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Retro Active: A Boy and His Dog (1975)

23 December 2011 11:14 AM, PST | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »

by Nick Schager

What's new is always old, and in this recurring column, I'll be taking a look at the classic genre movies that have influenced today's new releases. In honor of Steven Spielberg's kid detective-and-dog sidekick saga The Adventures of Tintin, this week it's L.Q. Jones' 1975 sci-fi cult classic A Boy and His Dog.

The world has gone to hell and man and beast are now equals in A Boy and His Dog, L. Q. Jones' uniquely bizarre adaptation of Harlan Ellison's novella of the same name. A five-day World War IV has transformed 2024 America into a desert wasteland full of roaming bands of armed marauders dressed in tattered outfits that are part Road Warrior-chic, part Civil War-era antiquated. Traversing this desolate landscape is dimwitted 18-year-old Vic (Don Johnson) and his dog Blood (voiced by Tim McIntire), who can telepathically speak with Vic as well as »

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Cowboys & Aliens Movie Review

31 July 2011 8:36 PM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »

Pointing out that Cowboys & Aliens is not "really" a western may seem odd, and certainly unnecessary. It takes place in 1875, has people riding horses, and contains "Cowboys" in the title, but it also has spaceships, laser guns, and "Aliens" in the title. Thus, I'm not going to point it out, because it's painfully obvious to everyone, even those who have only heard the name, I'm just going to mention that it is untrue. In fact, it is almost too western to perfect its purpose, but it's close enough.

The film is built by splicing together characters, plot points, and action scenes from a variety of westerns, with all the key cliches and trappings, and heavy on things that involve Clint Eastwood and spurs. Largely, suck the rich rancher who thinks he owns the town from any number of films, and smash it together with High Plains Drifter, only switch it »

- Marc Eastman

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Warner Bros. May Remake ‘The Wild Bunch’ (Shoot Me) and ‘Westworld’ (Which is Ok)

20 January 2011 5:30 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

When talking about the screenwriter hire for Warner Bros.' proposed reboot [1] of Lethal Weapon, I mentioned that there was a lot of potential remake news coming out of the studio today. Well, here's the rest. [via THR [2]] What happened is that exec Jessica Goodman, a 13-year vet at the studio, has left, and projects that were on her desk, or hidden at the bottom of one of her 'to-do' piles, have been distributed among other execs. The result is a new lease on life for a handful of possible remakes that have been dormant for some time. They include Sam Peckinpah's seminal 'end of the West' film The Wild Bunch, the aforementioned Lethal Weapon reboot, and a new version of Westworld. First up, I really can't see any problem with remaking Westworld. Originally made by Michael Crichton in 1973, the original is practically begging for a remake. You can't quite replace Yul Brenner, »

- Russ Fischer

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