Total Recall (2012) DVD Review
Today, we cannot escape from endless movie remakes of what only seems to be barely old. Total Recall falls under that category. It tries to convey a new face for this 1966 novel adaptation and separate itself from its 1990 Schwarzenegger’s unforgettable heavy sci-fi take, but just doesn’t seem to work all that well. In … Read more
Snow White and The Huntsman Review
As many times as one re-tells and re-imagines a new take on a classic tale told many years before we can even remember, it doesn’t mean the newer it is, the better it’ll be. Snow White and the Huntsman took that chance by being the second remake in one year of the same story, with … Read more
Dark Shadows Review
Tim Burton takes us to his usual and familiar realm of grainy film and Goth-like characters for his retake on Dark Shadows, which unfortunately doesn’t quite seem to know how to transgress from its TV show’s roots and a stand-alone piece. With Burton’s favorite cast of characters, this morbid tale tells the story of Barnabas … Read more
Footloose (2011) Review
Remakes nowadays are always welcomed with scepticism. Most of the times, their scopes are missed and their tone is all over the place, or just simply a copy-cat of the original instalment. Although, once in a while, there comes a movie where the studios did a decent job at extracting what worked and what didn’t … Read more
