Posts Tagged ‘remake’

Some people aren’t aware that Buffy The Vampire Slayer originated as a terrible and forgettable nineties “comedic” vampire flick. At the time Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy, was so upset over how the idiot producers and director butchered his original screenplay that he retooled the concept for television and eventually sold the show — although [...]

John Carpenter’s 1981 film Escape From New York is a kick ass dystopian sci-fi action adventure that features one eyed bad ass Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) infiltrating the big apple, which has been converted into a maximum security prison, in order to save the President after Air Force One crashes in Manhattan. The latest Hollywood [...]

Do you hear that?  The furious clickety-clack of angry fingers on a keyboard?  That’s the sound of me canceling my EW subscription. In a stunningly idiotic review that was posted in the October 8th edition of Entertainment Weekly, film critic Chris Nashawaty declares that Jaden Smith’s recently released on DVD remake is a superior film [...]