Welcome to Recovered, where Dan and Keith dig into all films remade, rebooted, and redone. They say there are no new stories under the sun, and Hollywood's been taking that as an excuse to tell the same stories over and over since the silent era, so we dig into which movies warranted a remake, which remakes improved on the original, and how very often neither of those things are true.
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Ever since 1928, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has handed out trophies to what it considered the best in film. Sometimes they were absolutely right, sometimes they were entirely wrong, sometimes they were so, so basic. But in all that time, audiences have had their own opinions, sometimes better, sometimes much worse. And sometimes, when the stars align or the fates allow, they even agree. Academy Vs Audience is a deep dive into Oscar history, revisiting film history from t ...
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Dan's Extra Credit Corner: The Missions Impossible
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29:49Before we reach the 2000s and spend half an episode breaking down Dan's least favourite entry of one of his favourite franchises, he's here to get the Mission: Impossible brainrot out of his system by breaking down the evolution of the franchise and which film did what the best. From it's lower-key suspense thriller origins to its recent final (unl…
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Dan and Keith head to ancient Greece and classic hero Perseus to weigh old-school stop motion against modern CG in the Clashes of the Titans! Back in 1981, legendary animator Ray Harryhausen wrapped a storied career with Clash of the Titans, in which Harry Hamlin's Perseus fights his way through stop-motion monsters to win the girl and claim a thro…
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1999: The Phantom Beauty (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)
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2:18:38The decade wraps up with one beautifully crafted but disturbingly hollow Best Picture, and one beloved franchise returning with a controversial entry. Recurring guest/victim of scheduling Munsi Parker-Munroe is back for the takes, joining Claire, Erin, and Dan in being mad at how well made American Beauty is in spite of the troubling central themes…
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Turns out Rollerball was not the first instance of a Norman Jewison classic being remade by John McTiernan, so Dan and Keith strap in for round two, the Affairs of the Thomases Crown. In 1968, last days of the Hays Code, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway squared off as bored millionaire turned bank robbery mastermind Thomas Crown and the insurance inv…
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1998: Love, War, and Asteroids (feat. Kevin Weir)
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2:12:15It's 1998, and was all fair in love and war? Some say no, as Harvey Weinstein launched an Oscar campaign of attrition to get himself an award for theatre kids' ideal romcom Shakespeare in Love, while also slandering rival Steven Spielberg's intense war movie Saving Private Ryan. Claire, Erin, Dan, and returning guest Kevin break down both, ask whet…
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Lllllllllet's get ready to ROLLERBALL! Dan and Keith dig into the 1975 cult classic dystopic sports flick Rollerball, in which James Caan must rise up against the world's corporate overlords by playing the best darn game of Rollerball he can, after about an hour of worldbuilding that only partially builds the world. In the early 2000s, legendary ac…
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Extra Credit: Titanic II (feat. Keith Kollee)
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26:30While Erin and Claire are busy on a stage, Dan succumbs to his ongoing Titanic brainrot, and drags his Recovered co-host Keith along for the ride by asking: did Titanic need or warrant a remake? Not the movie... the BOAT. Dan and Keith walk through how a replica Titanic is not equipped to compete in the modern cruise market, something it was never …
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Episode 84: Zontar Conquers the World (feat. John Tebbutt)
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1:36:32Beloved friend of the podcast and Video Vulture John Tebbutt is back, and he's got a doozy for Dan and Keith. Schlock king Roger Corman unites Mission: Impossible's Peter Graves, iconic western villain Lee Van Cleef, and B-movie queen Beverly Garland for the sci-fi thriller, question mark, It Conquered the World, in which a Venusian alien lures an …
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The day Erin's been waiting for arrives as she, Claire, and Dan dig into the third of three Joint Champion Juggernauts, James Cameron's Titanic. A star crossed romance between Jack and Rose is plagued by class differences, a cruel fiancé, and oh yes the boat they're on plowing into an iceberg. Records are smashed, feelings are felt, Dan's only a li…
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Episode 83: John Woo's The Killer(s)
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1:26:08John Woo's The Killer: one of the most iconic 80s Hong Kong action flicks, with Chow Yun-Fat leaping through dove-invested areas to fire two pistols in slow-motion. Who would dare to remake it? John Woo. Dan and Keith dig into the original (and how dubbed and subtitled versions differ), the choices excellent and confusing, then jump forward to 2024…
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Oscars in Review 2025 (feat. Olav Rokne)
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1:34:30Another year, another Oscars has come and gone, and returning guest Olav Rokne of the Hugo Book Club blog is back to help Erin, Claire, and Dan break down how each nominee did, and how they should have done. What does everything think should have won? What won too much? Can Claire, cursed by witches to watch no movies outside of this podcast, tell …
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Hit the big city streets and get ready to look for vengeance, kind of, as Dan and Keith take on the Death Wishes. Back in 1994, Charles Bronson found his most iconic role as an architect who lashes out at random street criminals in the wake of an attack on his family. Dan and Keith break it down, how much it differs from the sequels that followed, …
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It's 1996, and Dan is yelling "Elaine was right" as Claire, Erin, and he dissect Harvey Weinstein's first big Oscar win, The English Patient. Was this an early example of the current hip category fraud, where a co-lead ran as a supporting actress for an easier Oscar? Does cheating on young, hot Colin Firth make sense? Those questions answered, the …
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Dan and Keith head to Mega-City One to look into two Judges Dredd! First, back in the 90s, Sylvester Stallone brought Britain's favourite satirical comic Judge to Hollywood, but perhaps put a little too much of him on the screen. Dystopic future, overly aggressive protagonist, Rob Schneider is here for some reason, it's a blend of a Judge Dredd ada…
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1995 wasn't the best year for Hollywood. The Oscars (and only the Oscars) decided to go with Mel Gibson cosplaying a biopic in the epic of Braveheart, loved by dudes and hated by the Scottish ever since. At the box office, audiences were split, with the domestic crown going to rookie studio Pixar's story of toys come to life, while international au…
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As the MCU returns from hiatus, Dan and Keith look back at the film that set up Captain America: Brave New World... that being 2008's The Incredible Hulk. First, in 2003, Ang Lee and a young producer named Kevin Feige attempted a deep, psychological Hulk, with comic-book-style editing, examinations of trauma and repressed memories, and a bit of a w…
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One year after Schindler's List, the Academy chose to take it easy, and go with a heartwarming crowd-pleaser, in fact the biggest hit of the year, Forrest Gump. A film beloved by millions right until it beat Pulp Fiction at the Oscars. But while the USA enjoyed this streak of boomer nostalgia, international audiences were here for Peak Disney in th…
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Episode 79: Pet Ceme--Seme--Semataries
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1:05:17Grab your shovel and prepare to make bad choices as Dan and Keith unearth the Pet Semataries! Way way back in the 1980s, during the heyday of Stephen King adaptations, a former star of Star Trek: TNG and a future star of Time Trax took on an adaptation of Pet Sematary, the one Stephen King book that scared Stephen King. Three decades later, another…
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In 1993, everything was coming up Steven Spielberg! The king of blockbusters won his first Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture with his look at the Holocaust and those who survived because of two men's efforts to save who they could, teaching us that when times are dark, you do what you can and save who you can, even if it never feels like en…
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Episode 78: Getting The Crow Remake Over With
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1:21:48Dan and Keith take a deep sigh, say "This may as well happen," and get into two takes on The Crow. First, the extremely 90s original with Brandon Lee and a bunch of cool character actors. How does it hold up? How does the tragedy at the core of the movie affect the viewing? Breaking down the unsafe production that cost us a rising star in Brandon L…
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Erin, Claire, and Dan look back at the films they watched over 2024, both new releases, old classics first seen, or the stuff they watched for this, for you, the listeners. Claire visits classic horror, Dan breaks down some possible Best Picture nominees and what they have going for and against them, Erin reflects on franchises she's seen for the f…
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It's a new year, and Hollywood is still allergic to new ideas, so we have a new crop of remakes on the Horizon! Hooray, question mark? Dan and Keith dig into all the remakes and reboots on the horizon, from Fantastic Four: First Steps and Superman to new takes on Stephen King, Saturday morning cartoons, a weirdly unconnected trio of Universal Movie…
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Season's greetings from your Academy Vs Audience film historians! While turkey was eaten and presents unwrapped and schedules attempted to align, Erin went deep into Non-Christmas Christmas Movies, movies that might not seem to be about Christmas until you realize they (sometimes) are. Erin presents a tier ranking, and neither the top nor bottom ma…
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Episode 76: A Very Recovered Christmas
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1:04:09Ho ho holiday greetings, as Dan and Keith celebrate the season the Recovered way: unpacking movies with the same premise! First up, what else but the internet's favourite non-Muppet Christmas movie, Die Hard! John McClane is trying to save his marriage and Christmas, and we love him for it enough that it spawned a sub-genre. But of all the Die Hard…
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It's Clint Eastwood vs the Disney Renaissance as we reach 1992. Clint returns to the western genre in order to deconstruct its myths and tropes with a story of the west, violence, and how the stories we tell grow beyond the truth in Unforgiven, which Dan thinks would have fit right into the Legacy Sequel Era but it's probably for the best it isn't …
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Episode 75: The Things (feat. Emma Gallaher)
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1:51:03Grab your parka, light a flamethrower, and trust no one as we take on Things from Other Worlds! First, Dan, Keith, and special guest Emma head back to the 1950s for The Thing From Another World, based on the story Who Goes There, as an arctic base is beset by a plant-based invader out to steal their blood, and science and military find themselves a…
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1991: Silence of the Terminators (feat. Gina Stewart)
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1:42:25Two very different classics take the titles in 1991 as traditional Oscar bait has not fully developed. The Oscar goes to classic thriller Silence of the Lambs, thanks to riveting suspense, a stellar cast, and a performance from Anthony Hopkins so iconic you forget how little he's actually in the movie. Gina Stewart is back to explore changes from t…
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Dan and Keith go storm chasing with Twister and Twisters! Back in the 90s, Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt chased tornadoes for non-specific Science while staying ahead of their rival who was out for vague Profit in a simple storm flick that became one of the top hits of 1996. A whopping 28 years later, Hollywood took another crack at it with Twisters, …
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While the gang takes a minute to catch up and prepare to get further into the 90s, we present a special mini-episode of Dan's Extra Credit Corner. A quick and dirty ranking of the Predator franchise, a look into why no film since our next entry has managed to win the Big Five Oscars, and for the feature presentation, an excerpt from Dan's deep dice…
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Dan and Keith head back to the old west for two takes on the gritty western 3:10 to Yuma. Both versions see a desperate rancher agree to escort an outlaw bandit to the train to a prison in Yuma, something his gang is very willing to kill to prevent. In 1957, the conflict comes from the growing connection between Dan the rancher and Ben the bandit, …
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It's another triple-header, as the Oscars went for the first Extra Long Kevin Costner Western, while audiences were split between Christmas hijinks and the first big Sexy Halloween Monster. Dances With Wolves managed to be the second western to win Best Picture, while flipping the script on the genre's treatment of Native Americans, but could Costn…
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It's another 80s classic (question mark) with a largely overlooked remake as Dan and Keith take on the Red Dawns! Back in Reagan's America, Hollywood wove a tale of America being invaded by a Russian/Cuban alliance, which took a very elaborate amount of set-up to justify, held at bay by rising stars Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey, and…
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1989: Miss Daisy and the Last Bat-Crusade (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)
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2:06:40At the end of the 80s, the Oscars found themselves short on meaningful, artful, epics, tried to find some heartwarming story about ending racism, and settled for Driving Miss Daisy. Meanwhile, Hollywood began to pay attention to the worldwide box office instead of just the US, and we have our first split between domestic and international box offic…
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Jump back, listeners, as it's time for another 80s classic and its 2010s remake as Dan and Keith cut loose, Footloose. In 1984, Kevin Bacon comes to the town of Bomont to redeem it from frenzied Satanic Panic oppression through the power of dance, with excellent supporting performances from Chris Penn, John Lithgow, and the great Diane Wiest. Then …
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1988: It's Rain(ing) Man, Hallelujah (feat. Chris Gibbins)
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1:39:37It's the one Joint Champion of the 1980s, as neither Oscars nor audience can resist Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise teaming up for the road movie Rain Man, which also serves as perhaps the first major pop culture depiction of autism. Here to help Claire, Erin, and Dan break down the movie's efforts to examine neurodivergence is Dan's big brother Dr. …
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The Kaiju Saga reaches its conclusion in the cinematic smackdowns of Godzilla Vs. Kong, the Scaly Boi vs. the Big Monke. But it's not cinema made it to the Monsterverse before someone thought "Maybe these two could fight," so we start back in the Showa Era with King Kong Vs Godzilla from 1962 (or '63 depending on country), in which Big Pharma orche…
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1987: Three Men and a Little Emperor (feat. Kevin Weir)
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1:46:06In 1987, both Academy and Audience were making questionable choices in very different directions, so Kevin Weir's back to help Erin, Claire, and Dan get into it. The Oscar went to The Last Emperor, chronicling the uniquely tragic life of China's final emperor Puyi, and the gang accidentally watches the longest possible version. The audience goes fa…
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Dan and Keith are back into the Kings Kong, starting with Peter Jackson's 2005 remake. Fresh off Lord of the Rings, the future Sir Peter goes back to the 1930s in a lavish remake that references and homages the original while still adding a contemporary sensibility. Dan has some flowers for the filmmaking, while Keith thinks maybe Jackson put too m…
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In 1986, Hollywood was in two minds about the military. Oliver Stone won an Oscar for his ground-level examination of the destruction and darkness of the Vietnam War, via one idealistic recruit being ground down by perpetual horror and atrocity. Tony Scott went another way, with whizz-bang planes that go fast and hot shot fighter pilots flying and …
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We are back into the Kaiju Saga, trading Japan's scaly king for the USA's Big Monke! Dan and Keith cover two takes on King Kong: the original 1933 classic, and the 1976 remake that tries to be as different as it can while still being functionally identical. Two different Kongs of very different quality, but only one got a sequel: 1986's King Kong L…
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1985: Out of the Future (feat. Gina Stewart)
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1:55:48It's 1985 and the tonal gap between Academy winners and Audience favourite isn't getting smaller. The Oscar goes to Meryl Streep and Robert Redford's languidly paced, ill-fated romance in Out of Africa. Returning guest Gina Stewart joins Erin, Claire, and Dan to explain how the actual Karen Blixen's memoir of life in colonial Africa was mutated int…
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Episode 67: Mens in Black (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe
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1:31:47Throw on a suit, grab your neuralizer, and bounce with us, just bounce with us as we dig into the Men in Black! Back in 1997 an obscure comic became a classic sci-fi buddy-cop action-comedy teaming Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, then after two kinda samey sequels and a long gap an attempt was made to soft-reboot the franchise with Thor: Ragnarok's…
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It's buddy cops and classical music frenemies as Academy Vs Audience reaches 1984! First off, the Oscar goes to Amadeus, a film version of the what-if story proposing a deadly rivalry between composers Mozart and Salieri... a rivalry only one of them knows about. Erin, Claire, and Dan dig into it, the music, the wig-game, and if it's as gripping as…
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Episode 66: Godzilla Goes Hollywood
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1:53:11Our deep dive into giant monsters continues as Godzilla, formerly Gojira, makes the jump across the ocean to Hollywood! Eventually. Takes a couple of tries. In 1998, the director of Independence Day tries to adapt the big scaly boi for America, making big changes in design and backstory, with what could be called mixed results. Sixteen years later,…
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It's 1983, and the big movies are all about difficult parent/child relationships. The Oscars went to Terms of Endearment, a mother/daughter story conceived, written, and brought to the screen by men, and Erin, Claire, and Dan have a lot of questions and notes on its success. Audiences, however, needed to see how Han Solo got out of the carbonite, a…
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Episode 65: Godzillas Part One: The Eras Tour
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2:32:26The much referenced saga begins, as Dan and Keith dig into Gojira, Godzilla to his western friends, by visiting each of the five eras of Toho Studios' Godzilla franchise. From the original classic, through to his Avengers-style team-up flick Ghidora the Three Headed Monster, to the back-to-basics revivals of Godzilla 1985 and Godzilla 2000, to the …
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1944 Revisited: Going Back to Going My Way
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1:04:48While Erin and Claire are busy with the all-new theatrical experience of Riverona, travel back with us to 1944 and what Dan insists against all opposition is "one of the three most criminally underrated Best Pictures in history," the cask-stength comfort viewing of Going My Way. But first, for All 80s Summer, Erin has a speed-run review of George M…
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A day at the circus gets very noir as Dan and Keith walk down two different Nightmare Alleys. Carnie Stanton Carlisle has dreams of making the big time with a mentalist act, one he must purloin from his employers in the carnival, and that dream goes very well until it very doesn't. In 1946, swashbuckling actor Tyrone Power tried to break out of his…
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1931 Revisited: Yancey and the Tramp and Some 80s
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1:23:26While Erin and Claire are bringing a fresh new work to what lucky audiences are able to catch it, we turn back the clock to one of our earliest episodes, in which Dan invited Erin, Claire, and you, the listener, to join him in his Yancey Cravat Madness. Followed by some love for Charlie Chaplin! And since this is All 80s Summer, some quickie 80s mo…
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Episode 63: The Roads to Comedy, Question Mark
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1:31:15It's way back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the early days of Dreamworks animation, and Dan and Keith take on two movies about con artist pals and the woman they meet along the way getting into shenanigans in exotic locales. Back in the 1940s, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour kicked off a hugely popular seven film series of road movie…
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