Portable Presents: The Best of 2011 in Cinema

In 2011, the big studios have truly flexed their creative muscles by offering us another Pirates of the Carribean, another Twilight, another Transformers, another Fast and the Furious and let’s not forget, the final return of the boy wizard. But there’s no need to mourn the death of originality on the big screen just yet.

Here is a list (in no particular order) of some of the most thrilling, hilarious, visceral and moving films of 2011, traversing the gamut between the “important” and the simply loveable.