Posts Tagged ‘Antonio Banderas’
Film Review – Official Competition
It’s been said that any movie – regardless of quality – is something of a miracle. That’s because cinema is the most collaborative artform. Painters have themselves, a brush, and a canvas to work with. In contrast, it can take dozens (sometimes even hundreds) of…
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Episode 71 – Army of the Dead
For this week’s podcast, we review the ups and downs of Zack Snyder‘s Netflix original movie, Army of the Dead. We also discuss JJ Abrams‘ recent admission that the latest Star Wars trilogy was ill-conceived. Before the reviews, we retool classic movie plots in a…
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Film Review – Dolittle (2020)
Dolittle (2020) is the kind of middle-of-the-road film that is frustrating to write about. On one hand, it’s not remarkable enough to jump over the moon and sing its praises. On the other, it’s just competent enough to provide some level of entertainment. It’s the…
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Film Review – Pain and Glory
Pedro Almodóvar has too much he wants to talk about and that keeps the film from reaching great status, which is a shame because what he wants to discuss is really fascinating. In Pain and Glory Salvador (Antonio Banderas), a stand-in for Pedro Almodóvar, is…
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Film Review – Knight of Cups
I dread the day Terrence Malick stops making films. He is one of a kind, an original voice. No one makes movies the same way he does, and when he decides to call it quits he will take away a view of the world entirely…
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Film Review – The 33
In late 2010, the world became aware of 33 miners in Chile that were trapped with no means of escape. It became a phenomenon with their eventual rescue being broadcast live as each miner arrived to the surface. The subject of many proposed dramatizations of…
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Film Review – The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water
“Are ya ready kids?!” It’s crazy to think that SpongeBob Squarepants has been a TV staple for something like 15 years now. It has been a monster success for most of that time and has probably made the voice of Spongebob Tom Kenney a bazillionare.…
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Film Review – Autómata
In Isaac Asimov’s Robot series of short stories and novels, he introduces the three laws of robotics to safeguard humans against a potentially superior force. 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.…
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