Tag Archives: Antonio Banderas

DVD review | Haywire – Gina Carano bursts on the scene in a B-movie with A-grade action

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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Win swashbuckling animated adventure Puss in Boots on DVD!

You loved him in Shrek…now see where the one-and-only swashbuckling feline found his fame – and a very big pair of boots – in the hilariously funny animated epic! Lover, fighter and outlaw Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas) is off … Continue reading

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Film review | Black Gold – Far-from-slick dialogue leaves oil epic’s cast floundering in the Arabian sand

Jean-Jacques Annaud makes a bid for the sweep and stature of Lawrence of Arabia with Black Gold, but pedestrian storytelling and clunky dialogue leaves his would-be epic drama about a power struggle between feuding kingdoms in soon-to-be-oil-rich 1920s Arabia bogged … Continue reading

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

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!

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

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

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

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?

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

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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