remake – Page 2 – Stream On Demand

Last chance: Amanda Seyfried is ‘Chloe’ on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Netflix, remake, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 05/21/2022 Sean Axmaker

Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson costar in the erotic drama about a jealous wife who hires a young sex worker to test her husband’s fidelity.

Tim Burton visits the ‘Planet of the Apes’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, fantasy, remake, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

Mark Wahlberg stars as the American astronaut who lands on a planet where apes rule and humans drool and Helena Bonham Carter is the simian who supports human rights.

‘Young Frankenstein’ – Classic horror on laughing gas on Prime Video

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Mel Brooks’ lovingly hilarious spoof of the Universal Frankenstein films is both the funniest and the most loving tribute to classic movies ever made.

Christian Bale and Russell Crowe star in James Mangold's fine remake of the classic western

‘3:10 to Yuma’ – a superb western remake on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, remake, Streaming Movies, SVOD, western 02/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

Christian Bale and Russell Crowe star in James Mangold’s adult western, a brutal film about brutal people on the frontier.

Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson star in the 1954 melodrama classic by Douglas Sirk

‘Magnificent Obsession’ – grand melodrama on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, remake, Romance, SVOD 02/02/2022 Sean Axmaker

Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman star in the first great melodrama by director Douglas Sirk, an operatic tale of hubris and loss and sacrifice and rebirth in a Technicolor world.

Mowgli and friends in Disney's live-action 'The Jungle Book.'

‘The Jungle Book’ – 2016 remake on Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, Animation, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, remake, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/30/2022 Sean Axmaker

Jon Favreau’s CGI remake of the Disney animated classic has the scope of a myth and the playfulness of a folktale. Plus the voices of Ben Kingsley, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, and Idris Elba.

Tim Burton’s ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, childhood, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, HBO Max, Kid Stuff, Netflix, remake, SVOD 01/10/2022 Sean Axmaker

Johnny Depp plays Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore is Charlie in the second cinematic take on Roald Dahl’s offbeat fantasy

‘Breathless’ – American style with Richard Gere

!Featured, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, remake, SVOD 02/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

I’m still not sure if it was an inspired or a terribly misguided idea to remake Jean-Luc Godard’s debut feature, a French nouvelle vague classic of outlaw cinema in every sense of the word. Godard made his splash by defying conventions and announcing a fresh, energetic, new approach to telling stories on screen and a […]

‘The Curse of Frankenstein’ – Hammer horror on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a novel, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, HBO Max, horror, literary adaptation, remake, SVOD 10/06/2020 Sean Axmaker

Britain’s Hammer Studios had been making films for decades before they suddenly redefined themselves with this lurid remake of the Universal Studios horror classic. Prohibited by Universal from copying their blocky make-up (and their script for that matter), Hammer returned to Mary Shelley’s novel for inspiration for The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)… and then went […]

Evan Rachel Wood and Kate Winslet in the 2011 miniseries adaptation of the James M. Cain novel by Todd Haynes

‘Mildred Pierce’ – the miniseries on Amazon Prime and HBO Now

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Mildred Pierce (2011) is less a remake than a new run at adapting the James M. Cain novel. Previously made into a Hollywood classic (which earned Joan Crawford her only Oscar), it’s been transformed into a five-hour mini-series by director Todd Haynes, who cast Kate Winslet in the title role as the mother blindly devoted […]