You remember how that Simple Minds song went, 'don't you ... forget about me ... don't, don't, don't, don't ... don't you ... forget about me'. Well, we sure as hell haven't forgotten, nor have we forgotten about the movie it featured so prominently in - The Breakfast Club - especially if you're a child of the 1980s, like myself.
He's definitely performed better than the last A-list American actor to portray a genuine British literary or mythological legend, but there is still a question mark over Robert Downey Jnr's Sherlock Holmes.
Borrowing from cult sci-fi favorites such as Alien Nation and Enemy Mine new sensation District 9 (2009) is another fine example of taking a less than unique idea for a movie and presenting it on the big screen in an entirely unique way.
For all the crap that is churned out by the Hollywood processing plant, it makes you wonder why a clever little horror film like Trick 'r Treat is left on the studio shelf for almost two years after production completed to gather dust - and a bad reputation.
Vampire movies have been around almost since the dawn of movies. The entire genre has proven to be harder to kill than the bloodsuckers themselves - no matter how hard some have tried over the years.
Almost 400 years after his death, the work of The Bard, the great William Shakespeare, continues to be adapted for the big screen at an amazing rate - by all and sundry.