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Jun 25, 2024 · The Call(2020) This timey-wimey sci-fi thriller involves Seo-yeon (Park Shin-hye) visiting her childhood home in 2019, only to discover that an old cordless phone still works, and connects her to ...
- 15 'Cheaper by The Dozen'
- 14 'Freaky'
- 13 'I Am Legend'
- 12 'The Mummy'
- 11 'West Side Story'
- 10 'War of The Worlds'
- 9 'It: Chapter 1 and 2'
- 8 'A Star Is Born'
- 7 'Little Women'
- 6 'His Girl Friday'
Director: Shawn Levy
The 1950 comedy film inspired by the autobiographical novel of the same name, Cheaper by the Dozen was originally a movie adaptation of the real-life Gilbrethfamily. However, 2003’s remake by Shawn Levy actively moved away from its autobiographical inspirations to instead focus on its own fictional oversized family – the Bakers. With iconic comedic performances from Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, 2003’s Cheaper by the Dozen was a classic family film that found relevance in the early 2000s. Wit...
Director: Christopher Landon
Based on a 1972 children’s book by Mary Rodgers, Freaky Friday has seen several adaptations, most notably the 2003 film starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Freaky Fridayfollows a mother and daughter constantly bickering until one day they wake up to find that they have swapped bodies. As they each get a chance to experience a day in the other’s shoes, they come to learn how the other person lives. Remakes work best when reimagining the original in creative ways, and 2020’s Freaky put...
Director: Francis Lawrence
I Am Legend is based on the eponymous 1954 novel by Richard Matheson, which had received two other film adaptations before the more famous (and successful) 2007 version starring Will Smith. The two other films – The Last Man on Earth (1964) and The Omega Man(1971) – are nowhere near as popular nor as entertaining as the latest version. While the questionable CGI for the "Darkseekers" and the controversial ending in the 2007 movie definitely bring it down, it's still among the best remakes out...
Director: Stephen Sommers
Before Brendan Fraser's swashbuckling misadventures in 1999, the 1932 version of The Mummy gave audiences a supernatural horror take on the story. Directed by Karl Freund, the film became a Universal monster movie with Boris Karloffgiving a convincing performance as the eponymous villain. Viewers had much more fun with the remake, though, which mostly left horror behind in favor of the adventure genre and spawned a massively successful franchise (although the first film remains the best). It...
Director: Steven Spielberg
Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story originally began as a Broadway musical in 1957. Shortly after in 1961, the play’s original creator Jerome Robbins collaborated with director Robert Wiseto bring the award-winning stage play to the big screen. Its film adaptation was a success, winning several Academy Awards including Best Picture. However, Steven Spielberg’s 2021 adaptation updates the classic tragic love story to better reflect the culture of the characters. Un...
Director: Steven Spielberg
Based on H. G. Wells' 1898 novel, the first version of War of the Worldspremiered in 1953, but failed to live up to readers' expectations. It downgraded the iconic tripods to aliens on spaceships, which only made the film fade into the background of many influential sci-fi movies of the 1950s. Steven Spielberg's 2005 remake felt like a more accurate representation of the terrifying story, but that isn't to say it doesn't have flaws. Nonetheless, Tom Cruise's entertaining performance as an ave...
Director: Andrés Muschietti
Stephen King’s horror novel It was first adapted as a TV miniseries in 1990. Despite its 215-page screenplay, Tommy Lee Wallace’s adaptation still needed to omit key subplots from King’s novel to maintain its 3-hour runtime. To avoid condensing the 1,138-page novel into a single film, the 2017 horror movie remake made the smart decision to split the movie adaptation into two chapters to individually focus on the two time periods of the story. With the first film focusing on The Losers Club’s...
Director: Bradley Cooper
Heavily influenced by the 1932 film What Price Hollywood?, the tragic tale of the female lead reaching for stardom while the male lead faces a steady decline due to addiction found a home for itself in A Star is Born. Despite four films sharing the title, the 1937 and 1954 versions of A Star is Born starring Janet Gaynor and Judy Garland focused on an aspiring actor, whereas the 1976 film moved from Hollywood to the music scene. Unfortunately, Barbra Streisand’s character Esther overshadows h...
Director: Greta Gerwig
Louisa May Alcott’s classic American novel Little Women has seen many adaptations in cinema, TV, and even anime. Being the first version of the movie directed by a woman, Gillian Armstrong's 1994 adaptation starring Winona Ryderupdated the timeless story for a modern generation. 24 years after Armstrong’s adaptation, Little Women found another retelling in Greta Gerwig’s 2019 film. Taking creative liberties with the narrative, Gerwig’s Little Women makes great use of non-linear storytelling t...
Director: Howard Hawks
Adapted from the 1928 screenplay The Front Page, the 1931 film of the same name was faithful to the Broadway comedy. With Pat O’Brien as investigative reporter Hildy Johnson and Adolphe Menjou as his editor Walter Burns, the 1931 film is a classic buddy comedy. However, the 1940 remake, His Girl Friday did something interesting beyond being one of the first films with overlapping dialogue. Casting Rosalind Russell as Hildy alongside Cary Grant’s Walter Burns, this gender-swapped remake finds...
4 days ago · A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)86%. Critics Consensus: Restrained but disturbing, A Tale of Two Sisters is a creepily effective, if at times confusing, horror movie. Synopsis: After being institutionalized in a mental hospital, Korean teen Su-mi (Yum Jung-ah) reunites with her beloved sister, Su-yeon (Im Soo-jung),...
Feb 28, 2021 · Originally Korean: Oldboy. Oldboy is arguably one of the most famous American remakes of an original Korean movie. The Korean version became a cult classic thriller that premiered in 2003, and the movie received high praises from international audiences as well as Quentin Tarantino.
May 6, 2022 · Even after the Oldboy remake came out in 2013, 2003's Oldboy continues to inspire modern series and movies. In order to fully answer the question of what's different in the Oldboy remake, as well as to understand why Spike Lee remade Oldboy , viewers need to know the history behind the Korean thriller.
- Chris Sawin
Oct 7, 2021 · Debuting at the Cannes Film Festival and winning the esteemed Palme d’Or, waves of exceptional reactions and general hype turned skeptical eyes to the latest from the South Korean director of English-langauage hits like ‘ Snowpiercer ’ (2013) and Netflix’s ‘ Okja ’ (2017). The glowing reactions only continued to grow, eventually culminating in the winning of six Academy Awards ...
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Na Hong-jin lets the central plot grow organically with time while keeping its audiences busy setting the puzzling trap of horror, served with a dash of doleful humor. This horror gem is certainly one of the best Korean movies of the century. 3. Peppermint Candy | Lee Chang-dong | 2000.
