Category Archives: Remakes

When Ebenezer Scrooge Met Frosty the Snowman

Posted on November 18, 2022 by stationmaster

Note: I’ve been having unexpected trouble with this blog lately. For some reason, half the images in this post and in some other posts aren’t showing up, at least not on Microsoft Edge. They do seem to be visible on … Continue reading →

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Cinderella (2015): My Favorite Disney Nostalgia Bait Movie

Posted on June 3, 2022 by stationmaster

This isn’t exactly the most controversial choice for the best of Disney’s recent (and seemingly unending) line of remakes and updates of old material. I believe it was one of the better received ones. But it’s not a totally safe … Continue reading →

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Aladdin (2019): My Second Favorite Disney Nostalgia Bait Movie

Posted on May 29, 2022 by stationmaster

OK, I’ll cut to the chase. I find Will Smith’s Genie funnier than Robin Williams’s Genie. Note I said funnier, not more fun if I can make that distinction. Robin Williams’s Genie is probably more fun, but the only funny … Continue reading →

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A Mild Defense of Disney’s Recent Line of Nostalgia Bait

Posted on May 6, 2022 by stationmaster

It’s no secret that the Walt Disney company has been relying on remakes of their more popular older movies a lot lately. 2019 saw not one, not two, but four of them! (Aladdin, The Lion King, Dumbo and Lady and … Continue reading →

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Remaking Christmas: It Happened One Christmas (1977)

Posted on December 18, 2021 by stationmaster

Did you know that in 1977 there was a made-for-TV gender flipped remake of It’s a Wonderful Life? And that they decided to give it the title of a different Frank Capra movie, replacing one of the words with Christmas? … Continue reading →

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Remaking Christmas: Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

Posted on December 11, 2021 by stationmaster

Of all the remakes of George Seaton’s 1947 movie, Miracle on 34th Street, only the 1994 one was released in cinemas. Fittingly, it’s the best of them or at least the most interesting. I don’t consider it anywhere near as … Continue reading →

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Little Women Smackdown Part 1

Posted on June 11, 2021 by stationmaster

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is a rare book in that it attracts ardent fans from both sides of modern American Culture Wars. On the one hand, it’s considered something of a pioneering feminist book for focusing largely on the … Continue reading →

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Which Friday Is the Freakiest? Candidates 3 and 4

Posted on April 30, 2021 by stationmaster

One Final Attempt to Understand What Goes On in Your Head: Freaky Friday (2003) Only eight years after the 1995 Freaky Friday, Disney released another remake, into cinemas this time, from director Mark Waters and screenwriters Leslie Dixon and Heather … Continue reading →

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Which Friday is the Freakiest? Candidates 1 and 2

Posted on April 27, 2021 by stationmaster

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it.” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Many more people know the premise of Freaky … Continue reading →

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