One of my, shall we say, spies, saw "The Stepford Wives" about two weeks ago and had nothing kind to say about it. This version of the movie, a remake of the 1975 horror classic, has an all-star cast.

The female cast in a publicity still for 'The Stepford Wives', directed by Bryan Forbes, 1975. (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images) This article was originally published on The Conversation.

The original Stepford Wives was a pretty cool film, if not one that I’ve exactly tattooed on my back. It had a becomingly biting sense of black humor, a keen bit of social satire, and one of th ...

The reflection prompts the decision to move to male-utopia, aka Stepford, Conn. It doesn’t take long to figure out that something’s not quite right about the town populated by nerds and their ...

The Stepford WivesJoanna’s dawning realization that the women of Stepford aren’t quite human is supposed to disturb her, as is Walter’s realization that he rather admires the pneumatic ...

A Stepford Wives that worked as social satire today would be different from its predecessor: It would be at least as much about the project of perfecting children as that of perfecting wives. It ...

In the remake, the Stepford women wear the bright, sunny colors of an eternal summer, unbothered by mosquitoes or humidity. They wear pretty floral dresses with cinched waists, petticoats and heels.

"The Stepford Wives" took home triple honors at the fifth annual Golden Trailer Awards Tuesday at downtown L.A.'s Orpheum Theater. Paramount's summer comedy claimed wins in the most original and ...

Stepford’s lively, dollhouse look By David A. Keeps; Abra Deering Norton June 24, 2004 12 AM PT ...

"The Stepford Wives" depends for some of its effect on a plot secret that you already know, if you've been paying attention at any time since the original film version was released in 1975.