Next year looks to be a massive year for film making it hard to pick, but here is my final list.
10: The BGF - In my eyes, Steve Spielberg is the single greatest director ever. While I am waiting for him to return and direct a hard hitting scifi film again (Close Encounter Of The Third Kind and Minority Report remain two of my favorite Spielberg films) I am looking forward to seeing his new family fantasy film.
9: Kubo And The Two Strings - Laika is currently my favorite animated film studio. Don't get me wrong, there have been some great animated films in the last few years (How to Train Your Dragon 2, Big Hero Six, Inside Out) but Laika's beautiful stop motion animation and guts to push the family film into new territory makes every one of their film's something special.
8: Passengers: Original big budget scifi films are always a risk. For every Interstellar there is a Jupiter Ascending. While we haven't seen any footage yet, the talent attached and the studio's confidence in the film is very reassuring.
7: Doctor Strange: I love Marvel. So then it might be odd that Civil War isn't on my list. Civil War will be great, of that I have no doubt, and I am eagerly awaiting its release. But for me, Doctor Strange, like Guardians Of The Galaxy before it, gives Marvel the opportunity the begin expanding and exploring a side of their universe we have yet not seen and to me that is far more exciting.
6: Hail, Caesar! - A Coen Brothers film exploring the world of 1950's Hollywood filmmaking? Sign me up!
5: Colossal - I'm a sucker for a good giant monster movie. Godzilla was a staple of my childhood and remains to this day one of my all time favorite film series, bad rubber suits and all. Colossal's interesting take on that genre is fascinating and has eagerly waiting to see more.
4: Star Trek Beyond - You may have seen a theme with most of my movies... I am a huge scifi fan. And that all stems from my family's love of Star Trek as I was growing up. While my reaction to the first trailer was less then enthusiastic, Simon Pegg's equally unethusiastic reaction and promise that it is much more than a string of action sequences is enough to restore my faith in the film.
3: The Witch - Horror movies hold a place in my heart second only to scifi films. I've seen so many that I have found myself in the position that few horror movies seem to truly scare me anymore. The trailer for The Witch unnerved me, something that came as a pleasant surprise. Couple that with the amazing Sundance reception it received, not only calling it a great horror movie but one of the best of the festival this year, makes this my most anticipated horror movie of the year.
2: Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them - The prospect of returning to J.K. Rowling's amazing Wizarding World is enough to make it my number two pick.
1: Star Wars | Rouge One - The Force Awakens was a great return to the Star Wars universe. The opportunity to explore corners of the universe we haven't seen before makes the anthology films almost more exciting than the main series episodes themselves.
Honorable Mentions: Deadpool, Captain America: Civil War, BvS, Finding Dory, Moana, Now You See Me 2, Spectral, The Great Wall, The Conjuring 2, Ghostbusters, X-Men: Apocolypse.
