Tag: remake
Review: GOODNIGHT MOMMY, Irritable Mother Syndrome
Naomi Watts stars in an uneven remake, now streaming globally on Prime Video.
Friday One Sheet: Skinny Teaser for BLACK CHRISTMAS
It is a trick of the eyes that this teaser poster for (another) remake of iconic Slasher picture, Black Christmas, looks longer than your usual 24x36". It is all the BLACK, negative space. While this design is not going to...
Friday One Sheet: Baby It's A COLD PURSUIT Outside...
Cold Pursuit is latest in a series of Liam Neeson revenge pictures. It is a remake of Hans Petter Moland's (here directing again) thriller, In Order Of Disappearance, which starred Stellan Skarsgård and Bruno Ganz. The 2014 version had a...
Review: DOORLOCK, Tense Korean SLEEP TIGHT Remake, Goes the Distance
A slow year for Korean thrillers gets a late shot in the arm with Doorlock, director Lee Kwon's tense remake of Jaume Balagueró's Spanish film Sleep Tight. Completely reworking the original narrative, actress Kong Hyo-jin anchors a story rooted in...
Friday One Sheet: SUSPIRIA In Design
Back to the exceptional key art campaign for Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria remake. For me, this 3 colour 'design 101' minimal poster, and its colour shuffled variant, evoke the iconic poster for Andrej Zulawski's Possession. I mean, not obviously, of course,...
Toronto 2018 Review: WIDOWS, Intelligent and Slick Commercial Cinema
Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez and Elizabeth Debicki star in Steve McQueen's top-quality heist movie.
Sound Over Colour In Luca Guadagnino's SUSPIRIA Teaser
Here is your first full look at the long promised remake of the (arguably) most notable film in Italy's Giallo period -- Dario Argento's technicolor logic-defying nightmare, Suspiria. As most of the regular Screen Anarchy readers probably know already, the...
Review: BELIEVER, Explosive DRUG WAR Remake Puts Faith in Livewire Cast
Korean noir gets an action makeover in Believer, the explosive and hugely entertaining local remake of Johnny To's mainland Chinese crime saga Drug War. A parade of Korean character actors sink their teeth into deliciously over-the-top characters, including the beloved...
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS In Hilarious Trailer For Norwegian Comedy
There's a bit of a Norwegian super-team assembled for upcoming comedy Opportunity Knocks (Norske Byggeklosser) - the new remake of one of the all time classic local pictures. Dead Snow producer Kjetil Omberg, The Bothersome Man producer Jørgen Storm...
10+ Years Later: MIAMI VICE, Exotic, Experimental and Entertaining As Ever
Never before in cinema have two men in expensive suits talking on cellphones on a downtown rooftop looked so beautiful. Perhaps never again. Michael Mann's gloriously expensive 2006 up-scaling of the quasi-camp TV show Miami Vice (on which he served as producer...
THE BEGUILED Trailer Offers Stylish Blood And Sex In A Boarding School For Girls
I am not sure how much of the trailer for Sophia Coppola’s new film, The Beguiled, constitues as spoiler or not. I have never read Thomas P. Cullinan’s novel, "A Painted Devil," nor have I seen the Don Siegel/Clint Eastwood...
WWE Studios Sticks an Ice Pick in Rights For a COLD PREY Remake
Yesterday the announcement came that WWE Studios have secured the rights to remake Roar Uthaug's Norwegian slasher flick Cold Prey from 2006. WWE have also secured to option to purchase a re-write script written by Casey La Scala. Cold Prey...
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON: Max Landis is Remaking His Dad's Cult Classic
Deadline has just dropped a huge bomb on fans of John Landis' cult classic An American Werewolf in London. He is passing on the remake rights to his son, Max, his 'hair' apparent if you will. Landis the Younger will...
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Trailer Delivers Exactly As Expected
So, when word broke that Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt were set to star in a remake of The Magnificent Seven directed by Antoine Fuqua quite a lot of people undoubdetly had a picture in their minds of exactly what...
Review: MARTYRS, A Worthless American Remake
Pascal Laugier's Martyrs is one of the most genuinely disturbing films of the last decade, a peculiar mix of genres from revenge thriller to torture porn that shocks equally for its graphic content and main concept. The inevitable American remake, helmed...
POINT BREAK: Get Behind The Scenes Of The Incredible Stunts
Sometimes in the movies - as in life, really - you've just got to throw a guy out of a plane. Or off a cliff. And how do you do that if you would also prefer not to kill them...
Yuen Woo-ping And Tsui Hark Team Up For MIRACLE FIGHTERS Remake
A pair of Hong Kong film icons are teaming up for the first time in over a decade to bring a new version of an old classic to the big screen.Film Biz Asia report that Yuen Woo-ping will direct a...
Fists Fly In Bondarchuk Produced WARRIOR (Воин) Remake
There's not much in the film world that Russia's Fedor Bondarchuk doesn't do and do very well. One of the nation's most popular actors he is also a hugely acclaimed director (Stalingrad, Inhabited Island, 9th Company)while his Art Pictures Studio...
Exclusive Clip From THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN: Blood On Their Hands
Have you seen the original version of The Town That Dreaded Sundown? It pretty much hit the sweet spot of Southern horror / low-budget "truthfulness," as director Charles B. Pierce gave the material a faux-documentary look and appeal that helped...
It's A Turkey Shoot In This Exclusive Clip From Jon Hewitt's ELIMINATION GAME
Acolytes and X director Jon Hewitt remakes 1980s Ozploitation classic Turkey Shoot with Elimination Game in which Dominic Purcell stars as a disgraced former army officer forced to fight for his life in a live televised game show. Yep, the...
