Re-Make Mondays: Oil Is The Past, JR – Dallas
The respective returns of J.R. Ewing and Jesse Metcalf! What’s not to love?
Re-Make Monday: Hell Is Other People – Let The Right One In
Last year you might have caught moody American vampire chiller, Let Me In, at your local cinema. But did you know it was originally a hit Swedish horror?
Re-Make Mondays: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other – The Thing (2011)
John Carpenter’s 1982 ice-bound identity horror fest, The Thing, is one of those films that grew on audiences and critics hearts’ as the years passed since its mediocre initial reception. Let’s see if 2011’s ice-bound update get’s a less chilly reception.
Re-make Mondays: Reboot ‘Em, Danno – Hawaii Five-0
Long before Law and Order and the hydra-like CSI franchise, there was another brand of American police procedural that was a little lighter in tone, and tended to focus a lot more on the physical assets of the cast than the semantic aspects of a good forty minute whodunnit. Being set in beautful Hawaii didn’t hurt either.
Re-make Mondays: There Goes The Neighbourhood – Shameless
As America staggered from one recession into another, shedding jobs like a dog’s corpse sheds fleas, the viewing public were looking for a new type of entertainment to console them. Enter cable channel Showtime, and their re-make of UK hit, Shameless.
Re-make Monday: Lose Weight Now, Ask Jonah Hill How – 21 Jump Street
Back in 2008, then super-size Superbad star, Jonah Hill, announced he was shopping a script around Hollywood for an updated film adaptation of 21 Jump Street. The final product is set to drop early next year, featuring an oddly puffy looking Channing Tatum, and an extremely less puffy Jonah Hill