10 Great Films You Missed in 2010

Each and every year a dozen or so gems go unnoticed, slipping in and out of the cinemas quicker than a mistress does into a closet once the wife’s car pulls in. This year there were plenty of good flicks that were treated like the geeky, chess-playing introvert at the school dance – and shouldn’t have been. You really should’ve asked the following to dance…

10. Remember Me

I know, I know, ‘but it’s got that guy with more gunk in his hair than Liz Hurley does in her nether regions’ but c’mon! many-a-good-actor have started out in the cinematic mailroom and graduated to an awe-impressive high-rise suite – just look at Robin ‘Mork’ Williams, Josh ‘Goonies’ Brolin, Tom ‘Bosom Buddies’ Hanks or Stephen ‘Evil Ed’ Geoffries! (Ok, bad example) – ain’t Robert Pattinson innocent until the gavel slams down!? This film, a heartrending relationship drama (it’s both about the rapport between a young couple and also one between a young man and his estranged father) that played to the tick of a 9/11 countdown, proved there’s much more to “Twilight” vamp Robert Pattinson than blank stares, sparkles and tree hopping. Quite simply, Pattinson was an eye-opener in this film. Skeptics need see it.

9. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Quite possibly the best video-game movie ever made…. That’s, funnily enough, not based on a video game. The problem with Edgar Wright’s film adaptation of the popular comic was that it’s, quite honestly, too original. Today’s audiences like to be spoonfed the same dull-tasting comfort food, and even from the trailers (not to mention early pics of Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s funky amethyst tresses), it was clear we were in store for anything but (‘’Couples Retreat’’). Some of you really need to get out more often and experience the wonders that cinema has to offer.

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Carrie