Articles in Mexican Movie Reviews
Night of the Bloody Apes (1969) Movie Review
“Night of the Bloody Apes” is a slice of schlock horror from 1968 which has long enjoyed a cult following, not least due to its high quotient of sex and violence, which actually led to the film being banned in the UK during the 1980s when it was listed as one of the dreaded ‘video [...]
February 22nd, 2007 | James Mudge | 0 Comments | Read MorePan’s Labyrinth (2006) Movie Review
The 1930s were a terrible time in Spain. Mired in a vicious civil war that saw both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia use Spain as a practice ground for WWII, the country descended into Fascist repression under Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Against this incendiary backdrop, we have Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth,” a visually [...]
December 7th, 2006 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreCronicas (2004) Movie Review
In today’s world of around the clock global news coverage, one gets the sense that all too often the news media has been growing desperate for material to fill airtime, and that this has given rise to an increasingly graphic and questionable predatory style of journalism. And as much as we, the audience, wag our [...]
October 25th, 2005 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreAmores Perros (2000) Movie Review
“Amores Perros” (which roughly translates as ‘Love’s a bitch’) was the feature debut of Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who later went Hollywood with the gritty gloom of “21 Grams”. The film has earned a great deal of praise from critics around the world, as well as picking up awards at numerous festivals, most notably [...]
May 30th, 2005 | James Mudge | 0 Comments | Read MoreSanta Sangre (1989) Movie Review
Amongst the innumerable film directors that have come and gone over the roughly 100 years of motion picture history, there have always been a few who have stood out for being mavericks. Directors such as Samuel Fuller, Orson Welles, Robert Altman and Sam Peckinpah made names for themselves by going against the established studio system, [...]
January 19th, 2005 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreY Tu Mama Tambien (2001) Movie Review
Alfonso Cuaron’s “Y Tu Mama Tambien” (aka “And Your Mother Too”) is a simple Road Movie, and as such, it has all the right combination of character and revelations one expects from a movie in this particular genre. Newsmedia articles I have read on the movie have tended to focus on its stark look at [...]
January 23rd, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreThe Devil’s Backbone (2001) Movie Review
Guillermo del Toro’s “The Devil’s Backbone” wants to be an old-fashioned ghost story, but it’s really just old-fashioned, with some excellent special effects making intermittent appearances to liven things up. For its first 50 minutes or so, “Backbone” plays out like a generic ghost story, with all the filmmaking conventions of the genre followed to [...]
November 2nd, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read More
It looks like a dud. I saw the trailer. Tom is the only person speaking with an American news network ...
nothing they payed fox.... 
OMG!!!! 
