So other than updating the look and ditching the Mars angle, is the new Total Recall going to do anything the 1990 version didn't? I'm assuming the Kuato/alien machine stuff won't go down the same way.

I agree! I thought it would just be a "so bad it's good" B-movie but it was even more clever and subversive than that. And Laibach should be tapped for more film soundtracks.

Campbell wrote The Hero With a Thousand Faces in the 1940s, mapping, from a mainly psychological and literary perspective, the commonalities between the myths and legends of different civilizations. His later work, The Masks of Gods is more anthropological and historical, getting to the uniqueness of various cultures'…

There is a standard doctrine; the Bible.

There was one interview where Ahmed said he was trying to invoke the feeling of the stuff like the early Dragonlance novels—the books we all read and liked as kids but aren't supposed to be cool any more because we're all reading dark and gritty GRRM and Joe Abercrombie stuff. I do like ASoIaF and the First Law, but I…

Before we go any further, I should confess a personal bias. I hate movies about writers.

Just being snarky. And yeah, Stoker didn't give Dracula powers in sunlight, because if vampires have powers in sunlight, they're basically superheroes who drink blood. And if so, why aren't they ruling the world?

Or, y'know, in the work of some hack named Bram Stoker.

I concur he has a stronger claim to a spot on this list than Peter Jackson—who himself probably has a stronger claim than half the list as is.

I was thinking of The Insider too, but I think the actual producer he portrayed there was known for passionate diatribes so one or two might have slipped in there. It's been a while though.

I didn't care for Ponyo.

Avatar's only real crime is its paint-by-numbers story and complete lack of subtlety. And hardly the worst offender there. Oh, and it has Sam Worthington, but shockingly Cameron's the only director I've ever see get a decent performance out of him. I wouldn't call it one of my favourites, but from a technical…

Aren't over half his films based on other people's work?

I give Nolan points for managing to rein in post-Scent of a Woman scenery-chewing Al Pacino, even if only a little bit.

Jack is the only character connected to Cerberus that didn't make me angry with her mere existence. And her basically becoming the Wolverine of Kahlee Sanders' School for Gifted Biotics in ME3 was just a genius character turn. She also hated Cerberus more than I did. No wonder I liked her.

I love her loyalty mission too. It's one of the few in ME2 that isn't just "walk through corridors and put bullets in things." (I'd hoped Tali's would be like that too, but alas...) I really appreciated the change of pace.

I couldn't punch Kalisah. She's 10 times the reporter your average North American cable-news journo could ever hope to be!

Don't forget sub-Saharan Africa: Great Zimbabwe

It finally happened.