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Open Your Eyes [Abre Los Ojos] **** (1997, Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera) – Classic Movie Review 1818

Co-writer/director Alejandro Amenábar’s smart and polished 1997 Spanish romantic mystery drama was remade as Vanilla Sky by Cameron Crowe in 2001 with Tom Cruise and Penélope Cruz repeating the role she plays here. A rich, handsome womanising […]

Nov, 08

Blow *** (2001, Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ray Liotta, Rachel Griffiths, Franka Potente, Paul Reubens) – Classic Film Review 1193

Johnny Depp invariably boldly goes where few other stars would dream of, and usually it pays off handsomely. But this time back in 2001 he comes a bit of a cropper in this supposedly true, […]

May, 09

All the Pretty Horses *** (2000, Matt Damon, Penélope Cruz, Henry Thomas, Sam Shepard, Robert Patrick, Lucas Black, Bruce Dern) – Classic Movie Review 898

Billy Bob Thornton’s 2000 Western film All the Pretty Horses is astonishingly high, wide and handsome, adapting Cormac McCarthy’s highly regarded 1992 novel. Matt Damon and Henry Thomas play Texan misfit cowboys who travel to […]

Mar, 11

Vanilla Sky *** (2001, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell) – Classic Movie Review 613

Tom Cruise’s fans are in for a bit of a shock. He’s disfigured and masked for much of this arty, romantic 2001 mystery movie that’s just as posh and smart but even duller than his […]

Jan, 02

The Counsellor ** (2013, Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt, Bruno Ganz, Rosie Perez, Rubén Blades, Goran Visnjic, Édgar Ramírez) – Movie Review

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 […]

Nov, 12

Vicky Cristina Barcelona **** (2008, Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem) – Classic Movie Review 1442

‘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 […]

Sep, 19

I’m So Excited! [Los amantes pasajeros] *** (2013, Javier Cámara, Pepa Charro, Cecilia Roth, Raúl Arévalo, Paz Vega, Blanca Suárez, Guillermo Toledo) – Movie Review

It’s another Pedro Almodóvar film, 33 years on from his first Pepi, Lucy, Bom in 1980. The long-ago enfant terrible of Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown […]

Jun, 17

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