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15 Best Movie Remakes
500 Year Evolution of the Resume [infographic]
Awesome iPhone 5 Concept Features
Profile Pictures by Mathieu Grac
Happy Birthday, Sad Keanu Reeves

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 12:09 PM PDT

It seems that most of Hollywood movies of recent years have been based on remakes whether it's a remake of a movie, book, TV show, musical – the majority of them suck. But here is a list of 15 movies that are actually not too bad.

15. "Meet Joe Black", 1998, directed by Martin Brest. Remake of the film "Death Takes a Holiday", 1934, directed by Mitchell Leisen, USA.

14. "Gone in 60 Seconds", 2000, directed by Dominic Sena. Remake of the movie "Gone in 60 Seconds", 1974, directed by G.B. Galitsky, USA.

13. "Unfaithful", 2002, directed by Adrian Lane. Remake of the movie "La femme infidele", 1968., Directed by Claude Chabrol, France.

12. "Blind Fury", 1989, directed by Phillip Noyce. Remake of the film "Zatoichi chikemurikaid", 1967, directed by Kenji Misumi, Japan.

11. "Ocean's Eleven", 2001, directed by Steven Soderbergh. Remake of the movie "Ocean's eleven", 1960, directed by Lewis Milestone, USA.

10. "The Thing", 1982, directed by John Carpenter. Remake of the movie "The Thing from Another World", 1951, directed by Christian Naibi, USA.

9. "Twelve Monkeys", 1995, directed by Terry Gilliam. Remake of the short film "La jetee", 1962, directed by Chris Marker, France.

8. "Per un pugno di dollari", 1964, directed by Sergio Leone. Remake of the film "Yojimbo", 1961, directed by Akira Kurosawa, Japan.

7. "Scent of a Woman", 1992, directed by Martin Brest. A remake of the film "Profumo di donna", 1974, Dino Risi, Italy.

6. "3:10 to Yuma", 2007, directed by James Mangold. Remake of the film "3:10 to Yuma", 1957, directed by Delmer Deyvza, USA.

5. "The Fly" , 1986, directed by David Cronenberg. Remake of the movie "The Fly", 1958, directed by Kurt Neumann, the United States.

4. "The Departed" , 2006, directed by Martin Scorsese. Remake of the movie "Mou gaan dou" in 2002, directors Wei Keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak, Hong Kong.

3. "Some Like It Hot", 1959, directed by Billy Wilder. Remake of the movie "Fanfaren der Liebe", 1952, directed by Kurt Hoffmann, Germany.

2. "Vanilla Sky" , 2001, director Cameron Crowe. Remake of the film "Abre los ojos", 1997., Directed by Alejandro Amenabar, France, Italy and Spain. Penelope Cruz stars in both movies.

1. "The Magnificent Seven" , 1960, directed by John Sturges. Remake of the movie "Shichinin no samurai", 1954, directed by Akira Kurosawa, Japan.

500 Year Evolution of the Resume [infographic]

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 12:02 PM PDT

Did you know that the Resume is 500 years old ? Leonardo Da Vinci created the first one in 1482.

In 1983, Microsoft Word set the standard for resumes.

In 1995, the Email becomes the new popular way to send a resume to an employer.

In 1996, Adobe Reader offers a new format with PDF.

In 2007, video resumes hit YouTube.

Founded in 2003, LinkedIn becomes really popular in 2008, paving the way for professionnal social networking on the Internet.

In 2011, job search and recruiting via social media become very popular, although some articles mention that companies are starting to turn their backs on Social Media.

Source: rezscore

Awesome iPhone 5 Concept Features

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 11:56 PM PDT

This CG iPhone 5 has advanced iPhone features such as a sleeker iPhone design, a laser keyboard & holographic display all rolled into this iPhone 5 video.

Profile Pictures by Mathieu Grac

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 10:23 PM PDT

Here's a great photographic series called "Boyz and Girlz du net" made by Mathieu Grac who takes sharp focus at the Myspace and Facebook generation and the proliferation of self-shooters who take their own profile photos in front of a mirror or in a convoluted and unnatural pose. How do these self-shooters pull off their special-angled photography? Take a look.

Happy Birthday, Sad Keanu Reeves

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 09:30 PM PDT

On September 2nd was Keanu Reeves birthday! He turned 47. Please don't give him a cupcake, though. He'll turn into Confused Keanu. Keanu's had many memorable roles in a ton of classic movies but none of those compare to his part as the world's most photoshopped meme titled, "Sad Keanu".

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