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No More Half Measures: On Disney Live-Action Remakes
Josh Spiegel writes about the recent proliferation of Disney live-action remakes of animated films, and how they need to stop taking half-measures.
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The “Secret In Their Eyes” Is That This Movie Is Ludicrous
Secret In Their Eyes is an American remake of the Oscar-winning Argentinian thriller The Secret in Their Eyes. Writer-director Billy Ray’s version drops the word “the” from its title but retains much of its predecessor’s plot. The film’s politics also get an A...
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Weekend Box Office: “Lego” Tops Remakes, There Was Much Rejoicing
It was a double holiday weekend, with President's Day on Monday and Valentine's Day on Friday, and a weekend where three remakes of 80's movies were vying for the top spot in the market. The box office certainly reflected the former, with family films and roma...
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‘Endless Love’ is an Interminable Mess
When I was 11 years old, I snuck into Brooke Shields’ R-rated 1981 feature, Endless Love. The commercials advertised a dirty movie. What I got was so boring and strained that, to save my afternoon, I snuck into another theater to see the gory werewolf movie, W...
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The “RoboCop” Remake Stays (Mostly) True to the Subversive Spirit of the Original
Few Hollywood films, past or present, are as savagely subversive as Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop. Released in 1987 at the (then) height of commercial excess and populist blockbuster entertainment, the film’s outlandish one-word premise and over-the-top sci-fi gunp...
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Dennis Lehane to Adapt French Film ‘A Prophet’, Make It Less French
Because no one in America goes to the movies to read, Sony has hired acclaimed author Dennis Lehane to adapt the Grand Jury Prize-winning French crime film A Prophet for American audiences.
Lehane is the author of such well regarded works as Mystic River an...
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