I agree that "Last of the Mohicans" with Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the finest films of all time. Just superb.

Another great one is "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World".

For monster films..."Cloverfield" was rather good in its own way, I think. It was a bran new approach to city-wrecking monsters, in that no attempt at all is made to explain where the monster came from or why or anything at all about that...but you were just faced with the actual events unfolding right on the spot. Quite effective, I thought.

The recent animated feature "Wall-EE" was pretty good.

And for an absolute animated masterpiece of a movie: "Ratatouille"

It has great adventure, wonderful humour, terrific subtlety, brilliant animation, great characters, and a truly heartfelt script in every way possible.

For a great extended TV series, rent yourself all the episodes in the 2005 HBO series "Rome". Very, very good.