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So why am I giving you a list of films I haven't seen yet? Well, you may well have missed the same ones and have good reasons for doing so. Or you may have seen them and wish to warn me away from them. Or, I might just list a film that you've never even heard of before and which you might be interested to check out. Who knows?

Not only am I paying more attention to when films are actually released these days, but I have also have discovered the rather neat little function on the IMDB website that tells you when a film was released in each country. (This normally automatically reveals the release date within your own country.) As such, when I write lists I'm planning to ditch my habit of using the imdb entry title to identify a film's year. I'm going to start using the UK release date to identify what top ten list a film should be entered into instead.

Naturally this means that all my previous year's lists are now mistaken, so new (shorter) "best of" lists for films in previous years will be forthcoming fairly soon. Hope you are looking forward to those. (Is that "YAY! More lists!" I hear? Very good!)

In the meanwhile, it's time for a 2012 list!

BUT WAIT!

Before I even BEGIN on a list of the top 2012 films, it's vital that I give some indication of what important films I still haven't seen. These films which I still need to see include:

Amour - Michael Haneke's latest film looks pretty interesting and even if I don't absolutely love it, it looks like it's going to be one I'll need to have seen at some stage. I hope it doesn't make me too miserable.

Argo - Ben Affleck's Oscar bait? Well, it's got a lot of attention and a lot of positive reviews. I wasn't tempted enough to check it out in the cinema, but I ought to check it out on DVD.

Berberian Sound Studio - Now apparently sharing the top spot for best film of the year on Mark Kermode's list. I think Toby Jones is an awesome actor and I'm really interested to check out this smaller film. A horror film based around sound effects, eh? Intriguing...

Bellflower - A couple bond by designing weapons in the hopes that they will be prepared for a global apocalypse (Mad Max style?). Sounds awesome and it may finally be available on DVD next year.

Brave - The latest Pixar film has mixed reviews, but not quite the outright hatred received by "Cars 2". I may have to check this out.

Coriolanus - Ralph Fiennes does a military based modernisation of the Shakespeare play. Another case of mixed reviews, but I don't think I can resist.

So many more films (in alphabetical order) under the cut. This is why I'm not a professional movie critic. These are all films I actually WANT to see. (Well, that and lack of writing talent, but yeah...)

Dredd - I really really REALLY wanted to see this in the cinema, but unfortunately there wasn't a single headache-free version available. I know they failed to sell at least two cinema tickets as a result of this and I doubt we were the only ones. I cannot wait to see this in 2D AS GOD INTENDED as soon as possible.

Exit Humanity - Zombie movie in the American Civil War. YAY!

Headhunters - Gritty scandinavian film about murder. Gotta see this!

Hotel Transylvania - The great Genndy Tartatovsky, the master animator behind Dexter's Laboratory and the "Clone Wars" animations which were released to fill the gap between the horrendous episodes 2 and 3 of Star Wars.

The Hunger Games - I haven't read the books and sometimes it's easier to enjoy an adaptation if you aren't familiar with the novel beforehand. (Except in cases like "American Psycho" where the book goes on and on without being terribly compelling while the movie has a great sense of humour.)

Juan Of The Dead - Cuban zombie comedy. YAY!

Margin Call - So far all I know about this is that Paul Bettany has an awful-sounding American accent (though perhaps my feelings about this are partly to do with being so familiar with his typical English accent - which I love!) There's such an interesting selection of actors in this that I cannot help but be interested.

Paranorman - An animated film in the same style as Coraline about a boy who's somehow familiar with ghosts, ghouls, zombies and the like. It looks just brilliant (and no sign of Tim Burton's name on the poster).

The Perks of Being A Wallflower - I wasn't interested in this at all until I saw some pretty high critical consensus. Apparently this is really good. Once again, I'm not familiar with the book. (Yeah, I don't read enough books. Clearly. Perhaps when I finally get myself an electronic book that'll change? Certainly my collected works of Lovecraft I've been reading lately would be a lot more manageable as a file.)

Sightseers - Black comedy about caravan holiday-makers. Just wow... this is going to be good. (Although it's both written and directed by the same people as "Kill List" so, considering the way that film ended, that might possibly be a bad sign.)

Silent Hill: Revelation - Yeah, it's supposed to be awful but one online reviewer who I have as yet to give a shout out for is "Film Master Adam" (click here for his youtube channel), seemed to reckon it was a bit of a mixed bag, rather than an utter let-down. (Admittedly he doesn't actually recommend the film, but even so...)

Silver Linings Playbook - The latest Jennifer Lawrence movie - YAY! From the director of "The Fighter" - YAY! There's no guarantee that this'll be great, but I think it's probably worth the risk.

Also...

I'm still really on the fence about whether I can be bothered with "Life Of Pi" and I'm not entirely certain that "Ted" will be my sort of film, but I'll probably see both of those eventually. I also have the tv movie "The Girl" with Toby Jones playing the part of Hitchcock waiting to be watched.

So, anyway, if you think that my 2012 list needed me to see any of those, you'll need to wait until next year (by which time, it's quite possible you won't care).

This year's (and several other years') best movies of the year list(s) coming very soon!