"Three on a Match" Could Still Spark
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Drawing on my experience as a reader for Paramount, I examine films that almost worked: diagnosing what they were reaching for, where they fell short, and what might have saved them. Often I consider what a remake could do differently. All in one hundred words.
"Brewster's Millions": The Hard Cost of Easy Money
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What if the financial windfall wasn’t a blessing but a curse?
Read More"Another Woman" Missed a Chance to Make the Pregnancy Matter
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What if the voice she hears next door isn’t just overheard but authored?
Read More“Conversation Piece”: In Search of Lost Time
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Desire, class, and cultural change collide when an aging aesthete confronts a world he no longer understands.
Read More"A Slightly Pregnant Man": All Setup, No Delivery
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An outrageous premise turns timid by avoiding real stakes.
Read More"Young at Heart": Make Your Own Kind of Music
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A stiff family melodrama about a musical family finds new harmony when the three daughters work out their daddy issues through their relationships with men.
Read More"Hello Again": Back from the Dead
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A campy resurrection comedy gets a second life as a dark satire of suburban norms.
Read More"Golden Eighties": Remaking the Mall Musical
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A contemporary remake of this shopping mall love story musical could highlight modern tensions around consumerism, feminism, and nationalism.
Read More"King Kong": Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves
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A feminist reimagining sees the patriarchy as the real monster.
Read More"Who Killed Teddy Bear?": Incel Rage in Jockey Shorts
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A sweaty psychosexual thriller begging for a remake.
Read More"Winter Kept Us Warm": The Chill of Unspoken Desire
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Even the cast didn’t know they were making a gay film.
Read More"Phantom of the Paradise": Haunted by Its Source Material
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Campy, chaotic, and in need of one clear story to satire through song.
Read More"Indiscreet": Love Makes Fools of the Righteous
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Lying in love isn’t funny—unless it’s absurd.
Read More"The Leather Boys": A Gay Love Story Rides the Brakes
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