Alan Dee’s guide to new film releases: The Woman In Black, The Muppets, The Vow

SO, Daniel Radcliffe, you’ve got millions in the bank thanks to that lengthy stint as H. Potter, boy sorcerer of this parish, but you yearn to be taken seriously as an actor.

You’ve paid you dues on the stage, and now you want to start putting Hogwarts behind you.

But maybe starring in The Woman In Black, a period ghost story which features elegant costumes and the supernatural isn’t a huge leap.

Our fresh-faced hero is a young lawyer who has to head north to a remote house where affairs need putting in order.

After a series of terrifying apparitions he uncovers the village’s dark and tragic history and finds out that children are dying under mysterious circumstances.

Top screenwriter Jane Goldman has adapted Susan Hill’s timeless ghost story – also a long-running West End hit – and Eden Lake director James Watkins calls the shots. It wants to be creepy, but the memory of Harry does get in the way a bit.

> There are dependable laughs to be had in The Muppets, in which the TV puppet back return for their first big screen outing in a dozen years.

Kermit’s living in a mansion, Fozzie is scratching out a living as leader of a tribute troupe and Miss Piggy is working for Vogue in Paris.

But when evil oil tycoon Chris Cooper plans to demolish their old theatre, the gang gets back together for a telethon.