Remakers Mark

I was going to tell a time travel joke but you guys didn’t like it. After a hiatus for our European tour, Remaker’s Mark is back with the conclusion of our episode on Twelve Monkeys. So much Terry Gilliamness! Is it too much, yet somehow not enough? Place your bets on who gave this the […]

Quiet, but not in the charming way. Because we like messing with the time-space continuum, we decided to take on Terry Gilliam’s 1995 film Twelve Monkeys. Or did this already happen in the past? Why do you look familiar? I’ve seen you before… Twelve Monkeys Terry Gilliam Bruce Willis Madeleine Stowe Brad Pitt Remakers Mark […]

We were all using our very best NPR voices… Part 3 (WHAT?!) of our discussion of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is here, in which we discuss our alpha test episode from way back in 2012, and how our picks (and the whole dang podcast itself) have changed since then. Andy is still proud of his […]

No Ubers in Stubbsville Welcome to part two of our discussion of Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, in which we coin a term for a new mashup genre, discuss our least favorite movies to remake, talk about so many sexy statistics, and about the Hughesian properties of this movie, which are very Hughesian indeed. Planes, Trains […]

Cumberbatch and Streep at Nebraska Welcome to a remake of a remake, ladies and gentlemen. In honor of our 50th regular episode, we decided to go back to our roots and remake our very first beta episode about Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. The original episode lies in the secret vaults, locked up in a wooden […]

He says ‘baby’ so much! Now listen here…we’re going to talk about Double Indemnity again and you’re going to like it, see. Along the way, we fired up our weird dictaphones, and took a deep dive into Film Noir, both old and new (including some modern examples that we highly recommend…*coughBRICKcough*), and the goods and […]

There’s serious air quotes over ‘serious role’ there… Listen, baby, and listen good. We take on the noir-est of all films, Double Indemnity, the darkest movie about insurance fraud you’ll ever see. This is the third Billy Wilder project we’ve covered, so we either really like his movies or think they all stink. The jury […]

They’re basically trying to create Wakanda for Wizards Welcome to the ultimate, the omega, the end-all of Hidden Gems. Mark presents the 1982 Rankin and Bass animated film, The Flight of Dragons, featuring an impressive, if haphazard, cast of voice acting talent, and an unusual explanation of the physiology of dragon flight and fire-breathing. (Hint: […]

Americans…the only thing worse than dragons. Here in part two of our discussion of 2002’s post-apocalyptic dragon adventure film Reign of Fire, we reveal our big re-casting winners, go deep on dragons in the film (including it’s intriguing blend of fantasy creature and animal), look at the performances (looking at you, Over-the-Top-Aughey), and wonder if […]

It’s basically a remake of ‘My Little Pony’ Today we talk about 2002’s Reign of Fire, which features Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale as leaders of competing schools of thought on how to deal with dragons. McConaughey wants to kill them all, Bale wants to run and hide. Both look like they’re gearing up for […]

Quieter than Tarantino, more charming than Aronofsky In the penultimate installment of our Hidden Gems mini-series, Lee offers up 2011’s Violet and Daisy for our consideration. A small-budget film with an even smaller box office take, it features Saoirse Ronan, and Alexis Bledel as a pair of teenage assassins trying to make enough money for rent and cool dresses, […]

Mental illness is an element of a person’s existence; it is not the entirety of it. In the second half of our discussion of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, we get real with mental health, both personally and regards to its representation in film over the years. We also talk about the power dynamics […]

He’s a…Ne’er Do Well / Scoundrel / Gadabout / Ragamuffin / Scallywag You wanna get nuts? Let’s get nuts. We tackled One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, one of only three films to sweep the major Academy Award categories (Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night in 1934 and Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs in […]

In episode 46, we remade the 1987 classic Predator. And then we remembered that someone made a…not a remake, but a sequel (tri-quel?) to the franchise in 2018, creatively titled The Predator. We decide to talk about it! Some of us loved it, some of us did not, some of us insisted that “tri-quel” is […]

They need to access their skills and training, and they don’t…they just shoot at trees…A LOT. We continue our discussion of 1987’s Predator, wherein we describe our favorite traps, the thought experiment of Schrödinger’s Cat (and whether or not it is, in fact, a trap), and how Jer has said “fantastic” wrong all this time. […]

Welcome to our yearly tribute to those actors, actresses, directors, and personalities that we lost during 2018. While it’s sad that they are no longer with us, we always enjoy being able to celebrate them, their work, and what they meant to us. Penny Marshall (IMDB | Wikipedia) Harry Anderson (IMDB | Wikipedia) Margot Kidder […]

They just took a really muscle-y guy and put a bad tie on him After taking a sabbatical of sorts, this is our first new recording in a good long time, and we come out of the gate strong with our discussion of the 1987 alien action film, ‘Predator’. Here we take on recasting the […]

Should…should I be watching old-person movies now?? Welcome to part 2 of our discussion of Sneakers. In it we discuss the unfortunate casting tropes of women in caper movies, how we (or one of us) have gotten to the age where we say “warmth” wrong, how we (or one of us) have gotten to the […]

Editorial Note: As you can tell by the dated references in this episode (“Laura Dern is in the upcoming Star Wars movie”), this was recorded many moons ago, and certainly before the accusations of sexual assault came out against Kevin Spacey. We certainly do not condone or endorse said behavior, and are very much okay […]

It’s two-fer time in this Special Episode, where we tackle two topics in one go, recorded live at our yearly visit to Wicks/Miller Cottage this past August. First, we discuss ‘The Sore Thumb’ – movies where one casting choice sticks out like a, well, sore thumb, and makes you say whaaaaa? Second, we reveal our […]