| Now that 2005 is over and everybody has revealed | | | | am a little bit more careful than usual. The teaser trailer |
| their top ten list (or at least a preliminary version of it), | | | | wasn't that hot, and the fact that Pixar has delayed |
| the time has come to start looking forward to what | | | | the movie to this year also does not bode well. |
| we will be seeing in cinemas this year. There's plenty | | | | Although, knowing Pixar, that extra time will have been |
| of movies coming, and to help you on your way, here | | | | well spent. I won't be surprised if this one ends up in 5 |
| is my yearly (only the second time, but still) Top 20 list | | | | star land after all.10. My Super Ex-Girlfriend |
| of coolest upcoming movies!20. X-Men 3 | | | | Luke Wilson must be one of the unluckiest guys in the |
| The second X-Men movie is still one of the best | | | | world. His girlfriend is a super heroine (cool!) but he |
| superhero movies of all time, but that one had an | | | | doesn't know (booo!) until they break up and she starts |
| ingredient that this one is lacking: Bryan Singer. What I | | | | using her super powers to get back at him. Yeah, I |
| have heard so far about Brett Ratner's ideas for the | | | | wouldn't want to be in his shoes either. Uma Thurman |
| franchise have not really made me enthusiastic, but the | | | | stars as the girlfriend.9. Black Dahlia |
| first teaser trailer was pretty cool. Let's keep our | | | | Brian DePalma returns with this slick thriller which stars |
| fingers crossed, hoping that Ratner will surprise us | | | | Scarlett Johansson. Oh, you want to know more? |
| after all.19. Click | | | | Well, it's all about two cops who try to hunt the killer of |
| Adam Sandler's movies are a bit hit and miss, but this | | | | a young actress. Next to Johansson, we will also see |
| one has a few things going for it. First: Kate Beckinsale | | | | Hilary Swank, Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart. This |
| is in it. Second: And so is Christopher Walken. And third: | | | | one looks like a lot of fun.8. The Da Vinci Code |
| The story is pretty cool, as it is about a guy who finds | | | | Were you sick and tired of all the Da Vinci hype |
| a remote control that lets him zoom back and forth to | | | | when the book came out two years ago? Get ready |
| moments in his life. Which is great, until the remote | | | | to be sick all over again when the hype for the movie |
| control starts showing a mind of it's own. Adam | | | | version starts! If you, like me, did like the book though, I |
| Sandler and high concept normally works pretty well, | | | | think you will be in for a thrillride, as Ron Howard |
| so this could be real fun.18. The Return of Zoom | | | | directs Tom Hanks and Audrey 'Amelie' Tatou.7. |
| Last year saw the successful teen superhero movie | | | | Casino Royale |
| Sky High, and this year sees another teen superhero | | | | The return of James Bond, but not as you know him! |
| movie. Tim Allen plays a worn out superhero who is | | | | The new Bond goes back to the early days of Bond |
| called back into action, to train a group of kid | | | | and will be stripped of many of the elements that |
| superheroes at a private academy. Yeah, sounds very | | | | made the Bond movies so successful in the first place. |
| familiar, but Sky High was a lot of fun so maybe we | | | | Let's hope they won't strip away too much, unless the |
| will be in luck again with this one.17. Mission Impossible 3 | | | | stripping involves the new Bond girl!6. Pirates of the |
| The most irritating man of 2005 (as voted by movie | | | | Caribbean 2 |
| lovers all over the world) is back in his high profile | | | | The first Pirates of the Caribbean movie was brilliant, |
| action franchise. But will it be a hattrick for Tom | | | | and everything points towards this second part being |
| Cruise? The first one was pretty good, the second | | | | just as much fun. Everybody returns, plus there are |
| one dissapointing, this one, being directed by Lost's JJ | | | | some cool new characters to add to the mix. And if |
| Abrams, could be a return to form.16. Marie Antoinette | | | | you cannot get enough of Captain Jack Sparrow and |
| The director of my favorite movie of 2004, Lost in | | | | his friends: this was shot back to back with the third |
| Translation, returns to the big screen with this stylized | | | | movie, which will be released next year.5. A Scanner |
| account of the life of Marie Antoinette, a simple girl | | | | Darkly |
| from Vienna who became the Queen of France in | | | | Richard Linklater returns to his passion for animation |
| 1774. A rags to riches story? Yes, although it is | | | | with this movie that is a combination of real life acting |
| unfortunate that she became queen only a few years | | | | and animation. Not in the regular sense though, |
| before all the French royals were beheaded... Sophie | | | | because in Linklater's movie all the actors are traced |
| Coppola directs Kirsten Dunst and Jason | | | | by animators, giving the whole movie a very interesting |
| Schwartzman in this.15. Benchwarmers | | | | visual effect.4. Nacho Libre |
| This movie, starring Jon Heder and Jon Lovitz, tells the | | | | The director of Napoleon Dynamite returns with this |
| story of a trio of friends, who try to make up for | | | | movie about a Mexican priest (Jack Black) who at |
| missed opportunities in their childhood when they form | | | | night dons the outfit of a lucha libre wrestler to raise |
| their own baseball team and start playing against Little | | | | money for the local orphanage. I don't know why, but |
| League teams. Could be this years Dodgeball.14. | | | | this movie just sounds like it could be the funniest thing |
| Happy Feet | | | | since... Well... Napoleon Dynamite!3. Lady in the Water |
| There's a swarm of cool CGI animated movies | | | | M. Night Shyamalan will give us some more of his |
| coming up this year, but this seems to be one of the | | | | own brand of movie making with Lady in the Water, |
| most fun ones. How can it not be fun: it's about | | | | starring Paul Giamatti and Bryce Dallas Howard. |
| penguins! About a group of singing penguins to be | | | | Giamatti is a landlord who one day finds a mysterious |
| precise. Our hero is a penguin cannot sing, which is a | | | | woman in the pool of his building. We don't know much |
| problem, because this is the way male penguins woo | | | | more about the movie yet, but with a Shyamalan |
| the females. Luckily though, he may not be able to sing, | | | | picture you don't want to know too much in advance |
| but he can tapdance better than anybody else!13. | | | | anyway. Sounds very intriguing!2. Superman Returns |
| Miami Vice | | | | Bryan Singer did great things with the X-Men |
| Just reading those words will make the tune to this | | | | franchise, and when you have the greatest superhero |
| classic tv-show stick in your head for the rest of the | | | | of them all at your disposal, what can go wrong? (Let's |
| day (you don't have to thank me). This might actually | | | | hope those words won't come back to haunt me...)1. |
| be a better TV-remake than most though, since | | | | The Fountain |
| Michael Mann is directing (him also being director of | | | | Darren Aranofsky will this year hopefully unleash his |
| numerous episodes of the original series).12. Eragon | | | | latest work, which involves romance and time travel |
| In case you are worried that there won't be a big | | | | and stars Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. A man |
| fantasy spectacle this year (Lord of the Rings having | | | | finds out the love of his life is dying, and he starts a |
| ended, and the next Narnia only coming out this year): | | | | journey to the fountain of life in order to be able to |
| rest assured. The next big thing is coming in the shape | | | | save her life...Originally published at Rijnders is a Dutch |
| of Eragon, another movie based on a book, in which a | | | | movie journalist with many years of experience. His |
| kid hooks up with a dragon and ends up in the middle | | | | weblog ( is read by thousands of people from all over |
| of an age old battle between dragons. | | | | the world, next to which he still writes reviews for |
| Dragons. Cool!11. Cars | | | | several Dutch magazines. |
| Normally Pixar is a guarantee for quality, but this time I | | | | |