If the original film was something of a feminist diatribe, the undercurrent of the remake is plainly reactionary. |
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It can also be a wallowing in the past and all the wrongs it wrought, a desire to return and settle the score, to remake what we regret. |
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Generally I don't like remakes, or rather, I don't like the idea of a remake. |
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So can you please do us a favour and sweep the pitch and remake the creases? |
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Watch out for a streamlined and thus completely uninteresting Hollywood remake in a theatre near you soon. |
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It is time for Labour in Scotland to remake the argument for the Union on a modern basis. |
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John Carpenter, who directed and co-wrote the original is producing the remake. |
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Between 1984 and 1987 he personified our inchoate desire to shake free of the Muldoon years and remake ourselves in a bolder, prouder way. |
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Then you can remake the bed with the other bedding and it is ready for use. |
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In the first instance, that will mean rebalancing the efforts to remake the ground and the air services. |
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This is the setting for the new film Starsky and Hutch, which, contrary to popular belief, is not a remake. |
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That the candidate also had significant executive branch experience and helped remake whole areas of the law was immaterial. |
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In the 1980s the two institutions launched a crusade to remake the world in the image of the free market. |
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In the wake of the demise of the Roman Empire, European peasants, nobles and clergyman had to literally remake their lives. |
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Had he been alive, I might have tried to get him a bit part in the remake of Lassie Come Home, which is to be filmed in Ireland. |
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He is not a guy in a monkey suit in the new remake by the Oscar winning director. |
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A pointless remake of the 1968 classic, this features Mark Wahlberg as an astronaut who crash-lands on a planet that is run by simians. |
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He has already publicly backed the idea of a remake and is quoted in the prospectus issued to potential investors in the movie. |
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This alleged remake of the classic Sixties Brit heist flick has been Hollywoodised out of existence. |
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An all-star cast fills this remake of a classic 1960 Rat Pack film about a crook who organizes a big heist. |
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However, this remake promises to be quite different from the usual Bollywood style. |
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Nick Love could have sleepwalked his way through this remake, which is exactly what he's done. |
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Far from tickling anyone pink, this unnecessary remake is more likely to turn viewers red with rage. |
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He's so appalled by the remake that he wants his name removed from all the promotional material. |
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Well, like a bad remake of The Paper Chase, I found myself in a required humanities seminar on historiography. |
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He's going to remake the socket, building in a soft rubber pad and extra space to accommodate the troublesome bone. |
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Bedazzled is a remake, always popular when producers are low on original ideas. |
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The technology of virtual education can revise or remake the limits, which are given us by our histories and by nature. |
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How do you feel that it took a remake of one of your films to put you back into the spotlight? |
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When the haves remake a culture, the people who pay the price are the have-nots. |
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I feel happy until they start to remake the bed with shiny new sheets that glisten in bleached starchiness. |
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While the remake of Japanese horror might be novel, remaking a film has become standard Hollywood practice. |
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Which brings us to Dawn of the Dead, a loose remake of the second movie in Romero's notorious trilogy. |
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The star of the Alfie remake has attacked the tabloid press for invading his privacy. |
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Does that mean that you are really intending to do a remake of the film that was done 15 years ago with Jack Nicholson? |
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Making a remake of my original movie was a big challenge and also fun, that's why I took the offer to direct. |
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This remake of the 1968 film, Planet of the Apes, has been on the drawing board for a long time. |
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The film is a remake of a 1977 film which saw George Segal and Jane Fonda playing a married couple who turn to crime to pay the bills. |
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It's common practice for Hollywood to remake an old movie, but today's news must be some kind of record. |
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As you may know, this film is a remake of the 1931 Oscar winning movie of the same name. |
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It's not a remake of the film, though, but a proper sequel that picks up where the story left off. |
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The current remake of the film updates those fears for the post-Cold War era and a new set of concerns. |
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We'd do a film together if somebody came up with an idea that wasn't a remake or a repeat or a sequel. |
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We are presented with a glorious opportunity to remake our legal system from the ground up, and I suggest we take it by the ears and run with it. |
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Cronenberg fashions a remake of the cheesy 1958 original that is by turns funny, poignant, repulsive, and intense. |
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I suspect this remake, now satirising post-feminist America and suburban life itself, may raise more laughs here than on its home turf. |
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Quite frankly, American film studios are going about this remake business all wrong. |
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Grand designs to remake nations are dreamed up in the groves of academe and the corridors of power. |
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The Anglo-French art duo are making a shot-for-shot remake using members of the public. |
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The Bandai-published remake delivers the best of both ages, making over retro robot designs with flashy modern animation. |
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That's when he inherited the CEO post and set out to remake the company around a new flagship product, the digital signal processor chip. |
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Today, the 50-year-old looks every inch the cowboy that he plays in the remake of the classic Western. |
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Jennifer Lopez tries shimmying back into her fans' hearts by teaching Richard Gere to rumba in this remake of the Japanese hit. |
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What are your thoughts on this remake after having seen this ridic movie trailer? |
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The first mission of you women is to remake yourself in the image and likeness of the Divine Female Principle, the female aspect of God. |
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In an age of cinema that favours familiarity, remake and rehash, this director remains one of the few remaining apostles of the pioneer spirit. |
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Flying into Fairbanks in the winter is odd, because the town is covered by a fog bank, sort of like the island in the remake of King Kong. |
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The remake tells the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. |
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A remake of the lilting Irving Berlin ditty Blue Skies began playing as the lights came up. |
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This is a remake of a 1977 film starring Jane Fonda and George Segal as suburban bank robbers. |
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If we reason aright, they believe, we shall remake people and thereby remake the world. |
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For the moment he's playing Charlize Theron's father in the forthcoming remake of The Italian Job, co-starring Mark Wahlberg. |
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The original actor set the standard here for a lyrically beautiful loser, for which this remake actor is physically unqualified. |
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Do they go with another dud sequel, maybe even a prequel, or do they just remake the original? |
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It'll be interesting to see how the original director makes out in the wake of the Dawn of the Dead remake. |
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Walt Disney Pictures proudly presents the remake of the beloved 1949 adventure film, Mighty Joe Young. |
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The original trilogy is an absolute classic in my opinion so I would be surprised if I ever would like a remake. |
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Why should the prospect of another remake prompt groans and feelings of weariness? |
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House on Haunted Hill is a remake of a 1959 Vincent Price movie directed by schlockmeister William Castle. |
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Problems with friction and discomfort have forced my prosthetist to remake the socket three times. |
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But what exactly is a reboot, and how does it differ from a remake, a revamp or a re-imagining? |
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None, however, have been as all-out cute as this one, a shot-for-shot remake of the teaser with dogs and cats. |
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Plus, his remake history is a mixed bag, with the solid True Grit and the atrocious Oldboy. |
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The studio also acquired the remake rights to the documentary The Bengali Detective. |
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I suspect that the new Tarzan will run into the same problems that beset the recent Lone Ranger remake. |
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But he breathed vibrant, hilarious, oh-so-fabulous life into the classic 1996 remake. |
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If proposing a remake is generally an addlebrained conceit, how ridiculous is it to suggest reworking a movie by one of the greatest filmmakers of all time? |
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Dillinger is the country boy gone wrong, and Hoover is another prissy remake of Captain Bligh as delivered by Charles Laughton. |
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According to Lee, the remake had a 140-minute cut that he and Brolin preferred, but the distributor slashed it to 105 minutes. |
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Feminists are the new comic book geeks, and the women-led Ghostbusters remake will dominate the box office. |
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Being a remake, the film really needs to keep the basic plot intact. |
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One of the keys to the success of the 2001 remake was the film score. |
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Mr. Childs, an experienced builder of skyscrapers, is in the sensitive position of representing a client who believes he can remake the plan for his own purposes. |
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I did a piece for Elle about the effort to remake her into an elegant presence fashion-wise. |
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This year, she starred as the protagonist Nancy Holbrook in the remake of the 1980s horror movie A Nightmare on elm Street. |
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The series is more a continuation of the Ewing family saga 20 years later than it is a remake. |
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If footloose, the Kevin Bacon film from 1984, ever gets an Asian remake, Tokyo might be the place to shoot it. |
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The idea was to remake it in a slicker and, of course, more costly version. |
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The remake is from the perspective of the shark, which was quietly going about its business when it was savagely hunted down by cold-blooded predators. |
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It started out as a low-budget telemovie, which was followed by a sequel, and then there were cinema versions of both, and now there's a Hollywood remake. |
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From the original to the remake, they seem to have completely changed where the story's going, because the backstory to the child is completely different. |
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The in-flight movie was the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, about a politician who receives instructions whispered into his ear by outside manipulators. |
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The stepford Wives This so-bad-it's-good stepford Wives remake is well worth a revisit. |
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Forget the dreadful musical remake, Nine, which missed all the impudent wit of the Fellini original. |
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Smith received an Oscar nomination for the role, and Jaden would later gain more success with a remake of The karate Kid. |
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In fact, several characters look to shed their skin, to remake themselves, to find a leeward point from which to leap. |
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Not one of them cared a toothpick for the Republican Party of their time and each struggled mightily to remake it. |
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His blood-soaked remake is definitely a hit and has become an important touchstone in hip-hop and rap culture with its inverted portrayal of the American Dream. |
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A film that has inspired moviemakers for decades, King Kong has finally come to DVD, just in time for its big screen remake by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson. |
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Series creator Jason Gann plays Wilfred in both the Australian original and the American remake. |
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Activist investor Bill Ackman had sought to remake Penney under the leadership of former Apple executive Ron Johnson. |
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I'd still like to see a stylish remake of this classic tale. |
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If there is one category of horror movies that scares the pants off me, it's zombies, and this remake certainly got me jumping and twitching in my seat. |
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In this remake of Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Adam Sandler's inheritance includes John Turturro as a butler with a fetish for men's feet. |
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The film was faithful to the series we grew up with but worked well with the playful conceit that the film was itself about a remake of the tv show. |
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If you're looking to de-stress or to remake yourself, this is the place with everything from yoga, Ayurvedic programs and both Western and Oriental therapies. |
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As with the genome, the internet was going to transform our lives, remake society, abolish boom and bust, bring everlasting peace and make the Tories unelectable forever. |
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Mirren's next film was the comedy film Arthur, a remake of the 1981 film of the same name, starring Russell Brand in the lead role. |
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Jackson in the remake of RoboCop, as Norton, the scientist who creates RoboCop. |
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Christopher Lee, will be disappointed by this remake, even in this director's cut. |
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In the 2007 remake of Sleuth, Caine took over the role Laurence Olivier played in the 1972 version and Jude Law played Caine's original role. |
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The latest rumour is that Ajay will be doing Priyadarshan's next film and that this would be the remake of the Hollywood film Speed. |
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It had been hoped any remake would be shot at the Italianate village designed by architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. |
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Jade will join the likes of runner Mo Farah, oarswoman Katherine Grainger and the triathlon Brownlee brothers in a one-off remake of Superstars. |
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He makes Rip Van Winkle look like a catnapper and if they ever did a remake of The Big Sleep then McCoy would make a perfect Humphrey Bogart. |
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In the remake of the 1955 Ealing comedy, Hanks plays the leader of a criminal gang which tries in vain to bump off its elderly landlady. |
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The winner secures the potentially lucrative job of novelizing a remake of the 1960s Bmovie classic, The Crawling Hand. |
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This idea might have livened up the remake of The Stepford Wives, but, oh, well. |
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We do not ask them to follow what has been meaningful to us, but that they help us refind and remake our own faith. |
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The 1989 classic martial arts-action flick Kickboxer, which starred Jean Claude Van Damme, is getting a remake. |
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His last words are quoted in The Gambler, a 2014 remake of the 1974 James Caan film of the same name. |
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This frills-free remake of a stonefaced Charles Bronson thriller shows that murder is a cut-throat business. |
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This performance led to him being offered the lead role in the 1996 TV remake of Poldark. |
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Rejecting calls to completely remake the street grid, San Franciscans opted for speed. |
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Negotiations then stalled when Universal Studios offered Jackson a remake of King Kong. |
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Arnold also contributed the main themes to Kevin Kiner's score for Activision's GoldenEye 007, the remake of the 1997 game of the same name. |
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We made it through Melrose Place and the short-lived Melrose Place remake. |
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A remake of the French classic Wages Of Fear, Sorcerer is about a bunch of drifters driving a cargo of unstable gelignite through the South American jungle. |
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William Haber, launches upon this unique opportunity to jettison his own dronish existence, and remake the world to match his personal vision of utopia. |
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Moreover, Pole was determined to do more than remake the past. |
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House of Wax Competent update remake of the 50s horror as the usual bunch of teenage bodybag fodder get bumped off by a sicko killer who turns his victims into wax models. |
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The attempt to remake nature in terms of grace and to restructure the world according to other-worldly postulates resulted in the eventual loss of transcendent otherhood. |
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Today, Mrs. Khan shares a room in a dreary nursing home on the fringes of Houston, paralyzed from midchest down and tormented by a fateful choice to try to remake her life. |
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And by small but integral, I mean that for four freezing cold days during December 2004, I secured a job as an extra in the latest remake of Greyfriars Bobby. |
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So do we really want a remake of this cult gem as modern television with shaky handheld camerawork, artful slo-mo, f-words and sets that don't shake? |
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A body within the Puritan movement in the Church of England sought to abolish the office of bishop and remake the Church of England along Presbyterian lines. |
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