As tradition every year, I list the top 30 or so movies to anticipate during the year's release date. Research conducted was estimated release dates, familiar leading names, watching movies like the Indiana Jones trilogy that have a sequel this year, and reading about them elsewhere. It’s not as thoroughly detailed as usual, like caring about the people involved in the project rather than what's it about, but it'll do for now. A person can tell if a movie is going garner an audience just by a date, so Most Wanted lists are usually issued in late March when release dates are set and final for the year. There have been at least three original most wanted movies in each of the past two years that moved back their release date to the following year which causes either delays in finalizing top annual lists or finishing up reviewing the most wanted list by adding in a new movie to review. Star Trek XI went from Christmas ‘08 to May ’09 earlier this year, which is a perfect example. May has had The Shreks, Spider-Mans, Star Wars, Harry Potters, and Pirates which are the biggest selling movies of the millennium and the top 7 all-time opening weekends come from those franchises. The logic, like every year, that February to April movies are real bad, May-August are the fun blockbusters, and the following months are the promising greats still hold true with some smaller films that go unnoticed. Aside from independent productions, mainstream Hollywood makes a bunch of movies that are targeted at specific audience demographics with a sole purpose of just making money. Furthermore, Hollywood's future remakes of classics like The Thing, The Birds, Planet 51, and The Day the Earth Stood Still are scary to think about. Hollywood has more movie entertainers than movie artists these days and I had some trouble finding films to get excited about and look forward to in this year. It began to look like a dismal season for most wanted movies, but that also means there are fewer expectations this year, different from last year.  As usual on this list, dates always alter, especially limited releases in selected cities, so a movie may be pushed back till next year and it’ll be removed from the list.

{10 of 30 Reviewed}