Antonio Banderas

Pain and Glory

Academy Award winning filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar has a divisive range of films that include an Oscar-nominated performance from Penelope Cruz in “Volver”, to airplane orgies in “I’m So Excited“. His latest “Pain and Glory” premiered at Cannes earlier this year to rave reviews and awards buzz, especially for frequent collaborator Antonio Banderas. Almodóvar turns the

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Gun Shy

Simon West is a bad director. In fact, I bet the only film anyone dares defend him on is Con Air (his first) and that’s even a weak argument. His credits include movies you have forgotten about like teen horror thriller When a Stranger Calls, Nicholas Cage’s direct-to-dvd Stolen, and two Jason Statham action flicks

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The 33

     In many ways The 33 is a more powerful true story than IMAX seat gripper Everest. If the humanity and emotion gets somewhat lost in Baltasar Kormákur brilliant technical filmmaking on Everest, director Patricia Riggen understands that getting to know the 33 trapped Chilean miners is the entire story here.

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Spongebob Squarepants: Sponge Out of Water

New adventures and dangers await SpongeBob SquarePants in this 2015 3-D version, the first being in 2004. It hinges on a magical book that a scallywag pirate Burger-Beard (Banderas) steals to rewrite stories with new endings that he devises. Meanwhile, back at Krabby Patty, covetous Plankton (Mr. Lawrence) is trying desperately to steal the secret

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