, a Russian henchman scolds John McClane (Bruce Willis) for recklessness in the face of certain death.

ORPHANED when his mother dies, Boston teenager Ren McCormack (Kenny Wormwald) moves to a small Midwest town to live with his uncle in Craig Brewer’s remake of Footloose (12A).

‘The Lives of Others’ (Lions Gate, €24.99) is a terrific work of terror, paranoia and betrayal set in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

PAUL VERHOEVEN ditches his RoboCop past with Black Book (Tartan, €24.99), a remarkable war drama which finds the beautiful Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten) as the survivor of a Nazi massacre which has wiped out her family.