remake

  • ‘Accused’: Fox’s new legal drama cross-examines preconceptions…

    It would be tempting to say a drama concerned in any way with a potential mass-shooting seems unusually tragic in a week when there have been two (now at least THREE) multi-victim incidents grabbing the real-life headlines – but sadly, the truth is that you could place such a...
  • Texas Shuffle as sequel suffers ‘Night of the Long Chainsaws’?

    Industry site Deadline is reporting that the new proposed sequel to Tobe Hooper’s  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, may be having a bloodbath of its own with news that directors Andy and Ryan Tohill have abruptly left the production in the last 48 hours. The film was only a week into filming...
  • Face/Off is ON again – transplanting to modern remake…

    The 1997 action-fest that was Face/Off was one of those productions that could only have come from Hollywood executives spit-balling wild concepts for their biggest stars and deciding to go with the most out-there result. The film, as much a vehicle for director John Woo (his most profitable US...
  • Peak Performance for ‘Cliffhanger’ remake?

    Those of a certain age will remember the 1993 Sly Stallone action adventure movie Cliffhanger, directed by Renny Harlin and in which Stallone played Gabe Walker, a rescue mountaineer… one who finds that the people he’s about to ‘rescue’ need him for more nefarious purposes. The film also starred...
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