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Director Terence H Winkless’s quite bad and totally uncalled for 1995 movie is the second remake of the 1957 Roger Corman movie about a vampire alien arriving on Earth. Admittedly, it is decently special effects […]
In 1996 we didn’t actually need a new version of Neil Simon’s perennial hit play about feuding vaudeville partners when there is already the nigh-on ideal 1975 film The Sunshine Boys with George Burns and […]
Russell Crowe and Christian Bale star in director James Mangold’s strong, gritty, film noir-style 2007 Western, a commendable remake of the 1957 3:10 to Yuma, based on Elmore Leonard’s short story . A well-cast Crowe and Bale give […]
Director James B Clark’s 1963 children’s movie Flipper is remade by writer-director Alan Shapiro in 1996 with Elijah Wood and Paul Hogan to mild effect. Everything is brisk, businesslike and professional but just none too ecxiting. […]
Sparks fly when the boy from The Road (2009) meets the girl from Kick-Ass (2010). Kodi Smit-McPhee plays Owen, a lonely, dorky 12-year-old boy with a telescope, prying on the neighbours. Chloë Grace Moretz plays Abby, apparently […]
Writer-director Can Evrenol makes his feature début, after eight short films, remaking his eighth short Baskin. He goes all out to shock in his Turkish horror movie story that follows a squad of unsuspecting cops who first bicker and […]
The intriguing 2000 thriller film Under Suspicion stars Gene Hackman as a smug lawyer suspected of a girl’s murder, who becomes involved in mind games with the investigating police officer (Morgan Freeman). Director Stephen Hopkins’s […]