This Spanish LGBT movie is like a cute old-fashioned melodrama, complete with one of those soundtracks that builds up the pitch to exaggerate the tension in this drama with a brother and sister both fighting to win the heart (and body ) of the hot farm hand that works on the horse ranch they own. … Continue reading
Young Guillermo (Israel Rodríguez) has an insatiable appetite for sex. Not only that, but this 16 year-old schoolboy shows a remarkable maturity in manipulating older guys into getting what he wants. Every day after school is out he sneaks off to the Mall to find a new sexual partner who he lures into the … Continue reading
For his latest movie …….his 20th …..Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar has done a 360 degree turn from his last film the outrageously camp farce ‘I’m So Excited‘ and eschewed comedy completely to make one of his excellent signature female-centric melodramas. Julieta is loosely based on three short stories from the Canadian Pulitizer-Prize writer Janet Munro and … Continue reading
We are sadly too used to Hollywood making big-budget remakes of successful independent European films which inevitable end up as poor shadows of the original and fail at the box office. e.g. the French ‘Anthony Zimmer‘ that became the big Angelina Jolie dud ‘The Tourist‘. However in the case of the Spanish sex comedy ‘Kiki’ … Continue reading
Inés’s (Celia Freijeiro) life is always a mess because she simply wants it all. Or at least she wants to make out with every single good looking girl that she comes across regardless of the circumstances. We learn this in the opening moments of this hilarious Spanish farce in which it seems that every woman … Continue reading