It seems to be a trend at the moment in Hollywood that they are remaking, or as they like to call it reimagining, films of which some shouldn’t be touched either because they were that bad in the first place and have now got a cult status or they think they can make them better.

Amongst the latest films to fall victim of this Hollywood trend are The Neverending Story and Total Recall, ok so some will disagree with me on this one, but The Neverending Story is a classic with it’s puppetry, yes I know there is a quite a bit missing from the original book, but is that any excuse to remake it, also Total Recall, probably and I say this loosely, Arnie’s best film…

But it doesn’t stop there, oh no, in there money making wisdom announcements have been made for a “reworking” of The Karate Kid staring Jackie Chan, Arthur with Russel Brand and Romancing the Stone.

I could go on, but I think it would be fun for my readers to comment with films tat they have heard are to be ripped off, sorry remade, err no reimagined!!!

This is my call to the Hollywood writers to come out with an original film, yes I know it may be hard to do as most of the original movie well is drying up, but surely someone can come up with something fresh and not re-pulped…

I was just reading about the fires in Australia and it now seems that the Police have mounted a huge manhunt for the arsonists that started the wildfires and believe that the wildfires may of killed in the region of 300 people and destroyed around 1,000 homes.

The Australian police have already arrested and charged a 31 year old man and a 15 year old boy with starting fires in New South Wales and thankfully no deaths have been reported, so far.

It makes you wonder what is going through the minds of those that started the fires, are they laughing at what they have done or are they feeling some remorse, maybe we will know more when or if the police capture these idiots.

Now this is a bit of local news for me, as I only live a few miles away, but it shocked me so I had to share it with you all reading this blog.

On the 20th October a local family David and Michelle Statham, 38 and 33, and their children Reece, 13, Jay, nine, Mason, 20 months, and Ellouise, 10 weeks, were tragically killed on the M6 motorway on their way back home to North Wales.

Now what makes this really sickening is that the push bikes of Reece and Jay who were origannly from Birmingham were stolen from their home in Llandudno. What goes through the mind of a child who steals bikes from a grieving family home.

The boy who is 16 has been given a 24 hour reparation order where he must make an apology to the Statham’s via writing.

The two bikes were taken from the Statham’s back garden only three days after their funeral while.

In a statement read to the court the children’s grandmother, Carole Hagans, said: “All of my family’s possessions are cherished.”

“I’m deeply upset that although recent events have been so publicised someone has targeted my family’s home and stolen the bicycles. This is a truly callous act.”

“I now don’t feel that I can leave the property empty as I’m fearful more possessions will be stolen.”

In his defense the boy said that he had no idea that the bikes belonged to the Statham’s and that after seeing the bike only “borrowed” it for a “short journey” and is sorry he upset the immediate family.

So what do you think, do you think his apology is enough? Or do you think the punishment should be more?