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Remakes

A collection of 4 posts
Film Review

Pete's Dragon (2016)

Attention, parents: If you fed the Hollywood machine a bunch of money for The Secret Life of Pets, making it a blockbuster and guaranteeing that we'll all have to deal with plenty of obnoxious sequels in the years ahead, how about letting Disney know you also appreciate, you
22 Aug 2016 4 min read
On Movies & Media

Remake and Hum

The prolific French director Patrice Leconte made a wonderful movie called Man on the Train several years ago about a professor and a bank robber who trade lives for a day. A Canadian remake is now underway starring Donald Sutherland and... wait... really? LARRY MULLEN JR.?
26 Apr 2010
Olivier Assayas

In the Olympics of Stupid Movie Ideas, America Keeps Winning Gold.

So, the filmmaker Olivier Assayas makes a beautiful, poetic film called Summer Hours, which ends up among the handful of movies most celebrated by critics in 2009. It's hard to find any fault with it. It explores a broad array of subjects - art history, nostalgia, globalism, family
17 Feb 2010 2 min read
On Movies & Media

Who needs "Indiana Jones 4" when we've got THIS?!

I've been reading about this project for years, it seems like. But the momentum is building, and we may finally get to see this amazing work of fan filmmaking....
11 Apr 2005
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