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With the release of the new version of The Wedding Banquet —a remake of Ang Lee ’s wonderful 1993 comedy—I got to thinking about remakes. Specifically, the rare remake that not only justifies its existence, but actually improves on the original. It doesn’t happen often. In fact, it’s a pretty short list. But when it does happen, it’s worth celebrating. So, I decided to put together a list of 15 remakes that, in my opinion, are actually better than the original movies they we

With the recent film release of the hugely successful Broadway musical "Wicked" (a musical I did NOT like), I thought I'd share a list of my 10 Favorite Movie Musicals. My list features musicals from the 1970s onward because, in reality, most great movie musicals were released between the late 1930s and the 1950s (with a few legendary ones in the 1960s). Incredible films like "Singin' In the Rain," "A Hard Day's Night," "Mary Poppins," "My Fair Lady," "Funny Face,"