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Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar‘s sexy and thrilling 1997 12th feature film Live Flesh, or Carne Trémula in Spanish (literally ‘trembling flesh’), is a romantic drama thriller starring Liberto Rabal, Javier Bardem, and Francesca Neri. Almodóvar again successfully […]
Sean Penn takes on the Liam Neeson role in this Euro-thriller from Pierre Morel, the director of Taken (2008). But Neeson doesn’t have to worry, he’s still the man. Penn plays Jim Terrier, a mercenary assassination team […]
This tense and moody real-life 2002 Peru-set political thriller makes a superb directorial debut for actor John Malkovich, showing that he really understands actors, the drama and the cinema. It’s long (at 132 minutes) […]
This richly imagined journey into the life and writings of the brilliant openly gay Cuban author and exile Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990) is a devastating, overwhelming piece of cinema, directed and co-written with passion and brilliance […]
Michael Fassbender stars in Ridley Scott’s sinister, smart-looking 2013 neo noir film The Counsellor as a rich, successful wheeler-dealer lawyer, who decides to get involved in the drug trafficking business. Michael Fassbender stars in the […]
The Coen Brothers’ sensational, sizzling 2007 crime thriller film No Country for Old Men won four Oscars, was their biggest hit so far, and was undoubtedly the movie of the year. Certainly the Academy Award […]
‘We came so close to perfection, you and I.’ Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson star as holidaying young American friends Vicky and Cristina, in Woody Allen’s return to his finest form, the 2008 romantic comedy-drama […]