A sharp film discussion finds the original marriage funniest when both spouses are plainly terrible.
This single-episode review frames the film's central marriage as less a romance gone sour than a duel of resentment, pride, and comic overreaction.

Remakes judged fast, funny, and fairly.
Invasion of the Remake treats remakes as arguments, not trivia answers. The conversation moves quickly from jokes to scene mechanics, weighing what changed, what worked, and what a smarter update might have done.
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Invasion of the Remake is a film podcast with a clear obsession: what happens when a movie comes back wearing a new face. The show is not content to say the old one was better. It asks why. Episodes compare structure, tone, casting, satire, violence, jokes, and the exact point where a remake either finds a new reason to exist or starts copying without purpose. The pace is brisk. A throwaway gag can turn into a real critique, and a real critique can swerve into a tangent about another movie that suddenly explains the point better. Recent conversations cover The War of the Roses against The Roses, with attention to escalating cruelty, marriage breakdown, and why both sides of a comic feud can be awful at once. Alien Nation brings out the show’s interest in world-building, social allegory, and whether a premise earns the weight of its title. The Running Man gives it room to argue about dystopian media, coded hunters, advertising satire, and the difference between stylized exaggeration and underplayed threat. The Toxic Avenger episodes lean into messy cult-movie energy while still tracking character, violence, and the strange rules of heroic grotesquerie. Mean Girls and Jingle All the Way bring a different register: teen hierarchy, holiday stress, neglected families, temptation, and comedy that works better on rewatch than memory suggested. There are also trailer-show detours, drive-in textures, and affectionate genre clutter. The show’s strength is the practical imagination of its criticism. It does not just complain that something failed. It often sketches the version that might have worked, then measures that idea against the movie on screen.
Made for: For movie fans who like argument as much as nostalgia, especially viewers who enjoy comparing originals with remakes scene by scene. It suits listeners who want casual banter with real attention to craft.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its remake-first lens: every movie becomes a test case in what should change, what should survive, and what never needed reviving. It mixes quick comic chemistry with surprisingly practical story diagnosis.
They are in your theaters, they are in your neighbors homes, and even your own. They have come to destroy your childhood and ruin your future. Only one podcast can protect you from the Invasion of the Remake! Invasion of the Remake is a weekly podcast with hosts Jason, Trish and Sam exploring the cinematic remake. We discuss films that have been remade for better or worse. We will also find those films with a nugget of a good idea that may be worthy of an updating for a new audience with our own unique ideas and cast to throw into the mix.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It turns remake comparisons into practical story workshops, testing which character choices, images, and themes still hold together.
Invasion of the Remake treats a remake as a working draft. Jason Bishop, Sam Stepaneku, and Trish Coughlin compare films at the level of character choices, visual ideas, story logic, and changing cultural assumptions, then consider what they would preserve or rebuild.
One demon-rock remake pitch makes you want the whole town arguing before the band arrives.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A sharp film discussion finds the original marriage funniest when both spouses are plainly terrible.
This single-episode review frames the film's central marriage as less a romance gone sour than a duel of resentment, pride, and comic overreaction.
A clear, measured review of Alien Nation's assimilation story and the social argument it only partly brings into focus.
Alien Nation comes through as a science-fiction story built around suspicion, settlement, and the limits of assimilation. The review is most persuasive when it follows the premise into the film's smaller choices: a genetically engineered labor race reaches Earth, enters…
A focused review of whether The Running Man's hunters need sharper personality, tighter cover, or both.
This single-episode review works best when it stays with one clean tension: how much personality The Running Man's televised hunters should show.
A remake debate finds lively comic texture in a toy chase and a strained marriage setup.
The episode treats the film as a handy pressure point for a remake-minded conversation. It tracks a husband swallowed by work, a neighbor ready to exploit that distance, and a father whose hunt for a prized toy keeps tipping into louder, rougher comic desperation.
A sharp remake conversation where acid-bleed jokes and a sudden tent complicate Toxie's heroism.
PlayNext's TV and Film beat sets the original Toxic Avenger beside the new film as a lively test of what a remake preserves, revises, and unintentionally exposes. Jason Bishop and Trish Coughlin move through St.
A strange concert horror gets a remake blueprint rooted in small-town panic.
Black Roses works here as a compact test case for a horror remake that would need to know exactly why a small town panics. The discussion circles the concert-driven unease, but its sharper interest is in the machinery around it: parents, religious groups, a community meeting,…
A remake debate lands hardest on one copied drill shot and a batch of cookies the movie cannot quite explain.
The episode uses a Slumber Party Massacre remake discussion to test how horror rules carry over through 80s-movie logic. It moves from the murdered gas-station man, the broken-down car, and the driller killer's presence to the remake's flipped version of the original…

Fake radio, real commitment to nonsense.

Small troubles, expertly inflated.

Sketch ideas from the edge of sense.

Writing talk with rant energy.

Radio-style chaos with a dry grin.

Call logic trapped in a safety hole.
Hosts Jason, Trish, and Sam analyze the 1988 horror film Black Roses, a low-budget Canadian movie about a demonic heavy metal band corrupting a small town.
A comparison of the 1936 and 2002 films Mr.
A comparison of the original 1974 Black Christmas and its 2019 remake, analyzing their differences in tone, themes, and effectiveness as horror films.
Hosts Jason, Trish, and Sam compare the 1982 slasher 'Slumber Party Massacre' with its 2021 remake.
Invasion of the Remake compares Danny DeVito's 1989 The War of the Roses with The Roses from 2025, while Jason Bishop and Trish Coughlin argue over which film makes the marriage collapse feel more believable.
Invasion of the Remake revisits Alien Nation (1988), a James Caan and Mandy Patinkin sci-fi cop film about newcomers, quarantine, and labor in the Mojave Desert.
Invasion of the Remake revisits The Running Man by comparing the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger film with Edgar Wright's 2025 remake.
A comedic interview remembering actress Catherine O'Hara, featuring a humorous skit about family and childbirth.
A podcast episode that presents a parody of emergency broadcast systems and drive-in theater announcements, introducing a show about cult movie trailers and the invasion of remakes.
Hosts Jason Bishop and Trish Coughlin close Season 11 of Invasion of the Remake by covering the 1996 Arnold Schwarzenegger holiday comedy Jingle All the Way, then pitching remake ideas including a heaven-and-hell temptation structure with Sinbad as the angel and the cop as the devil.
Hosts Jason Bishop and Trish Coughlin cover both the 1984 Troma original Toxic Avenger and the 2023 remake starring Peter Dinklage and Kevin Bacon, which spent years without distribution after being deemed too violent despite the Terrifier franchise finding wide release.
A comparison of the 2004 and 2024 versions of Mean Girls, analyzing the characters and cultural impact.
A comparison of the 1989 and 2024 versions of the movie Road House, focusing on a fight scene.
A comparison of the 1992 animated Aladdin and the 2019 live-action remake, analyzing their differences and similarities.