The Stepford Wives.
Last night when I really should have done something more important like go to bed I started watching this 2004 film on TV, laughingly described as a Black Comedy/Sci-Fi, okay change that to unfunny Fake-Sci-Fi cheese-fest remake, with the under-used talents of Glenn Close and Christopher Walken. Nicole Kidman gave a good performance as a brunette, but spoiled it all at the end by predictably turning blond.
Matthew Broderick was onscreen with some over muscled arms and a pumped-up chest beneath his cardigan, strange, I always think of him as looking like a slim geeky actor in previous films, although he was actually cast in the role of a meek geek in this movie, oh, and Bette Midler was in there too, when's the last time I saw her in a movie? though bizarrely at one point in the plot someone did say the line "You are the wings beneath my feet" (re: Beaches).
I remember the original 1975 film on TV, its plot about sanctioned murder and mass conspiracy taking place around an individual wasn't quite in the same league as other similarly themed films, such as: Coma, Rosemarys Baby, or The Bodysnatcher's, but it's a pity a more serious remake hasn't arrived exploring a dramatic spin on this story of a creepy community of misogynist's, secretly killing the mothers of their children, and replacing them with permanently smiley facsimiles.
As a spectacle Eurovision can't be beaten, and well done Graham Norton for being every bit as engaging as Terry Wogan but with a certain freshness replacing the cynicism. Brilliant. All this and another league title, what a day! 