Discovered: Evidence ancient Mars was dry; short kids depress moms; swine flu mutation; creating artificial memories in rat brain tissue is still a long way off from Total Recall.
It's impossible to dethrone the World's Greatest Detective. The Dark Knight Rises sticks around the top of the pile for another week, while Colin Farrell is as disappointing as ever onscreen and on paper in the new Total Recall remake.
Today we review the new sci-fi remake Total Recall.
Today: A sci-fi update looks surprisingly entertaining, Damon Lindelof has been given some more work, and Cee Lo Green is an actor now.
Colin Farrell takes on the role made iconic by Arnold Schwarzenegger in a remake of the 1990 sci-fi classic about memory manipulation. Just don't expect déjà vu.
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