Category: Jo Johnstone

Hit Play: Begin Again

11/11/2014

by Jo Johnstone

With shows such as The X Factor, Pop Idol and Britain's Got Talent all over television, the "rise to fame" story is everywhere you look. Popular culture is filled with characters that have made it from reality TV. In this climate, it is easy to forget that some artists still do make it through hard work and perseverance. With Begin Again, the audience watches the journey of budding young artists set adrift in New York City.

Hit Play: The Addams Family

10/30/2014

by Jo Johnstone

There was a time, not so long ago when the idea of the reboot/remake was not something that came about every five seconds. Sure ideas were reused and redone, but before it was a love of the source material that inspired the work, not just studio profit. One such positive remake came in the early nineties when a group of people decided to re-imagine America's strangest family on the big screen.

Based on the cult sixties comic strip series of Charles Addams' cartoon family, The Addams Family brings the Gothic and peculiar bunch into the modern age. With parents Gomez and Morticia, children Wednesday and Pugsley along with eccentric Grandma Addams. In this version Uncle Fester has been missing from the family home for twenty five years. Scheming businessman Tully decides to send in a Fester look-a-like to take his place and steal the family wealth. As imposter Fester spends time with the unusual bunch, he grows to like them and perhaps finds where he is meant to be.

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