Now, we certainly don’t expect next year’s Robo remake to better the original, but there’s at least one reason to look forward to it with some sense of optimism: the track record of Brazilian director Jose Padilha. This much-publicised remake has plenty going against it, not least the weight of history: Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop is rightly regarded by many as being among the best films of the 1980s, with its heady cocktail of graphic violence, black comedy and corporate satire. Movies such as Non-Stop, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, Big Hero Six and Edge Of Tomorrow came close but didn’t quite make the cut, even though they have much to offer for their own reasons. In restricting our list to just 25, we’ve tried to create a mix of the high-profile and the less obvious. These lists of anticipated forthcoming movies have become an annual fixture by now, and as ever, our selection has been tricky to whittle down. Just now that some of them refer to the list as it was in its previous form! At the very bottom, we’ve left the entries for the films originally included, and the original comments are all intact, too.
As such, we felt it right in this instance to update the list. Furthermore, some interesting movies have had 2014 release dates confirmed. We’ve now put together our lists of must-see movies of 20, too.Ī quick word before you get into the meat of this: Since we uploaded this list back at the start of November, a number of the films we originally featured have been put back to 2015.