Category: Joan Wilder movies

  • The Jewel of the Nile (1985, Lewis Teague)

    If there’s a better example of why not every successful film should have a sequel than The Jewel of the Nile, I can’t think of it. Nile should be a lot of fun–Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner are still likable, Danny DeVito’s still hilarious… but it soon becomes clear Douglas and Turner are more likable…

  • Romancing the Stone (1984, Robert Zemeckis)

    So much of Romancing the Stone is perfect, when the film has bumps, they stand out. Even worse, it closes on one of those bumps. The finale is so poorly handled, one has to wonder if it’s the result of a rewrite. Anyway, on to the glowing stuff. The film’s a technical marvel. Zemeckis’s Panavision…