If one were to ask me what film I’d want to see a remake of, I wouldn’t have ever picked Death Wish. The original Charles Bronson film was fun enough, but in a world where we have characters like The Punisher and movies like Taken and John Wick, it really doesn’t do much to stand out in any meaningful way. Add to that the relatively low name recognition of Death Wish outside of film fans, and there really didn’t seem to be much reason to go back to the well on this one.However, I became a bit more interested when Eli Roth got involved.

Viewers of Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven remake (or reimagining) will no doubt find action, suspense and a whole lot of bullets flying across dirt-covered paths, but what they may also be surprised to find is just how much humor is packed into the film, too. Many of the laughs come from the ensemble's most charismatic addition, Chris Pratt, playing a wisecracking gambler named Josh Faraday who joins Denzel Washington's Chisolm early in the film -- the duo on a quest to...Read MoreRead Comments

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Based on the original film from 1960 directed by John Sturges and starring the likes of Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, and Yul Brynner, the 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven is directed by Antoine Fuqua (Southpaw) with starring turns from Denzel Washington (The Equalizer), Chris Pratt (Jurassic World), and Ethan Hawke (Boyhood).

Filmmakers will look almost anywhere for inspiration, but for Magnificent Seven director Antoine Fuqua, inspiration came from a place very close to home--grandma's home.  For Fuqua, his love of Westerns and his desire to make one is very much tied to the relationship he had with his grandmother, who used classics like Shane and Duel in the Sun to keep her grandson from becoming the kind of villain she despised.  "She was just one of those little ladies from the South,...Read MoreRead Comments