10 must-see movies for 2011

1. On The Road
In 1957 Jack Kerouac wrote a letter to Marlon Brando inviting him to play the lead role in the movie of his most famous book. Brando didn't respond. 54 years later and it looks like we're near to it happening. We reckon Sam Riley can do the bizzo on this and can't wait to find out if we're right.

2. Adjustment Bureau
Stitched around the concept of the Philp K Dick short, "Adjustment Team", fate, destiny and Matt Damon's wrinkles combine in an intriguing story that looks part-Inception part-Eternal Sunhine. We will follow the path to the cinema.

3. The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Jude Law, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley sound like a desperate mix and there's no Leonardo di Caprio for once, but we never doubt Martin Scorsese and neither should you. It’s a story about a 12-year-old orphan who inhabits the dank and lonely walls of a Paris train station in 1930 where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. And it's going to be 3D, which, after reading and rewriting the synopsis, just intrigues us further.

4. Source Code
Jake Gyllenhall, who has become a ghastly beacon for shit movies, should get back on track as a grunt who is unwittingly and perpetually transported into the body of a civilian aboard a train during a terrorist attack and has eight minutes to prevent it from occurring. Looks good.

5. Cowboys and Aliens
From the trailer we admit, casting doesn't look totally ideal and the story's gonna need some spark, but with Jon Favreau at the helm (Iron Man) we are expecting all our reservations to be catapilted into the Gigosphere, wherver that is. Our point: we have faith in him. And it.

6. The Muppets


Big time personal project for Jason Segel who co-wrote the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall, this stars Zach Galifianakis, Jack Black, Danny Trejo and Ricky Gervais, which sounds good to us. And we love the muppets. LOVE.

7. Sucker Punch
Zack Snyder and five small-waisted women could make Sucker Punch an unexpected hit this year. It's been described by the producers as “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns”, and we like that.

8. The Hangover 2

How will they lose their minds this time and who is gonna feel the force of their combined stupidity. We never thought we'd see a sequle, but we want to find out.

9. Apollo 18

Shrouded, cloaked and gently daubed in secrecy a la Cloverfield and certainly a sleeper hit in the making. There be aliens afoot. On the moon!

10. Real Steel
Perhaps we shouldn't have included this, mainly because it looks so fucking atrocious it hurts our already-pained brains, but we did because sometimes it's important to highlight what looks very bad as much as it is to remind people about what looks most worthy. This looks like it could SUCK SERIOUS BALLS. Serious, serious balls.