Over thirty years after the second version, which itself was over forty years after the first one, we get another remake. This one has the twist that the characters are Hispanic, and we explore how their cultural norms, especially if they are immigrants, come into...

My video speaks for itself: I’ll add, though, that the original ingeniously made a horror movie out of the branch of humanities known as folklore, while this one ingeniously made a horror movie out of the branch of social sciences known as sociology. Fantastic film...

As has been par for the course lately, I will mostly let my video do the talking:   I have some key thoughts to add though. Possible spoilers ahead: -The key questions I mentioned in the video are compelling on an existential level but take on a particular...

After a quarter-century I wasn’t holding my breath for another installment in the FotB series, especially given the second was much less successful than the first. However, something good that came out of the pandemic was that the actors got together for a short film...

Given how much I loved the previous film, I was disappointed by Part II. It was often pointed out at the time that it was both a remake of a sequel and a sequel of a remake, but the interesting bit of trivia was the best thing about this movie. It’s not even exactly...

Unless you happened to search for “old black and white movies” or “What’s Gloria Estefan up to” right beforehand, Googling “Father of the Bride” will probably get you the 1991 film instead of the movie it was remaking or the version from this very year. There’s good...

Father of the Bride. That’s a name that’s had pop culture significance for a long time. Some of you might hear it and think of the original, starring two of cinema’s greatest icons. Some of you might hear it and think of the first remake, starring one of the funniest...