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The Other Pedophilia Flicknew
Spain's reigning cinematic bad boy, Pedro Almodóvar, backed Lucrecia Martel's film The Holy Girl. The Argentine director had no idea her coming-of-age story would be released at the same time as Almodóvar's similarly themed Bad Education.
Houston Press |
Brett Sokol |
02-09-2005 |
Movies
Indie Gothic Goes Southnew
This film enjoys a setting drenched in signification (New Orleans), accomplished photography and several rich personalities. But it never gels. Primarily, it can't rise above two major weaknesses: a plangent, plaintive script and the inadequacies of John Travolta.
Houston Press |
Melissa Levine |
01-25-2005 |
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Not Rocknenew
True to form, Samuel L. Jackson presents his Don't Screw With Me credentials once again playing Coach Carter. This time, though, he does it for the betterment of humankind.
Houston Press |
Bill Gallo |
01-18-2005 |
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Den of Iniquitynew
This delightful Spanish drama is worth seeing for its calm, apt depiction of its principal characters, a gay "bearish" uncle and the nephew he parents. An opening scene of sex between men has been bowdlerized from the American print.
Houston Press |
Melissa Levine |
01-03-2005 |
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Stuntman Turns to Roach Wranglingnew
Most people try to get rid of roaches, but stuntman Alan Hutton welcomes them. The actor, stuntman, fight choreographer, pyrotechnician, historical adviser and weapons master has to be a jack-of-all-trades, and he's even wrangled roaches and delivered them to filmmakers.
Houston Press |
Michael Serazio |
01-03-2005 |
Movies
Brothers in Armsnew
This is the kind of big-screen opus that Michael Bay only wishes Pearl Harbor could have been. Foreign films often feature intellectual alternatives to homegrown cinema, but rare is the foreign blockbuster that can go toe-to-toe with the big American studio action franchise flicks and clobber them on their own terms.
Houston Press |
Luke Y. Thompson |
09-28-2004 |
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