It’s fitting that Len Wiseman’s “Total Recall” remake features a gigantic robot army, given that his films have always demonstrated the bare minimum level of interest in actual people. That’s why Wiseman was a particularly poor choice for adapting Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 masterpiece about a man who discovers that his memories are false and he’s […]
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Hello and welcome back to Box Office Beat, the column in which I hopelessly try to predict the upcoming weekend’s box office figures. After last weekend’s downright dismal showings of less than $13 million for each of the new openers, “The Watch” and “Step Up Revolution,” there’s no place to go but up. (That is,
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A new trailer for Len Wiseman’s remake of the 1990 sci-fi action classic “Total Recall” has hit the web. Colin Farrell takes over for Arnold Schwarzenegger (what a switch) as Douglas Quaid, a lowly construction worker in the future who discovers that he might actually be a spy whose memories were erased. The production values
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