In 1984, Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson and Jennifer Grey took up arms in guerrilla warfare to safe-guard their America from the the Soviet Union and its Cuban and Nicaraguan allies. In 2012, this premise was re-worked to suit the current political climate, making North Koreans the new big baddies. One was made at a time when the Cold War was still a heavy presence in U.S. culture. The other came about during a time of re-make madness.

Production of sci-fi action film Robopocalypse has been put on hold

Full of Northerners, then. Goody.

In related news, Rupert Sanders is still sleeping in the dog house

Millionaire actor continues to find gainful employment.

In the future there will be robots.

We really need to start pre-empting these robot-apocalypse issues at the design stage.

That sounds Thor-oughly splendid.

The Dark World just got brighter.

Go Wolverines! And so on.