Articles in Spanish Movie Reviews
Labyrinth of Passion (1982) Movie Review
“Labyrinth of Passion” is a new Tartan release of an early 1982 effort from internationally acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. The film is a scandalous look at love and sex in early 1980s Madrid which throws off the shackles of good taste and proudly celebrates excess and the alternative ways of life, which at the [...]
July 8th, 2007 | James Mudge | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Night of the Sunflowers (2006) Movie Review
One of the residents of a declining little village in northern Spain comes across an ancient cave in the nearby hills. Hoping to revitalize the town through the potential touristic possibilities of a prehistoric cave, the locals call upon Speleologist Esteban (Carmello Gomez), who arrives in the region to investigate the cave with his assistant [...]
July 1st, 2007 | Gopal | 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 MoreHorrorfest: 8, uh, 3 Films to Die For! / Reincarnation (2005), The Abandoned (2006), The Gravedancers (2006) Movie Reviews
I would guess that by now most of you caught the frenetic commercials for this unique horror “fest” that appeared to be a scary new ride at Great Adventure. The fest played at only 500 venues across the United States from Friday November 17th to Tuesday the 21st. I originally planned on seeing all eight [...]
December 1st, 2006 | Brian Holcomb | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Deal (2006) Movie Review
“The Deal” was shot mainly (if not entirely) in Spain with, in all likelihood, Spanish money, but stars a couple of somewhat well-known American actors in order to sell the film to American cable TV stations and Blockbuster Video. The presence of Penelope Ann Miller and Henry Thomas, though far removed from their Hollywood A-movie [...]
November 25th, 2006 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Life aka Yo Puta aka Whore (2004) Movie Review
One of the most confusing things about “The Life,” a film fraught with confusion, is what to call it. Upon theatrical release it was called “Yo Puta,” presumably because the film is based on a novel of the same name. Between then and the recent DVD release, a decision was made to market it overseas [...]
March 9th, 2005 | Donnie Saxton | 0 comments | Read MoreCronos (1993) Movie Review
The Mexican movie “Cronos” is undoubtedly one of the better horror films of the 1990s. At times unsettling, at other times moving and compassionate, this is a vampire film that never conforms to any of the given rules or wisdom regarding the genre. Beautifully made, this is a true gem; a thoughtful and creepy experience [...]
September 2nd, 2004 | James Mudge | 0 comments | Read MoreNobody Knows Anybody (1999) Movie Review
The title of the Spanish film “Nobody Knows Anybody” is probably too appropriate for its own good. The movie, about a lonely man who gets drawn into a dangerous and elaborate game is reminiscent of David Fincher’s “The Game”, and indeed more than a couple of elements from Fincher’s movie finds their way into Mateo [...]
April 22nd, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreDarkness (2002) Movie Review
The new horror movie “Darkness”, not to be confused with “Darkness Falls” (although both films share similar gimmicks involving darkness), stars Anna Paquin (”X-Men”) as a teen whose family moves into an old house in the Spanish countryside — or “the sticks” as Paquin’s Regina calls it. The house, as it turns out, has no [...]
April 4th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreOpen Your Eyes (1997) Movie Review
Having seen Cameron Crowe’s American remake of Spaniard Alejandro Amenabar’s “Open Your Eyes” first, it’s inevitable that I would make the mistake of comparing “Open Your Eyes” to “Vanilla Sky” and not the other way around (as is the correct way). When considering the two movies, it’s not a question of what did Crowe change, [...]
March 7th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More
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