Due to last week being Thanksgiving vacation, we need to catch up on last week’s news you may have missed over the break. The original “Red Dawn” by John Milius (the real life Walter Sobchak) was a slightly cheesy, but memorable 1980s Cold War film that was actually the first PG-13 rated film. This is a remake of that film, updated from the Soviet Union invading a small town to North Korea being the enemy. Our band of America teenage defenders includes Chris Hemsworth (“Thor”), Josh Hutcherson (“The Hunger Games”) and Josh Peck (“Drake and Josh”). Yeah, Hemsworth’s gonna have to work overtime to phase out the others. Patrick Swayze in the original film at least had a fellow cast mate from “The Outsiders,” C. Thomas Howell and pre-Tiger Blood and Two-and-Half Men Charlie Sheen at his side. This unnecessary remake was actually supposed to come out two years ago, but was shelved due to the original studio’s financial troubles. Unfortunately, it was picked up by another distributor and released, when it should have stayed on the shelf.