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Celebrate Black History Month with Black Buck
It’s Black History Month which means you should make the extra effort to shop at Black owned stores and restaurants, embrace Black culture, read books by Black authors, and in general support Black creators (in case you were wondering, this isn’t an arbitrary rule made up, it’s a rule the system we’re operating in established). […]
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A Definitive Ranking of the Best Guests on Murderville
Murderville, starring Will Arnett, follows Senior Police Decective Terry Seattle as he attempts to put his life together after a divorce and loss of his partner while simultaneously solving murders with the help of celebrity “detective trainees.” Each episode brings a new murder to be solved and a new celebrity (playing themselves) to help him… […]
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Remake or Revere: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Twenty years ago Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Philosopher’s Stone if you’re feeling really British) and was number one at the box office for weeks. It came out November 14 and raked in $1.007 billion at the box office, with an opening weekend of $90,294,621. The production budget was $125,000,00 and worldwide. To say […]
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Remake or Revere: Monsters Inc.
Here on Remake or Revere, we are tasked with watching the movie that was number one on the box office 20 years ago this week. Well, the first week in November 2001 a little movie called “Monsters Inc.” came out and had an opening weekend of $62,577,067, which to no surprise won that week. It […]
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What’s the Deal With Dune?
The second attempt at a Dune film has been, by pretty much all metrics, a resounding success. While the original 1984 version has something of a cult following (doesn’t everything Kyle MacLachlan makes?), this year’s is a bona fide hit. A cast full of trendy but accurate actor choices, a director used to tackling high […]
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Remake or Revere: K-PAX
With an estimated budget of $68 million K-PAX managed to sit atop the box office this week 20 years ago while only earning back $65 million in total. While I had never seen this movie I can see how it ended up with an audience score of 75% despite only earning a 42% on the […]
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Remake or Revere: From Hell
In this latest edition of Remake or Revere, we will be looking at the #1 movie from October 21, 2001 weekend. This cinematic thriller, starring Johnny Depp, as Detective Fredrick Abberline, and Heather Graham, as sex worker Mary Kelly. The movie is based on the graphic novel of the same name about the Jack the […]
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Recast Rewind: Training Day
A classic hit, Training Day, was top of the box office during this week twenty years ago. I cover my thoughts and what it would look like if it was recast and released today! My Thoughts Training Day is one of the most popular and quoted Denzel Washington movies. Which is saying a lot. It […]
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I Refuse to Budget My Childhood Video Games!
ESPN put out a tweet this week that’s a version of the $15 budget meme, featuring tiers from $1-5, featuring sports video games mostly from the early 2000’s. Usually I’ll play along and at least offer up an answer or attempt to make the $15 budget, but this time I simply refuse. The list of […]
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Dinner and a Movie with The Moons
We are back from our family leave hiatus after welcoming Holden Moon into our lives. We hope you will continue to follow our dinner and movie recommendations as we adjust to feeding one more in the Moon household. This week a conversation in the TGS chat pop culture channel prompted us to watch one of […]
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