The Good, The Bad and The Remake: Movie Podcast

An unplanned tribute to the recent passing of director Joel Schumacher this week as Neal, Catherine and Ben revisit his 1990 'brat pack' thriller Flatliners - featuring Julia Roberts, Keifer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt - from a time when he was a respected Hollywood heavy-hitter, prior to ruining the Batfranchise with Batnipples...

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We've gone slightly more obscure this week, as Neal, Catherine and Ben take a look at the cult 1986 slasher-thriller The Hitcher - starring Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell and a very young Jennifer Jason Leigh - as three people caught in a vicious, cruel game of death and torture on a Texas Highway, climaxing with one of the great twists in 80s horror.

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The GBR team tackle the most controversial pick yet, with a bona fide 80s classic in Ivan Reitman's original, not to mention an amazing cast - Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis and more - followed up by the 2016 all-female remake from Paul 'Bridesmaids' Feig.

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A double bill of acclaimed, high-brow thrillers this week, as Neal, Catherine and Ben sit down with the late-90s Scandi-noir Insomnia, starring Stellan Skarsgard in a very dark role - prior to finding international fame in Good Will Hunting and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Then they mull over the slightly expanded remake from Christopher Nolan - his next film after Memento brought him to worldwide attention - starring Al Pacino, Hillary Swank and Robin Williams.

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It's little surprise to most people that three people that grew up in the 1980s would have strong feelings about Paul Verhoeven's seminal sci-fi actioner - and Neal, Catherine and Ben are predictably gushing when it comes to rewatching it.  

But 2/3rds of the GBR team have yet to see the 2014 remake starring Joel Kinnaman, Michael Keaton, Gary Oldman and Samuel Jackson. With a lineup like that and a massive budget, can it really be as bad as some critics say?  

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So far on The Good, The Bad and The Remake, we've had one terrible remake and one brilliant remake. Now, as Neal, Catherine and Ben sit down to watch the 2006 remake of the seminal 1970's classic - this time starring Nicolas Cage - it could well be equal amounts of both.

For our second foray into the mixed bag of remakes, Neal, Catherine and Ben are weighing up the relative virtues of the two film versions of Little Shop of Horrors - the first a micro-budget Roger Corman b-movie from 1960; the second a big budget musical from Yoda himself, Frank Oz, from 1986.

The first episode proper has landed and Neal, Catherine and Ben are sinking their brain teeth into Keanu's first action film and it's 25-years-later remake, the Point Breaks. It's pretty much accepted that the original film is a minor classic of 90s action, but given that none of the team have seen its reincarnation, does it have any surprises or originality in store, or will it just be another lifeless retread with nothing to say? The Keanu-Swayze version certainly isn't flawless, so there is plenty of room for growth, in the hands of the right filmmakers.

In the introductory episode, Neal, Catherine and Ben explain the idea behind The Good, The Bad and The Remake, the films that are going to makeup the first list of ten films and their respective remakes and all three share their personal histories with the films. Got a suggestion for a film to add to the list or a 3-word review of any of the upcoming films?