All posts tagged "remake"
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Jim Batts | June 12, 2025
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (2025) – Review
Some may find it hard to believe, but most critics try to go into a film with no...
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Jim Batts | May 22, 2025
LILO & STITCH (2025) – review
And we’re finally back to the blockbusters, to be precise, the big Summer box office blockbusters, that will...
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Jim Batts | April 17, 2025
THE WEDDING BANQUET (2025) – Review
Well, here comes another film to reflect the season of love, Spring. We’re in a short “window” in...
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Jim Batts | March 20, 2025
SNOW WHITE (2025) – Review
Well, they’re at it again (much like the old President Reagan “go to” for impressionists, “There he goes,...
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Cate Marquis | December 30, 2024
NOSFERATU – Review
Before Bela Lugosi created the image of an elegant Dracula in Todd Browning’s film DRACULA, F.W. Murnau made...
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Cate Marquis | July 19, 2024
TWISTERS – Review
It’s summer, and tornadoes might be on the news and on your mind, so if a studio is...
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Jim Batts | March 20, 2024
ROAD HOUSE (2024) – Review
So, last weekend saw the release of a sequel, the fourth in a franchise concerning the powerful Po,...
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Jim Batts | January 12, 2024
MEAN GIRLS (2024) – Review
Get ready for another “full circle film”, an IP (intellectual property) that began in one medium, was adapted...
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Jim Batts | July 27, 2023
HAUNTED MANSION – Review
And the Summer of product adaptations and remakes continues! Last weekend BARBIE just about blew the doors off...
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Jim Batts | May 25, 2023
THE LITTLE MERMAID (2023) – Review
As I mentioned last week, nostalgia appears to be playing a big role in this just-started cinema Summer...
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Jim Batts | May 18, 2023
WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP (2023) – Review
So, do you have an appetite for sports films after the entertaining true life-inspired AIR from a few...
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Cate Marquis | January 20, 2023
LIVING – Review
Bill Nighy gives a striking performance as colorless taciturn bureaucrat whose his rigid, repetitive life is transformed by...
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Jim Batts | September 8, 2022
PINOCCHIO (2022) – Review
As the Summer box office slowly begins to cool off, it may be time for another entry in...
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Jim Batts | December 16, 2021
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021) – Review
Step right up, folks. Even though the temps are dipping (in most states), the fine folks in “Tinsel-Town’...
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Jim Batts | November 11, 2021
HOME SWEET HOME ALONE – Review
Time for yet another merry “movie mash-up”, with a big accent on the first “m”, The studios love...
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Cate Marquis | May 6, 2020
THE JESUS ROLLS – Review
No, it’s not a Christian movie but a sequel to THE BIG LEBOWSKI. Well, sort of a sequel....
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Cate Marquis | August 23, 2019
AFTER THE WEDDING – Review
AFTER THE WEDDING cleverly switches the genders on the Oscar-nominated Danish film of the same name, transforming it...
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Cate Marquis | February 8, 2019
WHAT MEN WANT – Review
Taraji P. Hensen plays an ambitious sports agent trying to make partner at an agency dominated by white...