TOTAL RECALL
BBC America, 8:00 p.m. ET
Last week, BBC America presented a wonderful compare-and-contrast double feature by showing, back to back, the two movies based on Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – one starring Gene Wilder, the other starring Johnny Depp. Tonight, BBC America does it again, this time presenting the two movies based on Philip K. Dick’s short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. First is the very entertaining 1990 movie Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone. That’s followed by the 2012 Total Recall remake, a vastly inferior version directed by Len Wiseman and starring Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale.