The POP-EXPOSE 

Hollywood’s Creative Graveyard: Now Featuring – a Sequel!

Hollywood’s Creative Graveyard: Now Featuring – a Sequel! Dead ideas, corporate cowardice, and the terrifying reality that someone in Hollywood just might have an original thought.   There was once a time when Hollywood produced films that made us question reality, contemplate existence, and occasionally sleep with the lights on. Now? We get Fast & Furious 47: The Nursing Home Drift. Hollywood has developed a peculiar addiction. Not cocaine. That was the ’80s. No, something far more sinister. Nostalgia. Specifically, digging up beloved franchises, electrocuting their corpses, and parading them…

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Just Because We Can, Should We Be Remaking Pop Culture and Pulp Classic Movies?

By: R.A. Rayne In a summer of reboots, remakes, and sequels, nostalgia is a trend for the first time, not just a midlife crisis. While we haven’t quite yet reached the levels of embracing the 1980s like Ernest Cline portrayed in his Ready Player One and Two books, we are tiptoeing into his world. (In more ways than one.) While every generation seems to have a nostalgic callback to their parents’ youth, this time things are different. We now live in an age when, in a digital minute, parachute pants,…

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