Remakers Mark

The Cell was a film that divided the RM crew, sowing seeds of discontent and argument about the merits of its production design, writing, direction, and use of J-Lo. Some said the amount of J-Lo was too little. Some said too much. Do you think it was just right?

Amongst all of this confusion, some things are true: the sun rises in the east, Brussels sprouts taste better when roasted, and Vincent D’Onofrio is great at playing disturbing characters.

• The Cell
• J-Lo or Mariah Carey?
  • J-Lo
  • Mariah Carey
  • Pink
  • Cher
  • Celine Dion
  • Perfect Fifth
• Remaker’s Mark Recommends
  • TRY (Youtube Channel)
• Next Up
  • The Last Dragon
• Our Picks
  • Peter Novak
    • Michael Rooker
  • Carl Stargher
    • Chris Messina
  • Catherine Deane
    • Carrie Coon
  • Director
    • Guillermo Del Toro
• The Shining
• Law and Order
• Meat Muscle Suits
• The Exorcist
• The Matrix
• Star Wars: Original Trilogy, Prequel Trilogy
• The Fountain
• Stranger Things
• Hannibal
• Full Metal Jacket
• Men In Black
• Out of Sight
• Artworks Referenced in The Cell

Welcome to our nightmare dreamscape, the prison of our mind, our remake of 2000’s The Cell. We take many (well, five) different paths to recreating this film and its direction. See if we can be redeemed or if we’re too far gone.

• Thomas Kincaid
• Feel the Pain, by Dinosaur Jr.
• Are you making fun of my automobile?
• Remaker’s Mark Recommends
  • McMillions
• Tarsem Singh
• Jennifer Lopez
• Vince Vaughn
• Vincent D’Onofrio
• Inception
• Ain’t It Cool News
• Cannibal Holocaust
• Patton Oswalt
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Peter Novak
  • Vince Vaughn
  • Diego Luna
    • Rogue One
  • Daniel Kaluuya
    • Judas and the Black Messiah
    • Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Merits
  • Michael Rooker
    • Yondu
  • Sebastian Stan
    • Once Upon a Time
    • Jeff Gillooly
  • Joaquin Phoenix
• Carl Stargher
  • Vincent D’Onofrio
  • Lee Pace
    • Halt and Catch Fire
  • James McAvoy
    • Split
    • Glass
  • Chris Messina
    • Jessica Biel
    • Sharp Objects
    • The Mindy Project
    • Birds of Prey
  • Adam Driver
    • Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
  • John Krasinski
    • Diet coke
    • Jack Daniels
• Catherine Deane
  • Jennifer Lopez
  • Octavia Spencer
  • Jurnee Smollett
    • Friday Night Lights
    • The Great Debaters
  • Emmy Raver-Lampman
    • The Umbrella Academy
  • Elizabeth Olsen
    • WandaVision
  • Carrie Coon
    • Avengers: Endgame
    • Proxima Midnight
• Director
  • Tarsem Singh
  • Jordan Peele
  • Kathryn Bigelow
  • Christopher Nolan
  • Lars von Trier
  • Guillermo del Toro

This is like Great British Baking Show…if the stakes were death…

We conclude our What’s Up Docs? series with a light-hearted romp through the world’s most stressful and high-stakes pastry contest. If you enjoy The Great British Baking Show, Iron Chef, or any other culinary contest, may we recommend Kings of Pastry, a documentary about the quadrennial contest to achieve France’s highest honor in the field of pastry chef-dom. Ne’er e’er has there been such drama around abstract sugar sculptures and such scrutiny over the flavor of a beautiful wedding cake. Bon appetit.

• About the chefs
  • Jacquy Pfeiffer
    • The French Pastry School
  • Philippe Rigollot
• The Meilleur Ouvrier de France

You take the good (Pryor, Wilder, Poitier), you take the bad (the plot, the writing, the directing), you take ’em both and there you have…Stir Crazy. This movie underwhelmed us. And not in the Supergirl or KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park sort of way, but in an “I’m so disappointed in you” sort of way that your parents used on you when you did something unworthy of their years of tireless devotion to your well-being, you ungrateful child. Wait, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, this movie sets the record for lowest average rating in Remakers Mark history.

• Sidney Poitier
• Stir Crazy
• Star Wars
• Z
• Remakers Mark ‘Z’ Episodes
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Chicken Run
• The Great Escape
• Alex Trebek
• You Need A Budget
• Tarsem Singh
• The Cell
• The Fifth Element
• The Silence of the Lambs
• The Lawnmower Man
• Gene Wilder
• Jason Mantzoukas
• Richard Pryor
• Donald Faison
• Scrubs
• Zach Braff
• Erland Van Lidth
• Terry Crews
• Fred Willard
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil
• Snowpiercer
• Dumb and Dumber
• Blazing Saddles
• Young Frankenstein
• Homophobia
• Roger Ebert
• Vincent Canby

Another year, another legion of talented performers and creators that have shrugged off this mortal coil and moved into the Great Beyond, and another chance for Andy to have his Grim Reaper robe dry-cleaned. We spend some time eulogizing just a few of the many wonderful talents that passed away in 2020.

• Apple Fitness+
• Peloton
• Carl Reiner
• 2000 Year Old Man
• Mel Brooks
• Dick Van Dyke
• Mary Tyler Moore
• Steve Martin
• Jerry Seinfeld
• Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
• Ivan Reitman
• Jason Reitman
• The Princess Bride (Home Movie edition)
• Fred Savage
• Peter Falk
• Rob Reiner
• The Jerk
• All of Me
• Eddie Van Halen
• Alex Van Halen
• ‘1984’ album
• Wolfgang Van Halen
• David Lee Roth
• Sammy Hagar
• ‘5150’ album
• ‘Van Halen’ album
• Nuno Bettencourt
• Alex Trebek
• Jeopardy!
• ‘Jose Chung’s From Outer Space’ X-Files episode
• Alex appears on Saturday Night Live
• Saturday Night Live
• Fred Willard
• Christopher Guest
• Waiting for Guffman
• Catherine O’Hara
• Jonathan Winters
• Robin Williams
• A Mighty Wind
• Parks and Rec
• Patton Oswalt
• Chadwick Boseman
• Black Panther
• Denzel Washington
• Anthony Bourdain
• Diana Rigg
• Great Muppet Caper
• On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
• The Avengers
• Game of Thrones
• George Lazenby
• Ian Holm
• Henry V
• Alien
• The Fifth Element
• Terry Gilliam
• Time Bandits
• Brazil
• Luis Troyano
• Alan Parker
• The Wall
• Mississippi Burning
• Evita
• Jerry Stiller
• Stiller and Meara
• Seinfeld ‘Del Boca Vista’ outtakes
• Seinfeld ‘Police Station’ outtakes

Sometimes a recipe looks better on paper than in practice. We take on 1980’s Stir Crazy, starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, and directed by Sidney Poitier, and see how we can make this tale about mistaken identity, prison rodeos, song-and-dance clown mascots, and using pliers as a negotiating tool while talking about your feelings, just a little bit better.

• Sidney Poitier
• Strong Songs Podcast
• Switched on Pop Podcast
• Gene Wilder
• Richard Pryor
• Stir Crazy VHS box cover
• Jon Favreau
• Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau meme
• Maya Rudolph
• Zach Braff
• Scrubs
• Paul Rudd
• Paul Rudd dancing to ‘September’
• Captain America meets Ant Man
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil
• Young Frankenstein
• Jason Mantzoukas
• The Long Dumb Road
• Grand Budapest Hotel
• Lady Dynamite
• Bojack Horseman
• Manhunt
• Leslie Jones
• Eddie Griffin
• Undercover Brother IMDB
• Deuce Bigalow
• Jim Rash
• Community
• The Descendants
• Donald Faison
• George Stanford Brown
• Sasha Baron Cohen
• Talladega Nights
• Trial of the Chicago 7
• JoBeth Williams
• Ana De Armas
• Erland Van Lidth
• Terry Crews
• Miguel Ángel Suárez
• Michael Peña
• Luis in Ant Man movies
• Craig T. Nelson
• Chris Evans
• Chris Evans’ Comic Book characters
• Knives Out
• Cable Knitting

In a classic tale of good versus evil, light versus dark, David versus Goliath, the Rebel Alliance versus the Galactic Empire, we hear the epic saga of Steve versus Billy. Get ready for King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a documentary that tells the surprisingly sordid tale of the fight to claim the world record in…Donkey Kong. You mess with the alpha nerd? You get the alpha nerd horns.

• King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
• Donkey Kong
• Billy Mitchell
• Steve Wiebe
• Joseph Campbell
• Roy Awesome AKA Mr. Awesome

How do you solve a problem like a pretty decent movie that came out at a time of some really great movies and got overshadowed? How do you keep a wave upon the sand? Sorry, I digress.

We conclude our discussion of The Book of Eli and talk about how this film got the short straw in some ways, shot itself in the foot in other ways, and could have been different/better in other other ways.

And how we all decided that Eli definitely wasn’t blind. We all agreed 100% on that. [Narrator: They didn’t.]

• Popeyes
• Lunds and Byerlys
• World Street Kitchen
• Revival
• Sidney Poitier
• Stir Crazy
• Gene Wilder
• Richard Pryor
• Gary Oldman
• Ewan McGregor
• Mila Kunis
• Millie Bobby Brown
• Denzel Washington
• Idris Elba
• John Boyega
• Michael Gambon
• Frances de la Tour
• Kurt Russell
• Goldie Hawn
• Jennifer Beals
• Will Ferrell
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Continuing our series on films by directors who are minorities, we take on 2010’s Book of Eli, a post-apocalyptic neo-Western film where literacy is king and cat oil is a form of sun protection. Join us as we fill the monstrous shoes of Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman, and hear how Andy totally nails his minor character picks. Like, out of the park nailed it. So good.

• Kirk Cameron

• The Dismemberment Plan
• Adagio for Strings
• Samuel Barber
• Platoon

• Love-Cars
• It Could Happen Here podcast
• The Book of Eli
• Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes
• Denzel Washington
• Gary Oldman
• William Zabka
• Claes Bang
• Dracula
• Vinnie Jones
• Überleben an der Scheidungsfront
• Meryl Streep
• Doubt
• Mads Mikkelsen
• Casino Royale
• Hannibal
• Ewan MacGregor
• Birds of Prey
• Mila Kunis
• Anya Taylor Joy
• Hannah John-Kamen
• AntMan and the Wasp
• Zendaya
• The Greatest Showman
• Euphoria
• Peyton List
• Cobra Kai
• Millie Bobby Brown
• Stranger Things
• Enola Holmes
• Charlize Theron
• The Old Guard
• Donnie Yen
• Rogue One
• Idris Elba
• Gina Carano
• The Mandalorian
• Werner Herzog
• Pedro Pascal
• Ray Stevenson
• Laz Alonso
• The Boys
• Jennifer Beals
• Cate Blanchett
• Malcolm McDowell
• Colm Feore
• The Umbrella Academy
• Aiden Gallagher
• Tom Waits
• Peter Stormare
• Minority Report
• Armageddon
• American Gods
• Michael Gambon
• Frances De la Tour
• Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease
• Blaze of Glory
• Kurt Russell
• Goldie Hawn

Is your child in pre-school? Is your child an abstract expressionist prodigy? Do you have a knack for exploitation? Then perhaps you shouldn’t watch ​My Kid Could Paint That.​ If you answered “no” to any of those questions, however, may we recommend you watch that documentary and then take a listen to our discussion of what could be a 1) tragic tale of a girl’s childhood stolen, 2) the eerie parallels between modern art and ​The Emperor’s New Clothes​, or 3) how the value of a piece of art is so much more (or less) than the paint on the canvas.

• Walker Art Center
• Hot Coffee
• Berenstain Bears
• Mary Frances Judge