Welcome to a brand-new year of movie watching!  Yes, there are still plenty of 2016 releases to view and review as we move toward Oscar season (and I can promise you there will be more reviews than there have been of late, my apologies for that), but it’s always exciting to stand at the beginning of the new year and look at what’s upcoming.  I thought the best way to do that was to highlight the ten best trailers for 2017 movies released thus far.  These are mostly for first-half releases, and some films just missed the list so here’s just a taste of what’s coming in 2017 that isn’t on the list: Star Wars Episode VIII, Justice League, John Wick Chapter 2, The Circle, Alien: Covenant, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, The Mummy, Spider-Man Homecoming, The Dark Tower, Creed 2, It, Thor: Ragnarok, Murder on the Orient Express, and many more. So get ready for the ride; it’s going to be a heck of a year!

 1. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 directed by James Gunn

2. Kong Skull Island, Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts

3. Logan, Directed by James Mangold

4. Beauty and the Beast, Directed by Bill Condon

5. The LEGO Batman Movie directed by Chris McKay

6. The Fate of the Furious, Directed by F. Gary Gray

7. War for the Planet of the Apes, Directed by Matt Reeves

8. Ghost in the Shell, Directed by Rupert Sanders

9. Dunkirk, Directed by Chris Nolan

10. Blade Runner 2049, Directed by Denis Villenueve