‘MacGyver’ (2016) Pilot Recap: “If This Guy Is
The new 2016 ‘MacGyver’ attempts something I don’t recall seeing before. It tries to consolidate and reboot two shows in one. It really ought to be called ‘MacGyver: Impossible’.
The new 2016 ‘MacGyver’ attempts something I don’t recall seeing before. It tries to consolidate and reboot two shows in one. It really ought to be called ‘MacGyver: Impossible’.
These days, it seems that no movie, no matter how beloved or esteemed or sacrosanct, is safe from being run through the Hollywood remake factory. What movies do you consider so sacred that you’d be appalled to see them remad...
Honestly, how did we get to the point where a remake of ‘Ghostbusters’ is the most politicized movie of 2016? The female-led reboot is the most downvoted YouTube trailer of all time with a parade of fanboys wailing abo...
Ever since the project was first announced, the all-female reboot of ‘Ghostbusters’ was met with great skepticism from fans of the original movie. When the first trailer was revealed earlier this year, it quickly becam...
Before anyone starts angrily typing on their keyboards about the lack of originality in Hollywood or how studios no longer take risks, here are some examples where reboots and remakes might prove entertaining.
Of all the old TV shows that might get the “dark and gritty” reboot treatment, I have to say that I’m very surprised by what Netflix has done to ‘Full House’, that defining example of shitty 1990s fam...
How desperate must NBC be to bring back ‘Heroes’ this season? Did anyone miss the show in the five years it’s been off the air? The network describes ‘Heroes Reborn’ as a “retooling” rathe...
With a new ‘Transporter’ reboot in theaters and the ‘Mad Max’ reboot hitting Blu-ray this week, now seems like a good time to evaluate some other famous movie franchise reboots. Which ones worked out for th...
Given that so much of the success of ‘The Transporter’ series lived and died on Jason Statham’s unmistakably Stathamesque performance, you’d think that it would be impossible for the franchise to continue w...
Plenty of bad movies have gotten released this summer, but none quite as irritating and thuddingly dull as ‘Hitman: Agent 47’. This is the second attempt to launch a moderately popular videogame series into a film fran...
As of this weekend, we’re already on our second movie iteration of the ‘Fantastic Four’ (third if you count the unreleased Roger Corman cheapie), and it seems like the popular comic book team still hasn’t b...
If there’s one thing that can be said about the new ‘Fantastic Four’ reboot, ‘Chronicle’ director Josh Trank certainly had a unique take on the material. This isn’t the dysfunctional family supe...