Posts Tagged ‘remake’

Cape Fear (1991)

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Nick Nolte | Jessica Lange | Juliette Lewis | Joe Don Baker | Robert Mitchum | Gregory Peck | Martin Balsam | Illeana Douglas | Fred Dalton Thompson | Zully Montero | Craig Henne | Forest Burton | Edgar Allan Poe IV | Rod Ball
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/”Leave It to Beaver”-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady’s rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Charlotte’s Web (2006)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Julia Roberts | Steve Buscemi | John Cleese | Oprah Winfrey | Cedric the Entertainer | Kathy Bates | Reba McEntire | Robert Redford | Thomas Haden Church | André Benjamin | Dominic Scott Kay | Sam Shepard | Abraham Benrubi | Dakota Fanning | Kevin Anderson
Directors: Gary Winick
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Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Rene Russo | Denis Leary | Ben Gazzara | Frankie Faison | Fritz Weaver | Charles Keating | Mark Margolis | Faye Dunaway | Michael Lombard | Bill Ambrozy | Michael Bahr | Robert D. Novak | Joe H. Lamb | James Saito
Directors: John McTiernan
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Self-made billionaire Thomas Crown is bored of being able to buy everything he desires. Being irresistible to women, he also does not feel any challenge in that area. But there are a few things even he can’t get, therefore Thomas Crown has a seldom hobby: He steals priceless masterpieces of Art. After the theft of a famous painting from Claude Monet, the only person suspecting Thomas Crown is Catherine Banning. Her job is to get the picture back, no matter how she accomplishes her mission. Unfortunately, Catherine gets involved too deeply with Thomas to keep a professional distance to the case. Fortunately, Thomas seems to fall for her, too.

The Evil Dead (1981)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Campbell | Ellen Sandweiss | Richard DeManincor | Betsy Baker | Theresa Tilly | Philip A. Gillis | Dorothy Tapert | Cheryl Guttridge | Barbara Carey | David Horton | Wendall Thomas | Don Long | Stu Smith
Directors: Sam Raimi
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Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods where they find unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find the Necronomicon and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only one remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.

Black Christmas (2006)

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Katie Cassidy | Michelle Trachtenberg | Lacey Chabert | Kristen Cloke | Andrea Martin | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Crystal Lowe | Oliver Hudson | Jessica Harmon | Leela Savasta | Kathleen Kole | Karin Konoval | Robert Mann | Dean Friss | Cainan Wiebe
Directors: Glen Morgan
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Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she’d come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father’s brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he’d witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a “new” family. As Billy’s mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling pin to his mother’s head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved in one eye… but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard has been monitoring Billy’s progress since he came into his care, back in 1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding… until now. Far away, his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together …but tonight they’re about to get a surprise visitor… and it’s not Santa.

The Heartbreak Kid (2007)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Stiller | Michelle Monaghan | Jerry Stiller | Malin Akerman | Carlos Mencia | Rob Corddry | Stephanie Courtney | Ali Hillis | Kathy Lamkin | Nicol Paone | Joel Bryant | E.E. Bell | Jeff Bredt | David Hodges | Roy Jenkins
Directors: Bobby Farrelly
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The story centers on a man who is convinced that he has finally met the right girl and marries too quickly. While on his honeymoon and in the process of discovering that his new bride is a nightmare, he meets the girl of his dreams.

The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Alex Rebar | Burr DeBenning | Myron Healey | Michael Alldredge | Ann Sweeny | Lisle Wilson | Cheryl Smith | Julie Drazen | Stuart Edmond Rodgers | Chris Witney | Edwin Max | Dorothy Love | Janus Blythe | Jonathan Demme | Westbrook Claridge
Directors: William Sachs
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Astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn’s rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.

No Reservations (2007)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones | Aaron Eckhart | Abigail Breslin | Patricia Clarkson | Jenny Wade | Bob Balaban | Brian F. O'Byrne | Lily Rabe | Eric Silver | Arija Bareikis | John McMartin | Celia Weston | Zöe Kravitz | Matthew Rauch | Dearbhla Molloy
Directors: Scott Hicks
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A master chef, Kate (CATHERINE ZETA-JONES) lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan—with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivattes and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, preparing delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection.

Alfie (2004)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jude Law | Renée Taylor | Jane Krakowski | Jeff Harding | Marisa Tomei | Kevin Rahm | Max Morris | Omar Epps | Nia Long | Gedde Watanabe | Jo Yang | Tara Summers | Sam Vincenti | Katherine LaNasa | Claudette Mink
Directors: Charles Shyer
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Alfie is a remake of the 1966 film. In the contemporary film, Alfie is quite the ladies man and rarely gets rejected when it comes to the opposite sex. He successfully has relations with multiple women without a hint of emotional attachment. A major (lifelong) problem arises when he sleeps with the wrong woman, namely his best friend’s (and future business partner) ex-girlfriend. As a result, his life slowly comes into focus and he begins to appreciate the little things he always missed in the opposite sex. A must see for all guys who call themselves “players”.

Oscar (1991)

Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Riegert | Chazz Palminteri | Joey Travolta | Paul Greco | Sylvester Stallone | Richard Foronjy | Yvonne De Carlo | Don Ameche | Richard Romanus | Arleen Sorkin | Eddie Bracken | Tony Munafo | Robert Lesser | Art LaFleur | Kurtwood Smith
Directors: John Landis
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Angelo “Snaps” Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise. He is faced with numerous problems: henchmen who know nothing but crime, the police who are convinced he is hatching a master plan, and Oscar, who has just got his daughter pregnant.

Lord of the Flies (1990)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Balthazar Getty | Chris Furrh | Danuel Pipoly | James Badge Dale | Andrew Taft | Edward Taft | Gary Rule | Terry Wells | Braden MacDonald | Angus Burgin | Martin Zentz | Brian Jacobs | Vincent Amabile | David Weinstein | Chuck Bell
Directors: Harry Hook
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Adapted from William Golding’s novel of the same name, this is the story of a group of military school boys who become stranded on an island. They are, however, not alone. To begin with their commander is dragged from the water by Ralph. It is after the commander becomes feverish and delusional that he runs away and the boys develop their own society, with frightening and powerful consequences.

The Lion King 1½ (2004)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Nathan Lane | Ernie Sabella | Julie Kavner | Jerry Stiller | Matthew Broderick | Robert Guillaume | Moira Kelly | Whoopi Goldberg | Cheech Marin | Jim Cummings | Edward Hibbert | Jason Rudofsky | Matt Weinberg | Tony Anselmo | Jeff Bennett
Directors: Bradley Raymond
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Imagine a cross between _Lion King, The (1994)_ (qv) and _Back to the Future Part II (1989)_ (qv). This is a separate story thread, that of Timon and Pumbaa, intertwined with the original story. Thus, along with seeing new events (e.g. Timon’s departure from the meerkat colony, Timon and Pumbaa’s first meeting, the origin of “Hakuna Matata”), we get to see a new perspective on (and some previously unseen causes for) some of the events in the original film. Oh, and the whole thing is told in a _”Mystery Science Theater 3000″ (1988)_ (qv) framework, with Timon and Pumbaa narrating and interacting with the “onscreen” movie.

Appleseed (2004)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan
Actors: Ai Kobayashi | Jûrôta Kosugi | Yuki Matsuoka | Asumi Miwa | Akimoto Tsubasa | Jack Aubree | William Bassett | Michael Forest | Yuzuru Fujimoto | William Knight | Takehito Koyasu | Steve Kramer | Michael McConnohie | Toshiyuki Morikawa | Ryûji Nakagi
Directors: Shinji Aramaki
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In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?

Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Tony Shalhoub | Embeth Davidtz | Matthew Lillard | Shannon Elizabeth | Alec Roberts | JR Bourne | Rah Digga | F. Murray Abraham | Matthew Harrison | Jacob Rupp | Mike Crestejo | Aubrey Culp | Charles Andre | Mikhael Speidel | Daniel Wesley
Directors: Steve Beck
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Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus’s estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby’s Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine “designed by the devil and powered by the dead” to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

Cube (1997)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Nicole de Boer | Nicky Guadagni | David Hewlett | Andrew Miller | Julian Richings | Wayne Robson | Maurice Dean Wint
Directors: Vincenzo Natali
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Six different people, each from a very different walk of life, awaken to find themselves inside a giant cube with thousands of possible rooms. Each has a skill that becomes clear when they must band together to get out: a cop, a math whiz, a building designer, a doctor, an escape master, and a disabled man. Each plays a part in their thrilling quest to find answers as to why they’ve been imprisoned.