"What can I say, I was a bad kitty," explains Antonio Banderas's outlaw mog at the start of this very enjoyable spin-off from the Shrek franchise.
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Broken Embraces, Pedro Almodovar, 128 mins, (15)<br/>The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, 131 mins, (15)
Sunday 30 August 2009
Almodovar pays homage to Hitchcock, Sirk – and himself
Broken Embraces (15)
Friday 28 August 2009
After a run of world-class films that began 10 years ago with All about My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar has slightly taken his foot off the pedal here.
DVD review: High Heels (18), Pedro Almodovar, 109 mins
Friday 31 July 2009
This melodrama from Pedro Almodóvar, originally released in 1991, may not be the best introduction to the director's work, but it is a touching tale of family, love and murder.
Words: otto, n.
Monday 06 December 1999
SUCH IS the fascination of the events and narrative structure of the new Spanish movie Lovers of the Arctic Circle that the mind wanders only briefly to speculate about the name of one of these palindromic lovers: Otto (she is Ana).
Sensual heat, mysterious cool
Thursday 24 July 1997
Spanish director Julio Medem has been making movies since his teens. Nick Hasted talks to him about his latest, `Tierra', in which he confronts the mysteries of the universe and the inside of his head
Love, sex, intelligence
Thursday 08 February 1996
Victoria Abril is playful, unafraid, impervious; an emblematic actress for post-Franco Spain. John Lyttle shared a sofa
CINEMA / It's just take, take, take
Sunday 03 July 1994
TO IMPROVE on mediocrity is a humble ambition, but still beyond the scope of The Getaway (18). Roger Donaldson's new film is a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1972 heist movie which starred Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw, and for once the catch-all term 're-make' has a baleful accuracy. Peckinpah's film has not been re-
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