While some of the movies that have graced the big screen this summer have been a little disappointing to say the least the movies on the horizon do look to offer us more joy.

Robert Downey Jr returns to a comedy role for his new movie Due Date, which sees him team up with The Hangover director Todd Phillips and actor Zach Galifianakis.

Peter Highman is an expectant first-time father whose wife’s due date is a mere five days away.

As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at her side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when a chance encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan–on what turns out to be a cross-country road trip that will ultimately destroy several cars, numerous friendships and Peter’s last nerve.

Helen Mirren is leads an all star cast of Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, Alan Cummings, Ben Wishaw, David Strathairn and Chris Cooper as director Julie Taymor brings Shakespeare’s The Tempest to the big screen.

In Shakespeare’s fantastical thriller the magician Prospero orchestrates spirits, monsters, a grief-stricken king, a wise old councillor, two treacherous brothers and a storm at sea into a fantastical conspiracy bringing banishment, sorcery and shipwreck into the lives of two hapless lovers to stir and seal their fate.

Here Prospero takes female form as Prospera, giving her journey of vengeance and self-discovery a wholly new resonance. As Prospera breaks her magical staff against an entrancing volcanic landscape at the end of her heroic quest, this poignant story of love and forgiveness translates into a riveting and filmic mystical tale, for our own times.