Spains Pedro Almodovar has become a darling of world cinema with his absurdist take on the battle of the sexes. In dissecting what it is that draws us together and drives us apart, he doesnt exaggerate the situation so much as show his characters acting as insanely as any of us would, given half the… Read More »
I’M SO EXCITED (“Los amantes pasajeros”)
IM SO EXCITED is pure Almodovar. With a nod to his early films that were full of mayhem, comedy, and tragedy in equal measure, this literally high-flying fantasy is all that with a wicked sense of satire. In Almodovars universe, absurdity is the rule, extrapolating reality to its farthest possibilities to make a point that… Read More »
KM 0
It’s Madrid, it’s summer, and the only thing soaring higher than the temperature are the hormones of an unlikely band of strangers who are about to become much more in Juan Luis Iborra and Yolanda Barcia Serrano’s frothy and very sexy comedy, KM O. There’s nothing too deep here, unless you count the power of… Read More »
THE OTHERS
Are there things that are more scary than ghosts? Are close encounters with the other side, as it were, the ultimate in terror? Writer/director Alejandro Amenabar does a neat job of answering that question with THE OTHERS, a ghost story where neither good nor evil should be taken for granted. The story takes place entirely… Read More »
BURIED
It would be easy, and a huge mistake, to dismiss BURIED as a stunt film. Sure, Ryan Reynolds spends the entire 94 minutes of the running time buried underground in a box, but such is the imaginative take on the subject by screenwriter Chris Sparling and director Roderigo Cortes, that the struggle of one confined… Read More »
BURIED
It would be easy, and a huge mistake, to dismiss BURIED as a stunt film. Sure, Ryan Reynolds spends the entire 94 minutes of the running time buried underground in a box, but such is the imaginative take on the subject by screenwriter Chris Sparling and director Roderigo Cortes, that the struggle of one confined… Read More »