This week on Total Movie Recall, things get grim and a little too close to 2020 reality for comfort. Definitely don’t watch this movie if you’re fresh out of rehab, which Ryan can tell you all about. The future is bleak, but if it’s also as ruggedly handsome as Clive Owen is and has the greatest single-take of all time, it might not be so bad. This is also one of the greatest movies of all time, just to be clear about it.

Children of Men (2006)

d. Alfonso Cuarón

Starring:
Clive Owen
Julianne Moore
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Michael Caine
Clare-Hope Ashitey
Charlie Hunnam

When infertility threatens mankind with extinction and the last child born has perished, a disillusioned bureaucrat (Clive Owen) becomes the unlikely champion in the fight for the survival of Earth's population; He must face down his own demons and protect the planet's last remaining hope from danger.

Things discussed in the show:

Y Tu Mamá También (Carlos Cuarón, Alfonso Cuarón, Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho)

A Little Princess (Alfonso Cuarón, Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham)

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Woliner, Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hanks, Rudy Giuliani)

Impractical Jokers The Movie (Chris Henchy, Paula Abdul, Joe Gatto, James Murray, Brian Quinn, Sal Vulcano)

Bad Trip (Kitao Sakurai, Eric André, Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany Haddish)

Jackass The Movie (Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Spike Jonze, Steve-O, Ryan Dunn, Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña)

Ali G Indahouse (Mark Mylod, Sacha Baron Cohen, Dan Mazer, Emilio Rivera, Gina La Piana)

Brüno (Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale)

Jimmy Kimmel and Borat

The Yes Men (Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Andreas Bichlbauer, Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum, Chris Smith)

Who Is America? (Sacha Baron Cohen, Roy Elghanayan, Emanuela Postacchini)

Topnotch Idiots - YouTube

Dr. Sleep (Mike Flanagan, Stephen King, Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran)

The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers)

Supernatural (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins, Mark Sheppard, Mark Pellegrino)

The Haunting of Hill House (Mike Flanagan, Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, Henry Thomas)

The Haunting of Bly Manor (Mike Flanagan, Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Amelia Eve)

The Conjuring (James Wan, Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston)

Slimer

Scream (Wes Craven, Kevin Williamson, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Drew Barrymore, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy)

Blair Witch - 2016 (Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid)

The Guest (Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, Dan Stevens, Sheila Kelley, Maika Monroe)

The Blair Witch Project

Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, Drew Goddard, Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan)

REC (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano)

The VVitch (Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie)

The Witches - 1990 (Nicolas Roeg, Roald Dahl (book), Allan Scott (screenplay), Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher)

The Witches - 2020 (Robert Zemeckis, Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci)

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Colin Higgins, Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise)

Anjelica Huston vs. Anne Hathaway

Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo, Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell)

Taking of Pellam 123 - 1974 (Joseph Sargent, Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam)

Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter, Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer)

Money Train (Joseph Ruben, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Lopez)

Zombeavers (Jordan Rubin, Rachel Melvin, Cortney Palm, Lexi Atkins)

Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey)

Great Expectations (Alfonso Cuarón, Charles Dickens (novel), Mitch Glazer (screenplay), Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria)

The Possibility of Hope (documentary, overpopulation, climate change, the rise of fascist powers, Fabrizio Eva, John Gray, Naomi Klein)

Avengers Endgame (The Thanos Snap, Josh Brolin, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chadwick Boseman, Brie Larson, Tom Holland, Tom Hiddleston, Jon Favreau, Natalie Portman, Jon Favreau, Taika Waititi)

Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris)

Die Hard (John McTiernan, Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia)

Allegories to the Virgin Mary

The Christmas Truce of WWI

Thriller

Franz Kafka

The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

Billy on the Street with Julianne Moore (Billy Eichner)

The Murder of Fred Hampton

Logan's Run (Michael Anderson, Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan)

“There’s no such thing as an anti-war film,” is a quote often attributed to the late French filmmaker François Truffaut.

American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner)

Next week: Cabin Boy