The Bucket List

Lupin III robs a tiny principality of counterfeiters; Miyazaki's first feature, and the car chase Spielberg praised.

A Korean girl goes to New York to get her superpig back from the company that bred it.

The last humans circle a frozen Earth on a train, and the tail carriage fights its way forward.

A mother sets out to clear her son of a schoolgirl's murder and will not stop when she should.

A jobless lecturer starts getting rid of the dogs in his apartment block; Bong's debut.

Six short Westerns, from a singing gunslinger to a stagecoach of strangers who will not stop talking.

A 1950s studio fixer spends a day recovering a kidnapped star; “would that it were so simple”.

A fourteen-year-old hires a drunk marshal to hunt her father's killer; Portis played straight.

A professor rents a room from a churchgoing Mississippi widow and tunnels to a casino vault.

A divorce lawyer with an unbeatable prenup meets a serial bride; the Coens do screwball.

A barber blackmails his wife's lover to get into dry cleaning; Deakins in black and white.

A mailroom clerk is made president so the stock will crash; instead he invents the hula hoop.

A New York playwright is put in a peeling Hollywood hotel to write a wrestling picture, and cannot.

An ex-con and a policewoman steal one of a furniture magnate's quintuplets; Nicolas Cage in a stocking mask.

A Texas bar owner hires a private eye to kill his wife, and every man misreads what happened.

Sapkowski goes back to a Geralt of eighteen, fresh out of Kaer Morhen and bad at the job.

Four marines in mechs instead of Samus; the co-op spin-off announced to an audibly unhappy room.

Team Ninja give Samus a voice and a chain of command; the entry the series argues about.

A first-person Metroid on the DS, aimed with the stylus, with six rival hunters chasing the same relics.

MercurySteam rebuild Metroid II on the 3DS, with a melee counter that changes every encounter.

Samus sent to exterminate the Metroids on their home planet, on a Game Boy screen with no map.

A puzzle-platformer where the furniture turns into monsters the moment the light goes out.

Samus stranded on Viewros with a psychic link to her ship; Retro Studios after an eight-year restart.