Recovered
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.
Recovered
Latest Episodes
Episode 120: Supergirls
Dan and Keith dive into the Girls of Steel with two takes on Supergirl! Way way back in the 1980s, low-rent producers the Salkinds took one last shot at cashing in on the Superman brand by introducing his cousin Kara, who must fight a brave bat...
Episode 119: Masters of Universes
Dan and Keith head to Eternia for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe! From its humble yet apparently iconic beginnings as an 80s cartoon, some of the characters hit the big screen in 1987 with Dolph Lundgren fighting through a language barr...
Episode 118: Fancy Murderers! (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)
Munsi Parker-Munroe rejoins Dan and Keith to delve into the cinematic universe of "What if multiple fancy murderers were all in a place where you wouldn't expect them to all be?" In the beginning comes Smokin' Aces, a full deck of current and f...
Episode 117: Bedazzleds
Dan and Keith dive into some theoretically romantic Faustian bargains with two takes on Bedazzled! Back in the 1960s, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore riffed some bits on a man meeting the Devil until they spun it into Bedazzled, in which a quiet co...
Episode 116: Jacobian Ladders
Dan and Keith head beyond the veil for some Jacob's Ladder scenarios! In 1990, a biblical term and also electric desk toy becomes a thriller starring Tim Robbins and a bunch of future stars, as a Vietnam vet named Jacob gradually learns maybe h...