Category: Remakes and Reboots
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Movie Review – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
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Going in, I had moderately high expectations. It started off rough with a few clunky scenes, but then it got better. I enjoyed most of the middle part of the movie. But then, as it went on, it went off the rails. By the end, I couldn’t wait for it to be over. The Good…
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Movie Review: Mean Girls (2024)
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The Plastics are back. The reboot of Mean Girls has got a few good callbacks to the original, but mostly this 2024 version doesn’t impress. You need to know this remake is a musical. The songs are pretty continual, and so much of the crucial story was truncated in favor of making the movie fit…
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TV Review – Creepshow
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Ah…1982! I was young, slim, and active. I won’t say “athletic” but I was a bit more that the three dimensional stain in my armchair that I am now. Over forty years ago was when the original film version of Creepshow was made and, rather surprisingly, it took until 2019 before the format was reused.…
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Theatre Review – The Verdict…s?
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I don’t think it is any secret that I like a good courtroom drama; this is, in no small part, thanks to my mother who was always watching things like Crown Court, Rumpole Of The Bailey, and The Main Chance. In my list of favourite films there are four that feature dramatic courtroom scenes; Bridge…
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Ghostbusters 3: Afterlife – An Original Cast Ghostbusters Teaser Trailer
I’m on board for the upcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Also, it might make me rewatch Ghostbusters 2. MAYBE. Not sure I can stomach it — number 2 was that bad. But really, this is the time to pull this series out of the dust bin, since most of the main players are still at large and…
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No Time To Die Again: Views Following A Bond 25 Re-Watch
Elsewhere there are my initial thoughts on No Time To Die as well as Dan’s first impressions. Maybe because we had slightly different views on Daniel Craig’s final outing as Bond I thought I’d go back and take another look. This wasn’t a hardship to me in the slightest; I knew it would be a…
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The Giant James Bond Rewatch – Casino Royale (2006)
I don’t know for sure, but I’m fairly confident that when the next Bond is announced the collective sphincters at Eon Productions will be decidedly twitchy. They must have been going like a randy spaniel at a Miss Lovely Legs competition when Casino Royale was announced. More realistically, the tension arose thanks to the casting…
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Movie Review – Candyman
Where do I start? I’ve been staring at my screen for about an hour trying to come up with a review. I asked the man in charge (my brother, the CEO/Founder) if I could simply put “Meh.” That’s about it. He’d like a little more, so here it goes. Tony Todd as the Candyman. There…
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Movie Review – Cruella
Let me start by apologizing for not being able to do Peetimes on the opening night, cause I got sick in the theater. Dan and I went back and watched it together the next day, and we both agreed this movie is hard to do Peetimes for. While the movie is longish, it’s tight. There…
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Star Trek Movies and the Bechdel Test — How do they stand up after all this time?
I wrote an article on how the Star Wars films stood up to the Bechdel Test, which is a simple measurement to determine whether any named female characters have a conversation about something other than men. This is not a stance for feminist debate so much as an observation. For what it’s worth, lets dive…
