Sick, twisted, Funny Games is enjoyable

Be Sociable, Share! Tweet Funny Games is a disturbing, and at times frustrating and infuriating, but overall entertaining thriller, which is probably just the result German writer-director Michael Haneke wanted. A scene-for-scene remake of Haneke’s own original 1997 Austrian-made version, it stars two seasoned campaigners in Naomi Watts, who also co-produced, and Tim Roth as [...]

Latest remake should be a real howler (meaning a laughably stupid blunder)

TEEN Wolf looks as though it will be joining the painfully long list of movies getting the remake treatment.

11 Questionable Remakes & Their Status

Be Sociable, Share! Tweet Hollywood is continuing its unrelenting push for everything old to become new again – even those not so old.  While remakes have been around since the start of last century when A Wringing Good Joke (1899) got such treatment the following year, they have been coming thicker and faster with each [...]

Abrams’ Enterprise bargaining pays off

Be Sociable, Share! Tweet I’ve never been much of a Star Trek fan. Always been in the Star Wars camp when it came to picking sci-fi sides. You could say I know more about tractor beams than transporter beams. But, having just watched the new Star Trek film, I’m thinking about swapping teams. Trading in [...]

The movie that made this viewer sigh

Be Sociable, Share! Tweet Not sure about it being The Day The Earth Stood Still. It may have been still but it was more due to the fact it was put to sleep. While it was getting late in the evening, I found myself dozing off towards the end of watching this extremely lacklustre remake [...]