Erin and Paul stage the ultimate 3D cinematic dance battle as Wim Wenders' 2011 tribute to the late, great choreographer Pina Bausch PINA faces off against Jon M. Chu's exuberantly ridiculous tale of an electrical engineering student who becomes a pivotal player in New York's underground competitive dance scene. The House of Pirates or Tanztheater Wupperthal: which will prevail?

Heather and Paul bone up on their knowledge of international matiral law as Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi's 2011 domestic drama A SEPARATION faces off against Merchant/Ivory's 2003 Parisian confection LE DIVORCE. Hijabs or Kelly bags: which will prevail?

Erin and Paul devote a whole lot of talk this week to movies that contain no talking whatsoever, as Michael Hazanavicius' unlikely 2011 Best Picture Oscar-winner THE ARTIST faces off against Mel Brooks' 1976 comedy throwback SILENT MOVIE. A dog named Uggi and a man named Eggs: which will prevail? 

Heather and Paul examine two offbeat variations on the traditional Western, both starring Johnny Depp as an unlikely gunslinger, as Gore Verbinski's Oscar-winning 2012 animated feature RANGO faces off against Jim Jarmusch's bleak-yet-beautiful 1995 visionquest DEAD MAN. A lizard with the soul of a lawman, or an accountant with the soul of a poet: which will prevail?

Paul and Heather examine two 1989 films that have the same title and the same setting, but virtually nothing else in common: a mournful Hiroshima drama from Shohei Imamura, and a fish-out-of-water cop-on-the-edge thriller from Ridley Scott. BLACK RAIN versus BLACK RAIN: which will prevail?

Erin and Paul rub shoulders with Martian royalty as the 1924 Soviet sci-fi landmark AELITA, QUEEN OF MARS faces off against the 2012 Edgar Rice Burroughs-inspired megaflop JOHN CARTER. Communist kitsch or Taylor Kitsch: which will prevail?

Heather and Paul try not to get lost in the critical wilderness as they pit the new Criterion edition of the 1960 Soviet survival drama LETTER NEVER SENT against the 1997 Anthony Hopkins/Alec Baldwin bear-battling thriller THE EDGE. Communists or billionaires: who has the keener survival instincts?

Erin and Paul examine two films about teenagers forced to compete in winner-take-all bloodsports, as the new blockbuster adaptation of Suzanne Collins' THE HUNGER GAMES faces off against the controversial Japanese exploitation classic BATTLE ROYALE. Katniss or Kitano: which will prevail?

Two movies about seemingly uptight bourgeois blondes who embark upon secret second careers as prostitutes go head to head as Luis Buñuel's Criterion-endorsed 1967 classic BELLE DE JOUR faces off against Ken Russell's berserko 1984 camp thriller CRIMES OF PASSION. Classy Catherine Deneuve or sleazy Kathleen Turner: which will prevail?

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's recently rediscovered 1973 sci-fi TV-movie WORLD ON A WIRE faces off against THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR, the big-budget 1999 Hollywood adaptation of the same classic source novel. Two different takes on virtual reality, one with videophones, the other with Vincent D'Onofrio: which will prevail?