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Every season we folks here at ioncinema.com like to extract 20 options for your viewing pleasure from the thick list of weekly offerings. The season we had several of our regular contributors involved with a 2 tier voting process giving us 20 films worth you spending your hard earned cash on. Films such as Casino Royale or A Good Year didn’t make the cut and choices like Shortbus and The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes just barely weere on the cusp of being included in our top 20. So today we present picks 20 thru 11 and be sure to come back tomorrow as we count down our top 10 positions.

It’s time again to crank up the Remake Machine (or Reinterpretation Machine) as Tilda Swinton and director Erick Zonca ready Julia, a film ‘inspired’ by John Cassavetes' late great Gloria. The road movie, about a woman who uses a young boy to extort money from the mob, will be Zonca’s American directorial debut. The film is slated to start shooting in mid-October, with Los Angeles and Mexico its chief settings.

In a season full of remakes that either rehash or rip apart the originals, it is comforting to know that a few students of Hollywood greats still exist and are willing to pay proper homage to their mentors. Enter David Ondaatje who has announced a remake of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Lodger, a tense psychological jaunt through the eyes of two main characters; a hardened police detective who must solve ghastly murders that he is considered a suspect in, and a paranoid landlady who is convinced her new lodger is the killer.

"Art never comes from happiness." So says Victor Mancini’s mother just a few pages into Chuck Palahniuk's novel "Choke". Victor is a deeply disturbed medical school dropout, with sex addiction problems and a severely unhealthy relationship with his mother. By day he works at a colonial era styled theme park playing an Irish indentured servant, and by night he trolls sex-addict meetings….to get dates. His mother’s history of melodramatic parenting has ended her in a care home suffering from Alzheimer’s and left Victor so attention starved that he deliberately chokes on food in restaurants in order to get “hugged” (via the Heimlich maneuver). Sound like the making of a great movie? Well Universal Pictures apparently thinks so.

It seems every Hollywood couple, at one time or another decide to work on a project together, for better or worse. Some do it well (Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas) while others let the film go down in flames as well as their relationship (Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck). Keeping with the trend, another glamorous duo are set to work side by side. Charlize Theron has been attached to Irish boyfriend Stuart Townsend's script and directorial debut, Battle in Seattle.