Tag: 1987

• Remake These Movies (?)

  You don’t have to be a cinephile to realize that Hollywood has run out of ideas — at least the original ones. Studios churn out the remakes with reckless abandon these days- sorry, actually, their versions are reimagined. That’s fancy talk for taking the barest plot outlines, characters and, most importantly, the title and updating them for…

  goldread

  2012-12-17

  ’80s, Entertainment, Movies, Pop Culture

  1987, 1995, 2005, 2010s, 3 Men and A Baby, Bad Boy, Ben Vereen, Christian Bale, Donald Glover, Footloose, George Clooney, Hollywood, James Franco, Jim Carrey, Kicking and Screaming, Leonard Nimoy, Miami Sound Machine, Noah Baumbach, North Koreans, Ocean’s 11, Paul Newman, Red Dawn, Sandra Bullock, Seth Rogen, St. Elmo’s Fire, Steve McQueen, The Karate Kid, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Will Ferrell

• Tepid Questions, Part II

  A veritable smorgasbord of things that have been gnawing away at me recently. And yes, I did spend about five minutes unsuccessfully attempting to find on the keyboard how to place the diacritics in the word “smorgasbord.” And yes, I spent another two minutes looking up what the two dots and the circle are called. Take the “Gov” off? Why…

  goldread

  2012-10-05

  Rants

  1987, 2007, 2012, 2015, Manhattan, Mitt Romney, Oz: The Great and Powerful, Scrubs, Zach Braff