Episode 11 Gone In 60 Seconds (1974 vs 2000)
Jason, Jeff, and Trish go car shopping with H.B. Halicki and Nicolas Cage in the battle of the Gone in 60 Seconds films from 1974 & 2000. Can an all star cast of Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Delroy Lindo, Timothy Olyphant, Vinnie Jones, Christopher Eccleston, and Robert Duvall beat out the gonzo film making and epic car chase of H.B. Halicki's B-movie classic?
Episode 12 Remaking Used Cars (1980)
On this episode we travel back to the lot of Used Cars (1980). The Robert Zemeckis directed and Bob Gale written film starring Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham, Frank McRae, Joe Flaherty, David L. Lander, Michael McKean, and Deborah Harmon comedy about competing used car lots posed a bit of a conundrum for the Invasion team who may have bit off more than they can chew with this one. Is it still road worthy or destined for the scrap heap? Find out on the best best deal on the internet, the Invasion of the Remake Podcast!
Episode 13 Bedtime Story (1964) Vs. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
In 1964 David Niven played a high class confidence man along side Marlon Brando's more gruff, low class con man. In 1988 Bedtime Story was remade into the hit film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Michael Caine and Steve Martin took up the rolls. In 2015 Jason, Jeff, and Trish take these two comedy classics about competing con men to task and see which is best at the gift of the grift.
Episode 14 Conditions of Your Surrender featuring Lee Arenberg & Jason Mewes
Snootchy boochies from the Lethbridge Entertainment Expo. Jeff chats with Lee Arenberg, Grumpy from Once Upon a Time and Pintel from Pirates of the Caribbean, and Jason Mewes, one half of Jay & Silent Bob of the View Askew universe and Jimmy from Todd & the Book of Pure Evil. Also Jason & Jeff talk about their experiences at conventions. This episode is not to be missed because they are Conditions of Your Surrender.
Episode 15 Invasion of the Holiday Special
Welcome to the very first Christmas/Holiday special. Yup, we said Christmas out loud and nothing happened. The world didn't end. Crazy huh? This week your Invasion leaders discuss their favorite Christmas films and television specials that helped ring in the holiday season for them. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Peanuts, Christmas Vacation, Scrooged, and even Black Christmas, Jack Frost, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Die Hard & Lethal Weapon are discussed in this holiday round table
Episode 16 How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Visha Loo!
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) with Boris Karloff is a fundamental part of the Holiday season. A must watch by kids and adults alike. At the dawn of the new millennium Ron Howard took the Chuck Jones classic cartoon and brought it to life on the big screen with Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, and Molly Shannon. We take the Dr. Suess book which takes approximately 12 minutes to read, an animated television special that is 24 minutes long, and a 144 minute live action film and cover it all 101 minutes. That's a savings of 79 minutes. You're welcome. Join Jason, Jeff, Trish and special guest, contortionist, fetish model, fashion designer, and actress Visha Loo for a swinging trip to Whoville
Ugly Christmas Song 2015
In the fond tradition of ugly Christmas sweaters, fruit cake you could use as a brick, and the Star Wars Christmas Special comes Invasion of the Remake's first ever Ugly Christmas Song by the Commanders of the Mother Ship, Trish, Jeff & Jason. Please don't hold this parody against us.
Episode 17 Remaking Santa Claus (1959) aka Santa Vs The Devil
Santa Claus is a bad ass! In 1959 a Mexican Holiday film by Rene Cardona brought Santa Claus to the big screen in a crazy battle between him and the Devil Pitch to save Christmas. Is Santa secretly running a child labor camp? Is interpretive dance a symbol of pure evil? Are Santa's reindeer really robots? Does Santa create a potion that can melt you from the inside? All these crazy questions will be answered in this episode of Invasion of the Remake!
Episode 18 Invasion of the Retrospective: Movies of 2015
A New Years tradition is to look back in memory at the year that came before so the Invasion crew are not one to break tradition, but rather than look back at what we've done on the show we look back on the films we saw in 2015. The good ones, the not so good ones, and even a few we never actually saw...cause that's how we roll.
Listen to us chat about Trainwreck, Furious 7, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Pitch Perfect 2, Mad Max: Fury Road, Tomorrowland, Spy, Inside Out, Poltergeist, San Andreas, Jurassic World, Minions, Terminator: Genisys, Ted 2, Ant-Man, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Pixels, The Martian, Crimson Peak, Spectre, The Peanuts Movie, The Hunger Games, Creed, Krampus, The Hateful Eight, The Revenant, and of course the little film that could...Star Wars: The Force Awakens (spoiler free) and so much more!
Episode 19 The Blob (1958) Vs. The Blob (1988)
Presenting the first ever Invasion of the Remake...remake. Our original Blobcast got swallowed by a gelatinous Christmas Song & in a grand sense of irony we have remade our original episode because The Blob is to good not to get an episode. Steve McQueen starred in the 1958 sci-fi classic, but the Chuck Russell remake goes full horror with Shawnee (Saw) Smith and Kevin Dillon. Which Blob will come out on top? Find out in this weeks special Blobcast. There's always room for The Blob!
Episode 20 Remaking Cyborg (1989)
In the near future walking flash drives hold the cure to a plague that is wiping out humanity...unless you are named after a guitar. The final nail in the coffin for the bankrupt Canon films was the Albert Pyun film Cyborg (1989) starring a then brand new superstar in the making Jean Claude Van Damme. Originally planned as a sequel to Masters of the Universe (we'll get to this one in an upcoming episode), Cyborg cobbled together a script, costumes and sets from the developments of Masters of the Universe 2 and a proposed Spider-man film and the results were muscled bound people in sequin shirts and chainmail obsessed with ruling the world. How could this go wrong?