Getting bored yet? Neither are we. Yes, yes it is vaguely patronizing to be spoon-fed tiny droplets of information about upcoming films like hungry chicks tweeting madly at their mother, but you know what? This is Toy Story. All bets are off.

2009 certainly brought us a few cinematic corkers, from sci-fi epic Avatar to comic-book crunching goodness from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight and Watchmen. But it wasn’t all wham, bam and explosions – will 2010 be a year of smarter movies? Judging this list… maybe.