Film Criticism

The Last Challenge, directed by Kim Jee-woon, an action-packed thriller script written by Andrew Knauer and performed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville, Rodrigo Santoro, Jaimie Alexander ,, Luis Guzmán, our Eduardo Noriega, Peter Stormare, Zach Gilford, Genesis Rodriguez and Harry Dean Stanton.

We continue to investigate the cinema that addresses the issue of education in its plot, and today we do it with 'The Mona Lisa smile', a film directed by Mike Newell in 2003, which starred Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin, Dominic West, and Marcia Gay Harden. The script ran from the hands of Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal.

David O. Russell, director and screenwriter of 'The Bright Side of Things' was based on the novel by Matthew Quick, and brought together a cast consisting of Bradley Cooper (Pat), Jennifer Lawrence (Tiffany), Robert De Niro ( Mr. Pat), Jacki Weaver (Dolores), Chris Tucker (Danny), Julia Stiles (Veronica), Shea Whigham (Jake) and John Ortiz (Ronnie), to introduce us to this common romantic comedy.

The film 'Hitchcock' by Sacha Gervasi has arrived in our rooms. In the film we find a cast consisting of Anthony Hopkins (Alfred Hitchcock), Helen Mirren (Alma Reville), Scarlett Johansson (Janet Leigh), Toni Collette (Peggy), Jessica Biel (Vera Miles), Danny Huston (Whitfield Cook), James D'Arcy (Anthony Perkins), Michael Stuhlbarg (Lew Wasserman), Michael Wincott (Ed Gein), Kurtwood Smith (Geoffrey Shurlock) and Richard Portnow (Barney Balaban), among others.

The winner of the Dallas Critics Awards, among other countless awards and nominations, 'Lincoln', premiered on January 18 in Spain and since then has topped our billboard. The film is directed by Steven Spielberg and has a script by Tony Kushner, John Logan and Paul Webb, inspired by the book “Team of rivals: The political genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Richard LaGravenese's 'Street Diaries' was performed in 2007 by Hilary Swank (Erin Gruwell), Patrick Dempsey (Scott Casey), Scott Glenn (Steve Gruwell), Imelda Staunton (Margaret Campbell) and April Lee Hernandez (Eva) . The script ran from the hand of Richard LaGravenese; based on the book "The freedom writers diary" by Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell.

'Django Unchained' is the title of the new film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The western stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Gogginsn, Dennis Christopher, Don Johnson, James Remar, James Russo, and Franco Nero, among others.

We kicked off the year with the scoop on the 'Movie 43' trailer, and this weekend we were finally able to enjoy this crazy comedy in our cinemas. The film, which has an exceptional cast, is made up of various gags in which an authentic shower of stars such as Emma Stone, Gerard Butler, Hugh Jackman, Elizabeth Banks, Chloë Grace Moretz, Kristen Bell, Anna Faris, Naomi appears. Watts, Kate Winslet, Uma Thurman, Halle Berry, Josh Duhamel, Richard Gere, Kate Bosworth, Chris Pratt, Jason Sudeikis, Kieran Culkin, Patrick Warburton, Christopher Mintz-Passe, Justin Long, Liev Schreiber, Johnny Knoxville, Terrence Howard, Aasif Mandvi, Leslie Bibb, and Seann William Scott.

Today we start a new series in which we will analyze the different film titles that have approached the world of education from the big screen. In this cycle, we will talk about recent titles such as 'The Professor (Detachment)', but we will also immerse ourselves in more classic titles, and precisely today we will start talking about 'The Miracle of Anna Sullivan', a film that will undoubtedly excite you a lot. The 1962 film is worth it, both for its technical data and for the message it gives off.

Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, Rebel Wilson, Adam Scott, James Marsden, Kyle Bornheimer, Hayes MacArthur and Ann Dowd, are the actresses and main actors of Leslye Headland's latest proposal, 'Bachelorette Party'.

Tom Cruise returns to fill our rooms to the delight of his fans with 'Jack Reacher', and again he does it with a thriller, his most frequented genre lately, and in which he fits perfectly. To do this, he has had some co-stars made up of: Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog, David Oyelowo, Rober Tuvall, Jai Courtney and Alexia Fast, among others.

Frank Coraci presented us in Spain on January 11 his new proposal, 'Heavyweight', in which he has once again immersed us in the comedy genre, with the following main cast: Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler, Joe Rogan, Greg Germann, Reggie Lee, and Bas Rutten.

'The Master', the long-awaited film that marks the return to the big screen of actor Joaquin Phoenix after his voluntary retirement. Phoenix is ​​joined by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Laura Dern.

'The daughter of my best friend' has counted in its interpretive cast in addition to the acclaimed Hugh Laurie, with Leighton Meester, Adam Brody, Allison Janney and Alia Shawkat, among others.

Gabriele Muccino's latest film, 'A Good Match', is starring Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dennis Quaid ...

Curtis Hanson and Michael Apted, directors of 'Chasing Mavericks' had good intentions, a good script, good media and good waves ... But they have not been able to get enough out of them so that we can say that they have obtained a good final product with this film.

With such a synopsis, anyone who likes family dramas and sports backgrounds has enough reasons to see Robert Lorenz's new film, but if we add to that the extraordinary cast that the director has counted on, the reasons are many more: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Scoot Eastwood and Robert Patrick, among many others, make up the artistic poster of 'Blow of Effect'.

'Los amos del barrio (The watch)' by Akiva Schaffer premiered in Spain, endowed with a cast with comedic actors such as Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Rosemarie DeWitt, Nicholas Braun or Billy Crudup

'The Twilight saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2' is already on most of the billboards in theaters in our country, and with it Bill Condon presents the outcome of his saga after four years of marketing and sequels. Thus, part of its cast, such as the protagonists Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson (Cosmopolis) and Taylor Lautner, will be able to dedicate themselves to other roles

The interpreters of 'In the mind of the murderer (Alex Cross)', are headed by Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Edward Burns, Jean Reno, John C. McGinley ...

'Vacation in Hell', whose original title is 'Get the Gringo' and was previously going to be titled 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation', premiered on October 26 on the Spanish billboard, after it was released in the United States He will "punish" Mel Gibson by launching this violent, bawdy and very funny thriller directly into the domestic market, which, based on a simple and well-resolved plot, guarantees thick and sly entertainment.

'Skyfall' is the last chapter of the Bond saga, directed by Sam Mendes and that immerses us once again in action cinema for more than two hours (143 minutes), with the interpretation of Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Bérénice Marlohe, the 'bad' Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw and Albert Finney, among others.

'Sinister', the new proposal by director Scott Derrickson premiered last weekend in Spain and the truth is that it left us nailed in the armchair. This film with a script by Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, has a correct technical plan that makes us spend a disturbing time throughout the length of the film, according to the horror genre, something is something.

In 'The Professor (Detachment)' we find Adrien Brody playing Henry Bathes, a teacher who has a real gift for connecting with students, a talent that Henry prefers to ignore. When working as a substitute teacher, he never stays long enough in a school to maintain an emotional relationship with his students or his classmates.

'The word thief' is the new bet by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, directors and screenwriters of this film distributed by DeAPlaneta, in which we embark on a journey that takes us from post-war Paris to the Modern-day New York to tell the story of Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper), a successful young writer who discovers the price he must pay for plagiarizing someone else's work when a mysterious old man (Jeremy Irons) confronts him claiming to be the true author of his novel and recounts the beautiful yet tragic memories that gave rise to the book.

'Ruby Sparks' is the new comedy film directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, which has in its cast Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan (who plays Ruby Sparks), Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Steve Coogan, Elliott Gould, Chris Messina and Alia Shawkat, among others. The script was written by Zoe Kazan himself, who plays Ruby Sparks in the film. Notable is the participation of Banderas who recently announced that he will be Picasso in Carlos Saura's new film

Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Kyle Chandler, Scoot McNairy, Chris Messina and Taylor Schilling, among others, make up the cast of 'Argo' the new film directed by Ben himself Affleck, whose script has been written by Chris Terrio, based on a chapter from "The Master of Disguise" (Antonio J. Mendez) and on the article "The great escape" (published by Joshuah Bearman in Wired magazine).

It is the year 2072, murders are strictly prohibited, so the targets are sent through a time machine to the past, to the year 2042, where there is a network of hitmen, loopers.

This weekend we attended another premiere, 'Frankenweenie', in this case with a script by John August, which has been based on a plot by Tim Burton and Leonard Ripps from Tim Burton's short film of the same name. And that supposes a wonderful return of the always original Tim Burton to animation, surrounding himself as always with a fantastic technical team to move us with his sinister stories and pay homage once again to the horror genre.

Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play Kay and Arnold, a happy married couple who have shared their lives for more than 30 years. But what from the outside looks like the perfect harmony and stability of an adult marriage, has become monotony and boredom for her. Kay misses the spark of the early days, passion, lust ... and decides to remedy it: he signs up for a sex therapy taught by a famous sexologist in a town called Hope Springs, which he will accompany, not entirely convinced , her husband Arnold.

The novelist Nicholas Jarecki makes his film debut with the direction and script of the film 'El Fraude', of which we highlight the great performance of Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon, who on this occasion are accompanied by Tim Roth and Laetitia Casta, among others , "The Fraud" is about how a successful businessman Robert Miller (Richard Gere), married to Ellen (Susan Sarandon), who is about to turn sixty years old seems to be the perfect portrait of American success in his professional and family life.

Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey and Matt Bomer, among others, are the main protagonists of 'Magic Mike', the new American proposal that brings presence to the romantic comedy genre at our box office with a script by Reid Carolin. The plot directed by Steven Soderbergh introduces us to Mike (Channing Tatum), an entrepreneur who spends his days chasing the American dream in every way possible: repairing the roofs of houses, washing cars or designing furniture in his apartment in Tampa Beach. But at night he becomes Magic Mike, the star of a male strip show

As we told you a few months ago, Oliver Stone puts aside the criticism of the world of economics and politics, to return to the genre of pure action, and it seems that the result has not gone badly if we take into account the ovations received at the San Sebastián Festival. For 131 minutes, Stone leaves the performance in the hands of Taylor Kitsch, Benicio del Toro, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, Salma Hayek, John Travolta and Emile Hirsch, among others, with a magnificent script by Shane Salerno and Don Winslow, who They have been based on the novel by Don Winslow.

In addition, Allen, who knows better than anyone the difficulties of the current box office, has known how to surround himself with a leading cast with all the necessary ingredients to attract the attention of the viewer, not in vain, he has had actors and actresses of the stature of Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penelope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page or Ricardo Scamarcio, among others.

'Trapped in Chernobyl', the new Bradley Parker, is a horror film that follows a group of six young people on vacation who, in search of new emotions, hire an "extreme" guide. Ignoring the warnings, he takes them to the city of Pripyat, where the nuclear reactor workers lived, but which is now a deserted city since the disaster, more than 25 years ago. However, after a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves in distress and discover that they are not alone.

With this approach from director Simon West, 'Contrarreloj' comes to the Spanish screens, whose trailer for the film we already left you here a few months ago. In the film, Cage shares a performance with Josh Lucas, Danny Huston, Malin Akerman and Sami Gayle, among others.

We already told you when we left you the trailer for the film, Andrew Dominik has directed one of the best films we have seen in recent weeks. After 'The murder of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford', the director now brings us a proposal that rides between humor and film noir. In addition to the excellence of the script, which Dominik himself has written from the novel by George V. Higgins, the director has managed to surround himself with an exceptional interpretive cast, including Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Scout McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn and Sam Shepard, among others.

In 'No Brakes', we immerse ourselves in the life of Wilee (Gordon-Levitt), who is a messenger from New York. Every day he must dodge speeding cars, crazed taxi drivers and eight million grumpy pedestrians, who are part of his everyday life, but he is the best of New York's agile and aggressive bike messengers. To be one you have to be of a special breed, with a mixture of equal parts skill and nutty, to ride a superlight bike, with no gears or brakes - risking becoming just another stain on the pavement every time you move between the road. city ​​traffic.

Ole Bornedal presents his new horror proposal, entitled 'The possession. Dawn of Evil, which stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, and Natasha Calis.

The film in question has nothing to do with the 1999 shark thriller. This is a title based on the play of the same name by Terence Rattigan, a twentieth century playwright, comes the adaptation by director Terence Davies, with actress Rachel Weisz and actors Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell at the helm. The film was announced for the 2011 San Sebastian Festival.

Since last Friday, September 7, the latest from Nicholas Stoller can be seen in Spain, the romantic comedy 'Eternally compromised'. Nicholas Stoller, and the male lead, actor Jason Segel, had previously worked together on the acclaimed 'Step of You' (2008), where Segel also acted as a screenwriter, as in this film.

Twenty years after the premiere of Sylvester Stallone's 'Dredd' on the big screen, comes the new version of the comic, which this time directed by Pete Travis and starring Karl Urban.

The idea of ​​'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is based on a novel by Seth Grahame-Smith and addresses the double life of the president, who in addition to his position as head of the United States government, was also a vampire hunter, motivated by revenge, since his mother was killed by vampires. The approach is not bad, but when it is put into practice we find a film that abuses gore, slow motion and visual effects, to such an extent that sometimes it is burdensome and not at all credible, like the fight in the middle of a stampede of horses, to name a few.

Ridley Scott's latest film, Prometheus, released on August 3, seems to have not convinced the critics. Neither the fantastic cast that it has managed to gather, led by Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace and Guy Pearce, nor having the prestigious Damon Lindelof (Lost) among the scriptwriters has been enough for a critic that gives the film an approved scrap.

Seth MacFarlane has succeeded, without a doubt the hooligan comedy 'Ted' has become a worldwide success. Much of the fault lies with the actor Mark Wahlberg, but perhaps the most important part is taken by that rude little bear who is easy to get fond of. And it is that the American director has managed to give another twist to the family comedy that gave him so many good results in titles such as Family Guy or Family Guy.

The film adaptation of the series "The Green Hornet" starring Gordon Jones and the legendary Bruce Lee is ...

The film «In times of witches», new film by the actor Nicolas Cage is a correct American Series B film, ...

"The Tourist" is a film that has been made to unite on screen two of the highest grossing actors ...

The new version of the classic "Gulliver's Travels" that was released this Christmas for actor Jack Black ...

The American comedy, is it a comedy ?, "A small change", starring Jennifer Aniston we have seen it a thousand and one times ...

The American comedy "Big Kids" is a total waste because in it we find some of the best actors ...

On August 6, the latest film by director M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense") will be released in Spain ...

Simply put, the movie "Predators", a continuation of the alien hunters from "Predator", could have remained in just one project ...

The American film «The Losers», adaptation to the cinema of the comic of the same name, a priori seemed that it would offer us to pass ...

I must admit that I was wrong because the movie "The Karate Kid" is a lot better than I thought. Yes…

The American comedy «Question of balls. (Mr. Woodcock) »and, I was so bored, that I have…

I have read several criticisms of the film "The Book of Eli", directed by the brothers Albert and Allen Hugues and ...

The film adaptation of the comic "Kick-ass" created a lot of excitement and expectation on the Internet and, after seeing it, I must ...

When the film "All Inclusive" was released in the USA it was a box office success but in Spain it did not achieve ...

The worldwide success of the Clash of the Titans remake can only be understood because Americans know how to sell their ...

The movie The Island of the Damned, from 2007, is the typical American movie where the only good guys are the Yankees….

If you've already passed your thirties and want to see a good comedy, I recommend that you go see the movie ...

The new film adaptation of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes was born with the intention of creating another saga that ...

No wonder the movie What Happened to the Morgans? there is failure in the USA because it is a very lazy comedy. The comedy…

The sleeper of the year in the USA, along with Hangover in Las Vegas, has been the movie The Blind Side that…

Last night they broadcast on the Factoría de Ficción channel the horror movie, to call it in some way, Freddy against Jason….

Oh my! It had been a long time since I saw a movie as bad as "Armored", one of the worst films of the year ...

Honestly, the movie "The ghosts of my ex-girlfriends" has pleasantly surprised me. I was expecting another romantic movie crap...

Maintaining all the essence of a short film in its adaptation to the feature length is an extremely difficult task. This will ...

After the first part had a more than acceptable box office around the world, it comes to us this week ...

I had read so many negative reviews about the Gamer movie that after seeing it, I even liked it and everything. Although,…

Next week the martial arts film Ninja Assassin, produced by the Wachowski brothers, will hit our screens ...

The 2004 American comedy Eurotrip, directed by Jeff Schaffer, enjoys good reviews on the Internet but, I must ...

The American film The Guide to the Gorge of 2007 had little luck at the US box office but in our ...

Director Robert Zemeckis is still obsessed with making movies with the technique of digital animation, that is, filling ...

This weekend the two premieres that will occupy almost all theaters in theaters in Spain will be Cuento ...

The movie Pandorum is the clear example that a well-crafted trailer can take many people to the movies ...

No wonder the blockbuster Enemigos Públicos, by director Michael Mann (Heat), about John Dillinger, one of the thieves ...

It is clear that Woody Allen is a master at creating good stories, like the one he shows in his latest film ...

When I saw the first preview of the movie Infectados, directed and written by the Pastor brothers, who are Spanish but have ...

The film Zombieland has managed to be No. 1 at the US box office thanks to the fact that it is a short film and ...

The movie Jennifer's Body, a "horror" comedy, has been selling for a long time on the Internet thanks to ...

The Science Fiction movie The Substitutes that premiered in our cinemas last Friday is an entertaining movie ...

If you ask me which are the best films of Quentin Tarantino's filmography as a film director, it is clear ...

The District 9 Science Fiction movie is one of the most original movies to ever come across our screens ...

That Stephen Sommers director of The Mummy and The Return of the Mummy is the director of the film of ...

The remake of the horror classic The Last House on the Left directed by Dennis Iliadis under the production of ...

Ok, I admit it. I was wrong when I said that Transformers 2 was cinema for sheep but the first part is ...

  The American film Cleaner was released last weekend in our country as if it were a product ...

It had been a long time since I saw a movie so bad that it caused me to want the movie to end early, ...

That the cinematic sequel to The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, has managed to keep the No. 1 for three consecutive weeks ...

Yesterday I saw the American comedy Animal Party (from 2002) about unversitarians. Well, actually, about a college boy who's seven ...

If a few weeks ago I told you how bad the years had been for the film Open until ...

The sequel to Night at the Museum is definitely a family comedy to hang out and little else. What's more,…

If the film Open at Dawn, from 1996, has gone down in the history of cinema, it is because of the sensual dance, ...

The brave Despereaux is an animated film, based on the literary success of Kate DiCamillo, which in large part ...

Among the films that I have on my to-do list, was "Tideland", one that I had completely forgotten ...

The Last Legion, directed by Doug Lefler, is such a lazy movie that it should have been released directly on video and…

Last night I saw the movie The Winner, from 2005, because I had read good reviews about it but I, particularly, ...

Jim Carrey's new comedy, Say yes, is one of the actor's comedy films that take advantage of ...

The film Ultimatum to Earth, a remake of the original, a landmark of Science Fiction, will have disappointed everyone ...

I thought that in Twilight I would find a somewhat original story after seeing that it has been a success of ...

The controversy between the director of Babylon AD, Mathieu Kassotviz, and its producers, Fox, gave him ...

The death race, which premiered in Spain last October 3 without pain or glory, is a ...