Movies I'm Looking Forward to in 2010: A-G

I've done some research, and with the help of the movie news website Dark Horizons, I've put together a list of film that I find interesting and think you should at least consider seeing in the theaters.

With each film is a brief description, list of stars and a release date, if one has been provided. That said, just remember that release dates are subject to change.

Here is the first part of the list I've come up with in what will be a four part list that I will reveal over between now and Tuesday.

44 Inch Chest (January 15)
Cast: John Hurt, Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Tom Wilkinson, Joanne Whalley
Director: Malcolm Venville
Summary: Shattered by the bombshell of his wife’s infidelity with a young French waiter, Colin Diamond and his motley crew of friends kidnapp the loverboy and assemble a kangaroo court to take revenge out on him as the mighty Colin wrestles with his own demons.

The Adjustment Bureau
Cast: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, John Slattery, Terence Stamp, Daniel Dae Kim
Director: George Nolfi
Summary: David Norris, a charismatic congressman meets a beautiful ballet dancer named Elise Sellas, only to find strange circumstances keeping them from getting closer. Norris discovers forces are at work to ensure they stay apart, and he pushes to find out why. Based on a short story by science fiction writer Phillip K. Dick.

Alice in Wonderland (March 5)
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter
Director: Tim Burton
Summary: A pseudo-sequel to the Lewis Carroll classic, Alice returns to the fantasy realm years after her first visit. Now aged 17 and not fitting into Victorian society and structure, she returns to a slightly haunted and overgrown Wonderland.

Bitch Slap (opened January 5)
Cast: Julia Voth, Erin Cummings, America Olivo, Michael Hurst
Director: Rick Jacobson
Summary: A down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer and a corporate powerbroker arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort money from a ruthless underworld kingpin. As allegiances change, truths are revealed and the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

The Book of Eli (January 15)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals
Director: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes (sometimes credited as The Hughes Brothers)
Summary: The story revolves around a lone warrior (Washington) who must fight to bring society the knowledge that could be the key to its redemption. Oldman has been set to portray the despot of a small makeshift town who's determined to take possession of the book Eli's guarding.

Centurion
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, David Morrissey, Noel Clarke
Director: Neil Marshall
Summary: Set during the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 117. The legendary Ninth Legion marches north under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth, only to be decimated in a devastating guerrilla attack. A splinter group of survivors fight for their lives behind enemy lines.

Clash of the Titans (March 26)
Cast: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton
Director: Louis Leterrier
Summary: Based on the 1981 film of the same name (rememberr Bubo the Owl?), the ultimate struggle for power pits men against gods. But the war between the gods themselves could destroy the world. Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld.

The Conspirator
Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, James McAvoy, Kevin Kline, Robin Wright Penn, Justin Long
Director: Robert Redford
Summary: Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.

Cop Out (February 26)
Cast: Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Seann William Scott, Adam Brody, Jason Lee
Director: Kevin Smith
Summary: Two cops track down a stolen baseball card, rescue a Mexican beauty and must deal with gangsters and laundered drug money. This was called “A Couple of Dicks,” till someone decided they didn’t think the title of the film was funny. Also, Smith didn't write this one, he's just directing.

The Crazies (February 26)
Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Danielle Panabaker, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson
Director: Breck Eisner
Summary: A remake of George A. Romero's 1973 film of the same name. The story revolves around the inhabitants of a small Kansas town who are beset by death and insanity after a plane crash lets loose a secret biological weapon into the water supply.

Date Night (April 9)
Cast: Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, James Franco
Director: Shawn Levy
Summary: A couple find their routine date night becomes much more than just dinner and a movie when they're mistaken for a dangerous couple. They soon encounter everything from over-anxious securities experts to petty con men who mess up their romantic evening.

Daybreakers (Opened January 8)
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Vince Colosimo, Claudia Karvan
Director: Michael & Peter Spierig
Summary: In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the dominant plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of humans on a potential way to save the human race.

The Debt
Cast: Sam Worthington, Helen Mirren, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Martin Csokas
Director: John Madden
Summary: In 1965, three young Israeli Mossad agents on a secret mission capture and kill a notorious Nazi war criminal. Now, thirty years later, a man claiming to be the Nazi has surfaced in the Ukraine and one of the former agents must go back undercover to seek out the truth.

Dinner for Schmucks (July 23)
Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams
Director: Jay Roach
Summary: A renowned publisher encourages his friends to invite the most pathetic guests possible for their weekly dinner party. Just as they find the most pathetic man yet, the host is injured and ends up trapped with the man all night long.

Due Date (November 5)
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx, Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monaghan, RZA
Director: Todd Phillips
Summary: Downey will play an expectant father who finds himself on a road trip with a mismatched partner, as he races to get there before his wife gives birth to his first child. Galifianakis plays his road trip mate.

Edge of Darkness (January 29)
Cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Denis O'Hare
Director: Martin Campbell
Summary: Based on the acclaimed British TV miniseries which followed a cop unravelling the truth behind the brutal killing of his daughter. His investigations lead him into a murky world of corporate cover-ups and nuclear espionage with dark forces threatening the future of life on Earth.

The Expendables (August 13)
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Summary: "The Expendables" follows a team of mercenaries on a mission to overthrow a South American dictator.

Get Me to the Gig (June 11)
Cast: Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Rose Byrne, Sean Combs, Elisabeth Moss
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Summary: Aaron Greenberg is a driven, idealistic young college graduate who works as an intern at a record company. Aaron is given his big break when he is sent to transport flaky English musician Aldous Snow to a concert at Los Angeles' Greek Theater. A spinoff of the 2008 film “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.”

The Green Hornet (December 22)
Cast: Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz, Jay Chou, Edward James Olmos, Christoph Waltz
Director: Michel Gondry
Summary: Britt Reid is a wealthy industrialist by day. At night though he goes out in his masked "Green Hornet" identity to fight crime as a vigilante, accompanied by his similarly masked Asian manservant Kato who drives a car equipped with advanced technology. Based on the comic book and 1960's TV show of the same name.

Green Zone (March 12)
Cast: Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan
Director: Paul Greengrass
Summary: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, a warrant officer in search of weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert instead stumbles upon an elaborate cover-up by his own people that inverts the purpose of their mission.

Grown Ups (June 25)
Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Salma Hayek
Director: Dennis Dugan
Summary: Five friends and former teammates reunite years later to honor the passing of their childhood basketball coach. With their wives and kids in tow, they spend the Fourth of July weekend together at the lake house where they celebrated their championship years earlier.

Guardians of Ga'Hoole 3D (September 24)
Cast: Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Helen Mirren, Hugo Weaving, Abbie Cornish, Ryan Kwanten
Director: Zack Snyder
Summary: The story follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones.