Bad Education with Gael García Bernal. Bad Education (2004) movie review: One of Pedro Almodóvar’s finest, most complex efforts, this “gay film noir” provides Gael García Bernal with what’s probably…
The Sea Inside movie review: One of the year’s biggest hits in Spain and the winner of 14 Goya Awards, Alejandro Amenábar’s capably assembled, generally well-acted, but overly sentimental euthanasia…
Priest sex movie Sins: Catholic radicals are outraged by Vinod Pande’s drama in which a priest – like Gael García Bernal in another “priest sex movie,” The Crime of Father…
Nastri d’Argento: Gianni Amelio’s father-son drama The Keys to the House topped two categories: Best Director (the top prize; there’s no Best Film) and Best Cinematography (Luca Bigazzi, also for…
Is Hollywood anti-Christian? Despite far-right American Christians’ hand-wringing about the awards season chances of The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s controversial, ultra-violent Christian drama has been shortlisted by various…
Based on real-life events, Alejandro Amenábar’s pro-euthanasia drama and the Goya Awards’ record-breaker The Sea Inside revolves around a tetraplegic man’s fight to end his own life. The box office…
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s World War I-set French drama A Very Long Engagement would have been one of the Oscars’ top Best Foreign Language Film contenders – had it been eligible. But…
Culture clash movies have dominated this year’s socially conscious European Film Awards: Fatih Akin’s German-Turkish drama Head-On was named Best European Film, while euthanasia and abortion dramas topped the acting…
The Perfect Crime movie review: In Álex de la Iglesia’s black comedy, Guillermo Toledo resorts to desperate measures to rid himself of the blackmailing, sexually insatiable chains of matrimony, as…
Gay Republicans: How can a(n even moderately) sane person be both openly gay and a member of the United States’ openly anti-gay Republican party? Wash Westmoreland’s Gay Republicans attempts to…
Entries from 49 countries are in contention for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Yet arcane rules have prevented two well-received non-English-language features starring Gael García Bernal from being even…
Gael García Bernal & Pedro Almodóvar Bad Education quotes: The Mexican actor (Y Tu Mamá También) reveals his “inner transvestite” while the Spanish filmmaker (All About My Mother) takes on…