Showing posts with label William Goldman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Goldman. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 June 2019

The Stepford Wives (1975)



A new wife in a commuter village finds all her female friends too good to be true...because their husbands have had them replaced by computerized models.

From memory: A fascinating, often copied premise is well staged with some faults in pacing, but is quite effective and keeps its audience on guard to the end.

Halliwell*: "An attractive idea which needs a much lighter and pacier touch but entertains in patches and shows agreeable sophistication."

Maltin***: "Effective chiller..."


Thursday, 4 January 2018

The Princess Bride (1987)



While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him a story called The Princess Bride.

Ambitiously tongue-in-cheek, but quite dated fantasy has some nice sequences; however, the humor is rather stale.

Halliwell*: "Rather strained fantasy with occasional bright moments."

Maltin**1/2: "Revisionist fairy tale/adventure...Some wonderful scenes and character vignettes are periodically undermined by a tendency toward comic shtick...and occassional incoherency...Best of all: the swashbuckling sequences."