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Kika **** (1993, Verónica Forqué, Peter Coyote, Victoria Abril, Àlex Casanovas, Rossy de Palma, Francisca Caballero) – Classic Movie Review 3569

Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s biting 1993 black comedy is a typically savage, no-holds-barred assault on modern media culture. More focused and controlled than his early work in the Eighties, this is lit up by Victoria Abril’s powerhouse turn as […]

Apr, 16 · in Reviews

Dark Habits [Entre Tinieblas] *** (1983, Cristina Sánchez Pascual, Carmen Maura, Marisa Paredes, Julieta Serrano, Chus Lampreave) – Classic Movie Review 3573

This tasty 1983 black comedy from fashionable cult writer-director Pedro Almodóvar is his third film – after Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) and Labyrinth of Passion (1982). It has an almost all-female cast featuring many of his favourite leading ladies and is […]

Apr, 16 · in Reviews

The Flower of My Secret [La Flor de mi Secreto] **** (1995, Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Carme Elias, Rossy de Palma, Chus Lampreave) – Classic Movie Review 3574

The Flower of My Secret [La Flor de mi Secreto] from 1995 is one of Pedro Almódovar’s best, smartest, and most mature movies. It boasts a serious, intelligent screenplay by him that explores his characters and situations […]

Apr, 15

Mirror [Zerkalo] ***** (1975, Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev) – Classic Movie Review 3568

Co-writer/director Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterly 1975 kaleidoscope of personal imagery has a strong, poetic and characteristic use of the elements and images – the wind constantly moving the tall grasses, the burning barn, the flooded room, […]

Apr, 14

Ivan’s Childhood [Ivanovo Detstvo] ***** (1962, Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov) – Classic Movie Review 3567

Co-writer/director Andrei Tarkovsky’s scintillating and stunning 1962 first feature Ivan’s Childhood [Ivanovo Detstvo] is about the feisty and vengeful 12-year-old Russian boy Ivan Bondarev, played by Kolya Burlyayev [Nikolai Burlyayev], who works as a spy […]

Apr, 14

The Jungle Book **** (2016, Neel Sethi, voices of Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Walken, Idris Elba, Garry Shandling, Scarlett Johansson) – Movie Review

Little Neel Sethi is ideal as the man-cub Mowgli who flees the jungle after a death threat from the tiger Shere Khan. Guided by Ben Kingsley and Bill Murray provide the excellent key voices of Bagheera the panther and the bear […]

Apr, 13

The Match King *** (1932, Warren William, Lili Damita, Glenda Farrell, Juliette Compton, Harold Huber, Claire Dodd, John Wray) – Classic Movie Review 3566

Based on the true tale of the real career of Ivar Kreuger and a novelised version of his life by Einar Thorvaldson, directors Howard Bretherton and William Keighley’s little-known, antique 1932 drama is old-style film-making, […]

Apr, 13

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