THE HUNTING WIVES (2025)

The Stepford Wives meets Twin Peaks meets The L Word  meets Desperate Housewives meets A Simple Plan (and some Gypsy, another Netflix series, thrown in)... About rich Texas Republicans who use every cliche (and red state reference) in the book, which is obviously overly deliberate, and thankfully the characters thaw out of their formidable shells into seeming more human than hackneyed... With a frame story about a gorgeous blonde teenage cheerleader whose death rocks the town, straight from that famous David Lynch series, but THE HUNTING WIVES isn't really ironical or weird, just extremely sexual...

The two main characters are Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow: one's older and hot and confident; the other's shy and mousy-cute, looks 22 when she's 40... Their lesbian romance is so overly hinted at and teased, there's not the necessary tension in their inevitable hooking up... Overall, despite the high-class-suburban conservative setting, things are so sensuously liberal that there's really no shock value in the nighttime soap opera elements... it's like lighting up a fuse that's already sizzling... But these two ladies are good enough in their opposites-attract attraction to keep the pulpy/page-turning (eventually neo-noir inspired) cadence worthwhile. Rating: ***1/2


at
Labels: , , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Featured Post

ANACONDA (2025)

In the comedy Be Kind: Rewind, Jack Black and his sidekick make homemade movies to replace real ones, which is exactly what happens here, o...

  • COCAINE: ONE MAN'S SEDUCTION (1983)
    David Ackroyd tells Dennis Weaver the same thing that John Kapoles would say to James Woods in THE BOOST... that they need a boost... which...
  • TITAN: THE OCEANGATE SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER (2025)
    By the time we reach the end of TITAN, to see what the audience is waiting for... the death of the five passengers including infamous Stoc...
  • EYE SEE YOU
    title: EYE SEE YOU year: 2002 cast: Sylvester Stallone, Tom Berenger, Charles Dutton, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Prosky, Robert Patrick, R...
  • NIGHT TIDE
    title: NIGHT TIDE year: 1961 cast: Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Luana Anders, Gavin Muir director: Curtis Harrington rating: ***1/2 Man...
  • HARBOR COMMAND (TV SERIES 1957-1958)
    Although on the big screen the film noir/crime b-movies were on their way out (or morphing into something else), television held onto this ...
  • ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR
    Blake Lively in ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR Year: 2025 Rating: ** Chalk this up as one of the most unnecessary sequels ever made. The original, Pau...
  • COUNTDOWN: PAUL VS TYSON (2024)
    If you count how long the left-wing streaming company Netflix deals with Mike Tyson's downfall, particularly his going to jail, it last...
  • SUPERDAD
    title: SUPERDAD year: 1972 cast: Bob Crane, Kurt Russell, Bruno Kirby, Ed Begley Jr. rating: *1/2 Creepy. The intro has Bob C...
  • GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE
      Mckenna Grace in GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE Year: 2024 Rates: ** Jason Reitman's GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE set up a rural family to bec...
  • OLIVER'S STORY (1978)
    Poor Ryan O'Neal couldn't catch a break. Even two films now considered classics didn't make money in the 1970's upon relea...