TheRetroCritic

A remake of the 1975 satirical sci-fi thriller, Frank Oz's The Stepford Wives was released in 2004 and it was a more light-hearted, comedic take on the story. Nicole Kidman is Joanna Eberhart, a reality TV producer we first meet as she announces the exploitative new shows she's currently working on. She soon gets fired, however, after one of the people whose life was ruined by one of her shows comes back and threatens her life in front of everybody. Looking for a fresh start following a nervous breakdown, she, her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) and their kids move to a suburb in Connecticut. They are greeted by an overly friendly and smiley Glenn Close who introduces them to the Stepford community that seems to function not unlike 1950's suburbia with the husbands doing whatever they want and the wives catering to their husbands' needs with bright-coloured dresses and a big smile on their face. Joanna tries to fit in at first but, soon enough, she starts to no

Here is the video version of my Bowfinger review.

Here's a Frank Oz comedy with a premise so good it really should be much more remembered than it actually is. Bowfinger sees Steve Martin play a desperate film director who attempts to make a trashy science fiction film with a big star (Eddie Murphy's Kit Ramsey) by shooting him and splicing him into the film without him ever knowing it. Unfortunately, Ramsey is a bit, shall we say, quirky and believes aliens to be real so all these weird goings on quickly get to him. Like a cross between Ed Wood , L.A. Story and The Nutty Professor , Bowfinger is a goofy love letter to filmmaking that's tons of fun from start to finish. The Murphy/Martin duo works perfectly and neither actor has really been quite as good in a straight-up comedy as they are here since. Sure Novocaine and Shopgirl were pretty good, as were the Shrek movies, but there's a refreshingly old-fashioned approach to Bowfinger which gives it more of a cult comedy feel than the others. This is the ki