Tag: The Stepford Wives
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‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Review: Olivia Wilde Goes The Mystery Box Route With ‘The Stepford Wives’ Meets ‘The Matrix’ [Venice]
Following her outstanding and irreverent directorial debut, “Booksmart,” actor-turned-filmmaker Olivia Wilde returns with a much more ambitious effort in “Don’t Worry Darling.” Taking the mystery box route, “Twilight Zone” meets “The Stepford Wives,” with a little dash of “The Matrix,” the audacious film is ultimately a misfire because of its overextending mystery conceit. But regardless,…
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One Of The Scariest Scenes In The Original Stepford Wives Reminds Us That Our Bodies Aren’t Our Own
(Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Matt Donato and Ariel Fisher. In this edition, Ariel gets horrified in Stepford, Connecticut, while Matt hides behind a white picket fence.)I’ve never seen “The Stepford Wives” before this. I’ve been meaning to watch…
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E.T. Star Dee Wallace Boards Rob Zombie’s The Munsters
The Munster family just keeps growing. The latest update on the wholesome monster household on Mockingbird Lane comes courtesy of “The Munsters” director Rob Zombie. Via his Instagram, the filmmaker revealed that “E.T.: The Extraterrestrial” star and frequent Zombie collaborator Dee Wallace is on board for the new film.Wallace has worked with the shock rock musician…
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How Fennec Shand Subverts An Irritating Sci-Fi Trope In The Book Of Boba Fett
The Greek myth of Pygmalion told of a misogynist sculptor who fell in love with an ivory statue of a woman he had carved, “detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women,” only able to find love with a woman created artificially from his own fantastical design. As we evolved as a…
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‘Vivarium’ Review: Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots Star in a Creepy Suburban Brain Bender
With a nifty premise torn out of “The Twilight Zone” and a superb performance from Imogen Poots, “Vivarium” offers either the sort of horrifying distraction you might need right now, or a shattering window into the darkest parts of yourself you just don’t care to see.Gemma (Imogen Poots) and Tom are a young couple looking…
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Cannes Film Review: ‘Vivarium’
Ah, the suburbs. The rec rooms and Formica kitchens and manicured lawns. The cozy suffocating middle-class conformity. The way they once stood for everything that was worth rebelling against. For decades, the suburbs have been the ultimate cheap-shot movie punchline — not just a location but a state of mind, a place to thumb our…
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Peter Masterson, Actor, Director and ‘Best Little Whorehouse in Texas’ Writer, Dies at 84
Peter Masterson, the actor, director and writer from Houston known for his wide-ranging work on The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Trip to Bountiful, The Exorcist and The Stepford Wives, has died. He was 84.Masterson suffered from Parkinson’s disease and died Wednesday at his home in Kinderhook, New York, after a fall, the Houston…
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‘Noir Town’: Jordan Peele and Janelle Monáe Reimagine Hitchcock With A Woman Of Color in the Lead Role
Jordan Peele was quite vocal about his intentions to subvert classic thrillers like “The Stepford Wives” in “Get Out,” and he’s up to something similar in a new project for W Magazine titled “Noir Town.” The publication asked the Oscar-nominated filmmaker to direct a fashion photo shoot, so he decided to call up his friend…