Lights, Camera, Remake!

Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake, which is now basically a Godzilla stan account.  Bridget is joined by host of the Cineifier podcast Eric Vornoff.  Godzilla (1998) IMDB Description:  French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that heads off to New York City. The American military must chase the monster across the city to stop it before it reproduces.  *** On each episode we lo...

Normally when we go to watch a bad movie, we’re surprised how it’s not that bad and there was a lot of hype about nothing.  There’s a first time for everything. War of the Worlds (2025) IMDB Description:  A colossal invasion of Earth is coming in this off-kilter take on the legendary novel of the same name, filled with present-day themes of technology, government surveillance, and privacy. *** On...

A comeback tour for the ages. Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake, the podcast constantly on the search for originality, or at least a reason for all the remakes. It's also a podcast where a song about butts may have broken one of the podcasters and the other has strong feelings about brown M&Ms. We continue our look at the mockumentary/rockumentary about 80s rockers Spinal Tap. Almost 40 years...

In order to begin our newest season of the podcast, we gotta turn this thing up to 11. Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake, the podcast constantly on the search for originality, or at least a reason for all the remakes. It's also a podcast where a song about butts may have broken one of the podcasters and the other has strong feelings about brown M&Ms. This time, we look at the mockumentary/...

A listener suggestion! We take a look at movies whose soundtrack far surpassed their plot. These are bad movies with good soundtracks. This will surely be a divisive topic. Remember this is just opinion! And we appreciate all movies, big and small, indie and blockbuster, samurai and Stephen King adaptation. Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake, where we try to determine whether Hollywood has truly ru...

Wrapping up our Freaky Friday two-parter! We covered the original Freaky Friday on Episode 25. (There was a Christmas and a bonus episode that broke things up. Our bad.) Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake, where we try to determine whether Hollywood has truly run out of ideas. Sometimes that means doing body switch movies. Over. and over. And over again! IMDB Description: Dr. Tess Coleman and her d...

Here are some of the movies we really enjoyed watching in 2025. There's always something good out there to watch! Feel free to add your picks in the comment section. We'd love to hear what movies you enjoyed watching this year (and it didn't have to be released in 2025!) Sources: Companion trailer - Warner Bros https://youtu.be/Qr_kX0D3DNA?si=lieefD8n1RmRAByp Weapons trailer - Warner B...

Chug the egg nog and harass the homeowner’s association, it’s time to celebrate the holidays with a silly indie film that demands to speak to your manager. Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake, where we try to determine whether Hollywood has truly run out of ideas. Some of those ideas have been remade literally a hundred times.  About 35 and counting if we’re just talking cinematic adaptations.  That...

Let’s get freaky! In celebration of a sequel that has come 20 years later, we’re looking at the first two adaptations of Freaky Friday.  Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake, where we try to determine whether Hollywood has truly run out of ideas. Sometimes that means doing body switch movies. Over. and over. And over again! Another split episode because we talked too long. Freaky Friday (2003) is com...

Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake, where we ask the question “has Hollywood run out of ideas?” Our Mondo-sized Happy Gilmore 2-parter ends with the 2025 Netflix sequel.  Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) IMDB Description: Revisit Happy Gilmore's golf career after his win in the Tour Championship. Rotten Tomatoes: Happy Gilmore was at the top of his game — until a stroke of bad luck changed everything. Ca...

Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake, where we ask the question “has Hollywood run out of ideas?” The 90s called, they want their sequels back. It’s time to rehash some funny movies y’all! Happy Gilmore 2 came out on Netflix 29 movies after the original film, and its time to relive some golf comedy gold. We talked too long so now this golf-movie duo is going to be a two-parter. Happy Gilmore (1996):...

Take a magic carpet ride to Agrabah in this special video episode. This is another episode filmed at the Hairston Crossing Library, where we’re doing a live recording in front of the library’s Filmmaker’s Club to teach about podcasting. ****Couldn't upload the video to Spotify for unknown reasons, so it will be up on Youtube by tomorrow! I will update here with a link.**** Today's co-host...

Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake, where we try to answer the question “has Hollywood has truly run out of ideas?” Did the most reviled movie of 2025 deserve all of the hate? Or only some hate? We’re looking at the infamous 2025 rendition of Snow White.  Snow White (2025) A princess joins forces with seven dwarfs and a group of rebels to liberate her kingdom from her cruel stepmother the Evil Quee...

Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake, where we try to answer the question “ has Hollywood has truly run out of ideas?” How about those live action Disney remakes? Well before we get there, let’s start with the movie that started it all. Disney’s fame and box office domination included.  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)  Exiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is re...

Erica’s back, baby.  Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake, where we try to answer the question “ Has Hollywood truly run out of ideas?” We're looking at the coolest action flick to take over a storm drain. There. I said it. We’re looking at the movies that started a franchise that has claimed $2 billion in the worldwide box office. All from an independent film on a small budget. Well, small ish....

Erica’s back, baby.  Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake, where we try to answer the question “ has Hollywood has truly run out of ideas?” We’re looking at the movies that started a franchise that has claimed $2 billion in the worldwide box office. All from an independent film on a small budget. Well, small ish. And if Harlan Ellison had anything to say about it, there might not have been a ton of s...

"As if!" Today’s episode looks at two versions of a Jane Austen story. These are only 2 of the nearly 10 versions of the story that have appeared on the small screen, silver screen, and on stage in musicals. Emma is a story that survives the test of time, proving that being a busybody matchmaker is something that’s still relatable.  Today I have a special guest who is one of the worker b...

Talk about remakes! Superman is a character that has been portrayed by more than most. To date there have been 12 live action Supermen spanning from 1948 to 2025. Superman beats out Batman (11) and James Bond (7) for live action actors. In this bonus episode, Bridget tells Erica all about the history of Superman in live action films, from Kirk Alyn in the black and white serials of the 40s and 50s...

It’s time to talk to the animals…again. Rated a whopping 15% by critics on Rotten Tomatoes, Robert Downey Jr. gives his take on the famous doctor while also ending up in uncomfortable positions. Bridget is joined by Assistant Locations Manager Charles Judson, who is just as flabbergasted as Bridget at a certain scene involving a dragon and a leek. Charles is also one of the fine folks running Film...

It's time to talk to the animals in 1800s Puddleby-on-Marsh in England! Doctor Dolittle (1967):After the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientele, he and his friends escape their hometown to the sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. In this two-parter. Bridget is joined by Assistant Locations Manager Charles Judson, who gives great insight into the locations disast...

It’s time to take flight with a beloved animated film about friendship, looking past differences, and sheep abuse.  How to Train Your Dragon (2010): A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014): When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave...

Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake where we try to determine whether Hollywood has truly run out of ideas.  Sometimes even $12 million isn’t enough to star in the “biggest piece of crap ever made” according to Sandra Bullock.  It’s time to talk exploding buses, a flagrant disregard for physics, and why you need 14 buses to make this movie.  Speed (1994) A young Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)...

Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake where we try to determine whether Hollywood has truly run out of ideas.  Sometimes you need an Antarctic research station to run into a shape shifting alien more than once. Special guest host Tricia Buerke joins Bridget today to talk scifi horror and discuss her upcoming film Should I Claim I Still Have Mind Powers? The Thing From Another World (1951) Scientists a...

Erica and Bridget are seeing double as they present a special in-person episode at the local library! See how the same story is told with a modern (or late 90s anyway) perspective and new technology. The Parent Trap (1961): Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents. The Parent Trap (1998): Identical twins Annie and Hallie, separated at birth and each raised by o...

Welcome to Lights, Camera, Remake, where we had strong feelings about some giant lizard movies.  “If nuclear testing continues then someday, somewhere in the world another Godzilla may appear” - Prof. Tanabe, Godzilla . There are currently 38 Godzilla movies, with two more on the way. Godzilla (1954)After a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo...