Film rewinds the Cold War

Red Dawn, a ticking time bomb of a movie, is set to go off in November, when it hits cinemas in the US and overseas.

Motion picture cognoscenti might recall the original Red Dawn, a 1980s film in which a band of American youths repel Soviet soldiers. In the remake, Chinese soldiers and the Russians are cast as invaders of a small US city.

In several photographs taken at the Red Dawn sets in the Detroit area, the tagline "They are here to help" courses through the propaganda banners placed by the invaders of a fictionalized version of Spokane, Wash.