Last Sunday, the critics at the Post-Dispatch assembled lists of the most anticipated new releases in their respective fields for the first quarter of 2011.
But at the movies, winter is a burial ground. While the Oscar-contending films lure the last of the stragglers, the new releases are a woeful bunch. But like a city without a playoff-caliber football team, movie fans await the spring, when the Cardinals report to spring training and buzzworthy flicks return to the multiplex.
This year, there will be sequels aplenty, including the latest "Transformers," "Harry Potter," "Pirates of the Caribbean," "Hangover," "Scream" and "Cars" movies. There will be superheroes, including "The Green Hornet," "Thor" "Captain America" and "The Green Lantern." And there will be super directors, including new movies from Steven Speilberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Terrence Malick.
Here are some titles and dates that I suggest you mark on your calendar. (But remember, high hopes don't always pan out. it was just a couple months ago that we were exctied about Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie co-starring in the tourist, and how'd that work out?)
Rango (animated chameleon-cowboy yarn, directed by Gore Verbinski, with the voice of Johnny Depp): March 4
Red State (religious-themed horror flick directed by Kevin Smith, with John Goodnam and Michael Parks): spring release date TBD
The Beaver (meltdown dramedy directed by Jodie Foster, with Mel Gibson and a hand puppet): April 8
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (buccaneer blowout, directed by rob Marshall, with Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz): May 11
Hangover 2 (bachelors-in-Bangkok comedy, directed by Todd Phillips, with Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis): May 26
Green Lantern (superhero flick, directed by Martin Campbell, with the newly single Ryan Reynolds): June 17
Cars 2 (animated round-the-world road race from Pixar, directed by John Lasseter, with the voices of Owen Wilson, Michael Keaton, Bonnie Hunt and, um, Larry the Cable Guy): June 24
Transformers; Dark of the Moon (robot porn directed by Michael Bay, with Shia LaBeouf and not Megan Fox): July 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (fantasy finale, directed by Daivd Yates, with Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes and undoubtedly the showiest showdown of all time): July 15
Cowboys & Aliens (sci-fi Western, directed by Jon Favreau, with Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig): July 29
Hugo Cabret (1930s orphan-living in-a-Paris-train-station tearjerker, based on an award-winning children's book, directed by Martin Scorsese, with Sacha Baron Cohen and Chloe Moretz): Dec. 9
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (spy thriller directed by Brad Bird, with Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner): Dec. 16
The Adventures of Tintin (animated boy-reporter adventure, directed by Steven Spielberg): Dec. 28
Twist Now and Sunrise (horror thriller, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with Val Kilmer): TBD
On the Road (beatnik travel classic, directed by Wlater Salles, with Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen): TBD
The Tree of Life (metaphysical famaily saga, directed by the reclusive and meticulous Terrence Malick, with Sean Penn and Brad Pitt): TBD, maybe never
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