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As we begin ponder exactly which New Year's resolutions we have already broken, let's take a look into...the future. And, by "future", I mean the next 365 days. Each year, film buffs like you and me salivate over the potential awesomeness of various new movies, continuations of popular franchises, and exciting new filmmakers or recently minted movie stars. 2010 looks to be filled with an almost ridiculous helping of such movies, especially big-budget epics. Now, of course, like any normal year, there will be plenty of disappointments at the theaters, even amongst the highly anticipated. The most recent and egregious offender was 2008's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", a film so well-loved that it may be better to assume that there was only a trilogy of Indy adventures.

Of course, this week's A-List isn't about what movies will disappoint us in the coming year. Though this resolution may soon be broken, the A-List is going to start the new year in a positive fashion. The following highlighted films are ones that your humble writer is already mentally in line for, but these five aren't the only ones worth getting excited over. Some other highly anticipated 2010 releases include "The Wolfman", "Shutter Island", "Alice in Wonderland", "Hot Tub Time Machine", "Kick Ass", "Get Him To The Greek", "Dinner for Schmucks", "The Expendables", "Your Highness", "Due Date", "Rapunzel", and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One". As you prepare to fire up your preferred online ticketing service to reserve spots in line, take a look at the top five anticipated movies of 2010, courtesy of the A-List.

Green Zone

With each of the movies on this list, there's a hook. The other four films on this list are either sequels to popular franchises, or feature interesting actors or directors. "Green Zone" falls squarely in the latter category, reuniting the two key players of the Jason Bourne franchise of action films while not being a Bourne film. Directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Matt Damon, "Green Zone" is yet another major studio picture set around the Iraq War of the past decade. If, unfortunately, this film performs like the rest of the recent spate of war films, Universal Pictures is looking at a relative wash at the box office. However, movies such as "The Hurt Locker" and most of "In The Valley of Elah" have proven that topicality doesn't automatically mean that a movie can't be good. With Greengrass, who hasn't made a bad film, from 2002's "Bloody Sunday" to the Bourne films to "United 93, and Damon, whose work is, at the very least, unpredictable, heading the film, I've got high hopes.

"Green Zone", which is slated to open on March 12, focuses on Roy Miller (Damon), a warrant officer helping in the ill-fated hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Baghdad, and choosing to go on his own in some key aspects of the hunt. The film boasts a strong supporting cast, including Amy Ryan, Brendan Gleeson, Greg Kinnear, and Jason Isaacs. But, I imagine that, for some of you Jason Bourne fans (I like the series, but don't love it), all I needed to tell you was Matt Damon starring in an action drama from Paul Greengrass. Though I doubt that Damon's lead character will have the same badass fighting moves as Mr. Bourne, his starring in a potential twin to "The Hurt Locker" is about all I need to plop down a few bucks.

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