Blade Runner – New York Film Critics Circle

Hollywood and the death of originality

Marshall Fine June 17, 2013 June 17, 2013 Members / Recent News

HollywoodandFine.com This was originally going to be a piece about how wrong it was for Will Smith to remake “The Wild Bunch.” But that metastasized into an idea about remakes and reboots in general. So I wound up simply writing an open letter to Smith about “The Wild Bunch” – …

‘Total Recall,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

Marshall Fine August 3, 2012 August 3, 2012 Members / Recent News

HollywoodandFine.com At about the halfway point in the new remake of “Total Recall,” I thought, “Wow, this is pretty good.” But pretty good is all it managed. Though Len Wiseman’s reworking of Philip K. Dick’s story (and the 1990 Paul Verhoeven/Arnold Schwarzenegger film that was extrapolated from it) comes up …