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