Tag Archives: Antonio Banderas

Film review | Haywire – Gina Carano punches above her weight in Soderbergh’s cracking thriller

Posted on 20 January 2012 by Jason Best

Betrayed by her bosses, a freelance black-ops agent goes on the run in Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire, a taut action thriller that is as briskly efficient and muscular as its heroine. Played by mixed martial artist Gina Carano, lean, mean ex-Marine … Continue reading →

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DVD review | The Skin I Live In – Almodóvar and Banderas, back together and as provocative as ever!

Posted on 22 December 2011 by Jason Best

Arch provocateur Pedro Almodóvar reunites with his 1980s leading man Antonio Banderas for the dark thriller The Skin I Live In, the first time the pair have worked together since the heady days of such films as Law of Desire, … Continue reading →

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Win the DVD and book of Pedro Almodóvar’s thriller The Skin I Live In

Posted on 15 December 2011 by peter

Academy Award winning director Pedro Almodóvar is back with the frightening, yet captivating, high-class thriller The Skin I Live In, which comes to Blu-ray and DVD on 26 December from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Based on Thierry Jonquet’s bestselling … Continue reading →

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Film review | Puss in Boots – Antonio’s pussy galore takes centre stage

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Jason Best

Puss in Boots, the swashbuckling feline sidekick from the Shrek films, gets his own spin-off adventure and it’s a joy, a witty, knowing animation mash-up of fairy tales and spaghetti Westerns, Zorro and Mother Goose. With his Latin suavity and … Continue reading →

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DVD review | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Posted on 11 July 2011 by Jason Best

Despite the mixed critical and commercial fortunes of his recent films, actors still queue up to work with Woody Allen – as is shown by the starry cast he’s assembled for You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, a wry … Continue reading →

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Shrek Forever After – Is it ogre and out for Mike Myers’ big green curmudgeonly hero?

Posted on 2 July 2010 by Jason Best

Shrek is going through a mid-life crisis – which is bad news for him and not so much fun for the rest of us. At the start of Shrek Forever After, his fourth and reportedly last big-screen outing, Mike Myers‘ … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Philadelphia and the AIDS pandemic

Posted on 15 June 2009 by Beth Williams

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video It’s 16 years since this powerful, deeply moving, Oscar-winning film was made. If Swine Flu is a pandemic, then what on earth is AIDS? There are 36 million … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings – Michael Crichton Tribute

Posted on 10 November 2008 by Beth Williams

The blockbuster movies Jurassic Park, Disclosure or The Andromeda Strain would never have hit our screens if hadn’t been for bestselling author Michael Crichton who sadly died last week. To pay tribute to this great novelist and filmmaker, Sky have … Continue reading →

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Knights of the South Bronx & other inspirational teacher movies

Posted on 30 September 2008 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings How many of us are lucky enough to be truly inspired by a teacher at school? Judging how many inspirational teacher movies there are out there, you’d think it was quite common. I don’t think it is. … Continue reading →

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