I've heard the original Woman in Black from 1989 is terrifying, haven't seen it, though the whole thing is on youtube

The short answer is that the movie mostly plays it straight and has Dredd as the good guy like you said, but occasionally hints at how fucked up what they're doing is. There's a bit early on where he calls in for cleanup after a bunch of civilians have been killed as a result of him pursuing a bad guy, and there's janitors casually mopping up the corpses and a PA announcement saying the plaza will reopen in 10 minutes or something. Very Robocop. Not enough of that kind of stuff there for my taste, so it's definitely not a great movie, but it is there.

Anderson is mostly committed to becoming a judge but she sees and does some things that make her think twice about it.

Please don't do the fucking remake, original or go home

Watched The Master in 70mm. Calling it right now that this is winning Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Phoenix and Hoffman. Amy Adams also has a good shot at winning Best Supporting Actress.

It's also by far the most gorgeous thing I've seen all year, you really haven't seen anything like this in years, it's got such a unique and appealing look visually.

The movie is totally engrossing all the way through, has some of the absolute best scenes of the whole year, but really peters out at the end and doesn't seem to pay off on any of the story arcs, or any themes really.

I'm sure smarter folk than I will analyze it to death and maybe can explain it to me later, but it really ends up feeling like the movie doesn't know what it wants to say, unless that's the point.

Still absolutely worth seeing though, just for plain originality. I haven't seen anything remotely like this before, the closest comparison I can think of is Eyes Wide Shut. I have a feeling it will resonate with me for a long time to come.

But that's the point, the world has gone to shit to such an extent that technology is basically frozen at where it would be 5 or 10 years from now. The government has some fancier toys to play with, but for the average person it's no different from living in the slums today.

I also think you're coming at this wrong when it comes to the Dredd character. He's not the protagonist here, he's not supposed to have an arc. The whole point of the Dredd character is that he's totally immovable, a living incarnation of the messed up justice system. Anderson is the one who goes through a character arc, she starts out eager to "make it" as a judge, and comes out questioning the way the system is run, after she sees the consequences of some of the people she's killed. The movie smartly keeps these things in the background and doesn't try to get in your face about it. It makes it easy to fall into rooting for Dredd and supporting the justice system, but the wrongs of the system are subtly seen falling in along the periphery and aren't shied away from (I mean for christ-sake, he uses white-phosphorous to burn a bunch of people alive). I do wish it was a bit more explicit a la Robocop, but it's definitely there.

Psycho would be a good choice since it fits the theme, is extremely influential, has a pretty interesting movie structure, and for god's sake guys, how have you not done a Hitchcock film yet?!

I also really feel like you guys have gotta do another Carpenter commentary, and with so much of his stuff being horror I think now would be as good a time as any. Like I said, They Live would be great because of the abundant social commentary on display. If you wanted to go more pure horror In The Mouth of Madness would be a good choice.

I hadn't considered Prince of Darkness......if you think you can explain what the fuck is going on in that movie you guys are welcome to go for it.

Someone mentioned Scream, I think I would almost rather you guys do that then Cabin in the Woods, because in many ways Scream is doing the exact same thing as Cabin in the Woods, except it got there 20 years earlier, and actually works as a scary horror film. Also you've kinda already done a Cabin in the Woods discussion.

Also, I second Blair Witch Project. If you're going to have a discussion about found footage horror, it makes a lot of sense to do the movie that started the trend. If you wanted to do a modern found-footage, I think Rec is a far more effective and interesting example than Paranormal Activity, both in terms of concept and execution.

Kickboxer:

Especially this scene:

If that was the case I would almost say bravo, but the truth is much more sad. This guy has a history of vehement anti-muslim/gays/abortion activism, and he's come out and said that he hoped this movie would convince muslims to switch religions. He even wanted to originally call it "Innocence of Osama" in hopes that extremists would accidentally view it and be "convinced" of the error of their religion, then was crushed when literally no-one showed up to the premiere. He really believed this was a powerful and factual documentary that would change people's minds.

Honestly, while the guy is an irresponsible/racist asshole for producing it (especially given his sincere hatred of muslims), a darker part of me wishes critical videos like that would start coming out all the time and force the fanatics to get used to it and maybe modernize a bit and handle criticism like normal people.

I'd be lying if I said Islamic extremism doesn't terrify me somewhat. I'm no fan of religion in general, but all that "every group has it's extremists" stuff is extremely naive. It's kind of objectively clear that in general islam is a more radical religion than the other major players (see treatment of women, gays, honor killings, etc), and that the extremists within the religion are far more prevalent and radical than in others (see stoning/burning of anyone criticizing their prophet), especially abroad.
Christian extremists will picket at soldier's funerals, and there'll be some lone crazies that might resort to physical violence. In the middle east there'll be a mob that will stone you to death.

In many ways it's like they're at where Christianity was 400 years ago, before the enlightenment and softening of doctrine.
Obviously this is a very broad generalization, I personally have several wonderful, intelligent muslim friends. This is mainly a problem overseas, but it's hard to deny that what we're seeing in the middle east is extremely troubling.

I think it's especially disturbing because even living in extremely secular places on the West Coast, this is one of the few ways you can still feel religion encroaching on your personal freedoms. If one of us made a stupid satirical cartoon about the Prophet, we'd possibly have to go into hiding and watch our backs, and could potentially endanger the lives of US citizens on the other side of the globe. That to me is unacceptable, and a real slippery slope that threatens everything our democracy stands for.

That being said, seeing Libyans protesting against the attack and apologizing for their radical countrymen gives me hope that with greater economic stability, many of these countries will modernize and the ratio of moderates/extremists will increase greatly, as it has been doing in the US/UK for decades.

I think this honestly would've made a much better first episode to the season, just a great light-hearted adventure, straight-forward pretty self-contained storyline, great effects and lots of action.

I can't believe people are whining about the doctor killing the guy at the end, that was one of the best things about it. If I have a problem with Doctor Who in general, it's that I wish the Doctor was more of a han-solo character and killed bad guys more often. This insistence on him being some pure "no-violence" thing just means the writers have to constantly come up with convoluted ways of him getting out of situations without resorting to violence. You're a frickin immortal space-alien badass with crazy technology and a time-travel machine, how about you grab a space-laser every once-in-awhile and save yourself a lot of trouble by shooting the bad-guy in the face while he's monologuing.

Hanna was my #3 film of 2011, love everything about it. I would disagree about it being like a Bourne movie. It is in plot, but the style is completely different, a cross between Run Lola Run and a Grimm fairy-tale.
I love the kind of oddball approach to the film, where the spy storyline takes a backseat for 30 minutes so we can just spend time with this family and Hanna going to parties and stuff. The movie is actually pretty crazy dark and violent, I'm surprised it got a PG-13. And yes, the one-take fight sequence is legendary.

Also, Hanna's got hands down the best soundtrack of 2011, every track is amazing, even if you don't watch the movie I recommend seeking it out.