Posts Tagged ‘Penelope Cruz’
Film Review – The Bride!
Bizarre, absurd, beautiful, tragic, and everything in between, The Bride! (2026) is an ambitious undertaking that re-imagines The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) in a completely new light. Writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal takes a big departure from her last feature (The Lost Daughter (2021)) for a bigger and weirder project. This isn’t just…
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Episode 138 – Beau is Afraid
For this week’s podcast, we discuss our favorite “mind-freak” movies and we review Ari Aster‘s latest freakout, Beau is Afraid. We also discuss the 1997 Spanish psycho-drama, Open Your Eyes. Download the episode here.
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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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Top 15 Films of 2021 – Allen’s Picks
2021 felt like a year that was in a constant state of limbo. The Covid-19 pandemic has gripped the world for nearly two full years, and while some parts of society have started adjusting to a new way of living, it always felt like a…
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Film Review – Parallel Mothers
Pedro Almodóvar is one of the few filmmakers in the world who can depict melodrama with such precise observation. Others would steer away from the genre, thinking it too schmaltzy or overdramatic. That is not the case with Almodóvar. His stories involve love, deception, sex,…
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