DO YOU remember Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker curling up to one another in Did You Hear About the Morgans? It seems like aeons ago, does it not? But that was the first major release of 2010. Since then we've seen Toy Story 3 and Alice in Wonderland chew up the box office. We've welcomed the summer with Iron Man 2 – the first blockbuster cuckoo, as it were – and said hello to Oscar season with The Social Network and Jackass 3D (only joking). Now, the time has come to relive it all one more time with DONALD CLARKEand TARA BRADY.
* The huge mobile phone in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Gordon Gekko retrieves the 1980s totem after being released from prison.
* Annette Bening delivers a brilliantly excruciating version of Joni Mitchell's All I Wantduring The Kids Are All Right.All I want is for you to stop.
* Cannibals threaten the heroes of The Road. Literary adaptation delivers one great moment of pure Grand Guignol. Properly revolting.
* Bonad upstages the titular protagonist of Zonad. A squat fake alien persuades the inhabitants of a remote village that he, rather than his larger friend, has the answer to their petty dilemmas.
* Joe Dante's The Hole 3Dshowcases a scary clown doll to remind us that clowns – and dolls – are more frightening than, say, portals to Hades.
* “My name is Evelyn Salt.” “Then you are a Russian spy.” A genuinely brilliant moment from Salt – surely, the original pitch – after which the Angelina Jolie vehicle descends into unstoppable nonsense.
* The food, the clothes, the snow, the music in I Am Love.The film was, perhaps, a little empty. But, darling, all that lovely, lovely stuff.
* The dwarf fight in Jackass 3D.Punters in a bar watch astounded as brawling little people are arrested by similarly sized police officers and attended by equally diminutive paramedics.
* The sex scene in Chicoand Rita.Yes, such things are normally ghastly. But the animated picture actually managed a degree of tenderness.
* Howard Marks meets a deranged Northern Irish republican in Mr Nice. David Thewlis’s performance would be offensive if it weren’t so rampagingly hilarious.
* Getting put on hold in Buried. The year's best high-concept thriller found poor Ryan Reynolds, buried alive, encountering commonplace difficulties when attempting to phone for help.
* Will Ferrell has a wooden gun in The Other Guys. "It's a wooden gun!" Mark Wahlberg bellows. That's what it is, all right.
* Willis, Schwarzenegger and Stallone have a brief powwow during The Expendables.It's not a great film. It's not a great scene. But some sort of history is being made.
* The lovely old-school musical homage in Step-Up: 3D.The surprisingly zippy dance film tips its hat to Astaire and Kelly with a jolly hop through busy city streets.
* A soldier breaks down during combat in the gripping documentary Restrepo. Rare footage of what must be a depressingly common occurrence.
* One excellent joke in Woody Allen's Whatever Works."I have seen the abyss!" an existentially distressed Larry David wails. "Don't worry. We'll watch something else," his partner nonchalantly replies.
* Casey Affleck's deadened stare in The Killer Inside Me.Forget the dubious scenes of excessive violence against woman. Affleck's blankness is properly terrifying.
* An internal view of the sexual act in Into the Void. It's absurd. It's pretentious. It's slightly revolting. But the scene is in keeping with Gaspar Noé's brain-jarring aesthetic.
* P Diddy does excellent cameo in Get Him to the Greek."I've got six fucking kids! Do you know how many Air Jordans six black kids wear?" He needs Jonah Hill to step up, you see.
* The most Mike Leighish sequence in any Mike Leigh film ever. Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen shelter from the rain in an allotment during Another Year. Did we mention it was by Mike Leigh?
* Sean Bean encounters the perfect medieval community in Black Death.Or does he? The best folk horror in a decade barely registered at the box office.
* The sheer clatter, bang, thump and screech of Lebanon.Samuel Maoz's Israeli war film brilliantly communicated the aural trauma of fighting inside a tank.
* The subjects of Maya Derrington's documentary Pyjama Girls – working-class kids from Ballyfermot – demonstrate a close knowledge of Adam & Pauland The Magdalene Sisters. There's hope for the Irish film industry.
* A surprising kiss in The Disappearance of Alice Creed. You may not have seen it. So we won't say any more. The low-budget British thriller abounded with such twists.
* Four Lionsfinds religiously radicalised morons planning to destabilise the west with kamikaze crows. One of the better moments in Chris Morris's unexpectedly fitful satire.
* The Karate Kid tidies up – Jackie Chan teaches young Master Jaden Smith how to bust some kung fu moves through a rigorous regime of coat hanging. Gotta have a montage.
* We Are What We Arefamily drive – "We're monsters," notes a demented mom as she and her cannibal children cruise through Mexico City with the body of a mutilated prostitute in their boot.
* Whatever Happened to Cary Elwes? Five sequels on, Dr Lawrence finally shows up to cauterise his own stump and team up with his former nemesis in Saw 3D.
* Inceptionoverture: a dishevelled Leonardo Di Caprio washes up on a beach to the strains of Hans Zimmer's thundering, angular score.
* Pat Nixon pulls out a Smith Wesson Model 60 to stop Black Dynamite from destroying the presidential teacups. “First Lady, I’m sorry I pimp-slapped you into that china cabinet,” says spoof blaxploitation star Michael Jai White.
* Who is under the blanket? A former porn star, shanghaied into a snuff production, realises the awful truth in Srdjan Spasojevic's controversial A Serbian Film.
* Toy Story 3'sconveyer belt of doom. Woody, Buzz and company face the prospect of a fiery end as the mighty Pixar trilogy draws to a close.
* One woman reveals how her husband passed away in her arms after a slow dance at a family wedding in Ken Wardrop's His & Hers.
* K-Patz frolic in the meadow: Kirsten Stewart and Robert Pattinson gambol through the glades in a slow motion scene from Twilight: Eclipse. The results are both sublime and ridiculous.
* Two American tourists awaken to discover they've been surgically joined in The Human Centipede. Gag reflexes awaken shortly after.
* The silent oration in Vincere: a young Benito Mussolini (Filippo Timi) stares down a crowd in Marco Bellocchio's extravagant biopic.
* Jack White bangs a plank and nails into a rudimentary guitar in Davis Guggenheim's It Might Get Loud.
* George Clooney and Vera Farmiga get hot and bothered comparing airlines and company perks in Up in the Air.
* Michael Moore brings his dad back to the former site of the General Electric factory where Moore snr toiled for decades in Capitalism: A Love Story.
* Hiccup and Toothless bond in How to Train Your Dragon.Teenage Viking loser Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) finally captures a dragon, only to befriend it.
* Nell Sweetzer contorts into an implausible backbend as Reverend Cotton struggles to save her immortal soul in The Last Exorcism.
* Not long into Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising, we figure out why One Eye (Mads Mikkelsen), a mute warrior of supernatural strength, is kept on a leash.
* An unhinged Michael Shannon takes acting lessons from Udo Kier in Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
* In Ivan Kavanagh's The Fading Light, a family explains to their mentally disabled brother (Patrick O'Donnell) that mammy isn't getting better.
* There's something about Shutter Island: just when you thought Martin Scorsese's psychological thriller couldn't get any crazier, up popped Patricia Clarkson as an escaped lunatic.
* In The Princess and the Frog, Disney's first African-American princess attempts to lift a voodoo curse on a vain prince, only to be transformed into a frog herself.
* Anxious to keep up with a younger pyramid-stealing supervillain, Despicable Me'sGru seeks a loan at the Bank of Evil, formerly Lehman Brothers.
* Rachel Weisz's party pieces in The Brothers Bloom: two conmen discover their mark can play the banjo, produce watermelon photography and juggle chainsaws while on stilts.
* Jesse Eisenberg's Mark Zuckerman gets connected with Justin Timberlake's Sean Parker in The Social Network.
* Hugo Chávez gets on his tiny bike in Oliver Stone's good-natured political travelogue South of the Border.
