The most anticipated films of 2019: 1-10

1. GREED Steve Coogan stars in this comedy from Michael Winterbottom about a ghastly retail mogul throwing a wild 60th birthday party in Greece. Isla Fisher is his wife, David Mitchell a

journalist. Any resemblance to Philip Green is strictly coincidental. 2. AMMONITE Francis Lee follows 2017's acclaimed "Yorkshire Brokeback" God's Own Country with a tale

of 1840s lesbian palaeontology starring Saoirse Ronan as famous fossil hunter Mary Anning and Kate Winslet as a gentlewoman sent to convalesce by the sea. 3. SORRY WE MISSED YOU With

thoughts of retirement seemingly well forgotten, Ken Loach continues to churn them out, arguably hitting a career high with benefits-assessment drama I, Daniel Blake. Now Loach turns his

attention to another relevant-as-tomorrow's-newspapers topic: the gig economy, specifically a self-employed van driver struggling to keep his and his family's heads above water. 4.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD After having his say in the western and blaxploitation genres, Quentin Tarantino turns to true crime and the gruesome Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969. While QT

has not covered himself in glory in the #MeToo era, his film has attracted a stellar cast (DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie) and carries itself as a homage to hippie-era LA. 5. MEMORIA New

one from Apichatpong Weerasethakul? Yes please. Starring Tilda Swinton? Absolutely. About a Scottish woman travelling in Colombia who "begins to notice strange sounds", then

"begins to think about their appearance"? Just try and stop us. 6. US Jordan Peele's follow-up to Get Out is a supremely creepy-sounding horror about a family holiday by the

beach upset by uninvited guests. Big scissors feature heavily in the promotion. Elisabeth Moss and Lupita Nyong'o star. 7. LITTLE WOMEN Director Greta Gerwig reunites with Lady

Bird's Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet for yet another version of the Louisa May Alcott yarn. Still, this one has serious pedigree: they're joined by Emma Watson, Florence

Pugh, Laura Dern and Meryl Streep. 8. THE IRISHMAN Arguably Netflix's most high-profile capture to date, this passion project of Martin Scorsese's reunites Pacino, De Niro, Joe

Pesci and Harvey Keitel and takes aim at the mafia-union wars of the 70s. De Niro plays mob hitman Frank Sheeran and Pacino corrupt teamster union boss Jimmy Hoffa; the film is based on

Sheeran's book in which he claimed responsibility for Hoffa's murder. 9. THE SOUVENIR Joanna Hogg had a slight wobble with her third film, Exhibition, back in 2013, but this

belated new one, due to premiere at Sundance next month, looks much more promising. Honor Swinton-Byrne stars as a young film student in the early 1980s who begins an affair a dubious older

fella (Tom Burke). Swinton-Byrne's real-life mother, Tilda, plays her mother; Martin Scorsese executive produces. 10. UNTITLED ROGER AILES MOVIE Life moves pretty fast in showbiz. In

May 2016, Fox boss Roger Ailes fell fast from grace after allegations of sexual misconduct from employees. After briefly serving as an advisor to Donald Trump, he died in May 2017; next year

this very starry story of his ignominious end arrives, with John Lithgow in the lead, Malcolm McDowell as Rupert Murdoch, and Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron as two of high-profile

accusers: Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly.