Tag Archives: Madrid

Out on DVD | Broken Embraces – Pedro’s camera adores luminous Penélope

Posted on 1 February 2010 by Jason Best

Pedro Almodóvar lush romantic melodrama Broken Embraces doesn’t find the director at the very top of his game – it’s just a little too self-indulgent and self-referential to match such triumphs as Talk to Her and Volver – but even … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Broken Embraces – Penélope Cruz lights up Pedro Almodóvar’s lush romantic melodrama

Posted on 28 August 2009 by Jason Best

Pedro Almodóvar reunites with favourite leading lady Penélope Cruz for the first time since their triumph with 2006’s tragic-comic melodrama Volver. Broken Embraces, their new movie, doesn’t scale its predecessor’s heights but still contains much to delight fans of both … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Little Ashes – Robert Pattinson flaunts his stuff as Salvador Dalí in low-budget historical romance

Posted on 12 July 2009 by Jason Best

Before winning global fame as Twilight’s swooonsome vampire hero Edward Cullen, Robert Pattinson gave a very different performance as the sexually ambivalent Salvador Dalí in this low-budget British-made historical drama co-starring Javier Beltrán and Matthew McNulty. Looking like an overgrown … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | [Rec]: is this film overrated?

Posted on 25 March 2009 by Beth Williams

Showing on Sky Movies Premiere tonight at 10pm People raved about this Spanish film (remade in the US as Quarantine last year) so I had high hopes when I finally came to watching it, but I have to admit that … Continue reading →

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The Best View – Caramel & The 2 Sides of the Bed

Posted on 8 September 2008 by Jason Best

Released on DVD today is a movie called Caramel in which a group of women gossip and bond in the local beauty parlour. Yet another Hollywood chick flick, surely? Another film to file alongside Steel Magnolias and Beauty Shop? Well, … Continue reading →

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