Tag: remake

Child’s Play

“Happiness is about more than being entertained,” Henry Kaslan, founder and CEO of the Kaslan Corporation, in the launch video for the second wave of their Buddi dolls.
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The Watcher in the Woods

The cycles of time repeat, solstices and eclipses and the rituals which have become associated with them through decades and centuries of repetition, their original meanings distorted or
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Flatliners

There is no place for second best in the team of medical students supervised by Doctor Barry Wolfson, for those who wish to get by with the minimum
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Ghostbusters

It’s agreed upon by many psychologists and sociologists and too easily accepted that humans are inherently prejudiced. This is not to say that all societies are rampantly sexist/racist/homophobic,
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Poltergeist

When a reboot/remake/reimagining (choose your own variant of cliché) exits the Hollywood studios these days, it is a hard internal struggle to remain open-minded and judge the film
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We Are What We Are

It’s the quiet ones you have to watch out for. Released in 2010, Jim Mickle’s Stake Land arrived without huge fanfare, the bold individuality of the production belying
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RoboCop

For all the largely justified despondency generated by the endless cycle of unwanted sequels and unnecessary remakes, few have generated as much vitriol as the announcement that Paul
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Carrie

With the publication of Carrie in the spring of 1974, debut novelist Stephen King made horror commonplace, suburban, modern and real. Carrie White was unusual, both protagonist and
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