“Mean Girls” is the latest movie to be based on a Broadway musical, based on a movie. It’s actually a burgeoning subgenre with December’s “The…
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Remakes are tricky business. When a remake adds something new or improves upon aspects of the previous incarnation, the new version justifies …
“Mulan,” Disney’s latest live-action remake of one of its animated features, is being released exclusively to Disney+ for $29.99 Friday.
With the recent release of the jukebox musical remake of the 1983 teen film “Valley Girl” arriving for home viewing, I did a double feature of…
With “The Lion King,” Disney has unleashed its third “live-action” remake in less than six months, following “Dumbo” and “Aladdin.” I put live…
“Aladdin,” Disney’s latest live-action remake of one of its animation classics is good, if completely unnecessary. It does very little to dist…
“Dumbo,” the first of three live-action remakes of classic Disney animated films coming this year (“Aladdin” arrives May 24 and “The Lion King…
This week, I reviewed Advice To The Players’ production of “Taming of the Shrew.” In my research, I was surprised to discover that there was a…
The new nine-episode TV update of “Heathers,” the 1988 Winona Ryder and Christian Slater-led black comedy about high school cliques with a mur…
It would be easy to by cynical about “A Star is Born,” actor Bradley Cooper’s debut as a director, as it is the third remake of a film dating …