Most remakes generally fall into two categories. There’s the ‘God awful’ category, which most remakes seem to strive to get put into. The other, much less used category is the ‘surprisingly good.’ However, ‘The Invasion,’ the latest version of ‘The Invasion of the Body Snatchers,’ needs a third category to be created: ‘Eeeh.’
You know the routine. You’re watching a movie and a scene comes up and something seems familiar about it. It’s not the writing. It’s not the direction. It’s not the acting. Ah, there it is- it’s the soundtrack.
Christopher Nolan is arguably one of the most interesting and talented directors to emerge in the past ten years. His films have received both commercial and critical praise, and his latest, ‘The Dark Knight,’ has been receiving so much praise, and is poised to be the biggest hit of the summer. Nolan, a graduate of …
There was a time where Eddie Murphy was hot. Arguably among the comic greats, his films were funny and entertaining. Now, he is taking his place among other performers who were once
In 1953, writer Elmore Leonard published a short story in Dime Western Magazine. The story was made into a movie in 1957, starring Glenn Ford. In 2007, ‘Walk the Line’ director James Mangold tackled the story again.
Usually main characters have rather normal names. Jerry McGuire. John Shaft. Joe Black. Nothing too strange, nothing too out of the ordinary. However, sometimes an interestingly named main character is just the beginning of a sign that you’re watching a special movie.
With the news coming out this week that Robert Rodriguez is working to re-make 1985’s ‘Red Sonja,’ as a starring role for his girlfriend, Rose McGowan, a number of similar Hollywood movies and Hollywood stories come to mind.
In many ways, ‘Heathers,’ should maybe be the last film we look at in the ‘Summer of Sin’ series. It is a final statement on the teenage films of the 1980s.
Man in line: Wait a minute, why can’t I give my opinion? It’s a free country! Alvy: I mean, d- He can give you- Do you hafta give it so loud? I mean, aren’t you ashamed to pontificate like that?
The poster tag line was, ‘if it could have been forever.’ Well, it wasn’t, but it felt like it. ‘Paradise,’ the rip-off film inspired, (if that’s the right word,) by the box office