Here’s the thing, Helen Mirren, you don’t have to think you are a sex symbol anymore. In fact, saying that you are happy to grow old and not care about your looks just makes you that much sexier. Helen Mirren, no matter how you slice it, you are and always will be one of the hottest sex symbols on the planet. … read more
You think you know Rich Homie Quan. You’ve heard a track or two, now you think he’s Future or Cash Out revamped, right? Here’s the thing: the 23-year-old rapper is not Future. He’s not Cash Out either, although the East Atlanta native grew up just a couple of highway exits away from both artists…. Continue Continue reading →
I’m squeaking and bopping like Deniece Williams, because the new Footloose is both critically hailed and a box office success. Kenny Wormald’s big debut tops the Friday countdown, leading all newcomers by a significant margin — especially the not-so- Big Year .
As we all know by now, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s The Thing is not a remake of John Carpenter’s 1982 The Thing , which in turn wasn’t really a remake of Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby’s 1951 The Thing from Another World . So now we have two Things that are only tangentially related to the first Thing , although the thing about the third Thing is that it explains how the Thing of the second Thing demolished the Norwegian explorers who were dead by the time that Thing was even a thing. The Thing of the third Thing basically does the same thing we saw it do in the second Thing , so the third Thing probably isn’t for you if the second Thing wasn’t your thing.
This Friday, a duo of ’80s remakes, The Thing and Footloose , hit the multiplex. And that’s just the beginning — because Hollywood is currently in various stages of redrafting your favorite films from that decade including Red Dawn , War Games and Dirty Dancing . In honor of this trend, let’s take a look at the most successful ’80s remakes so far and see what made them work.