May is over, and we’re now into the second month of the 2013 summer movie season. More to the point, this means that the release of Man of Steel is less than two weeks away, and I couldn’t be more excited. But looking beyond the summer, this week’s Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at the first teaser for one of my most anticipated films of the fall, Robert Rodriguez’s Ma...[Read More]
A startling and unpredictable foray into body horror and gender politics from Spanish film icon Pedro Almodóvar, The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) is a technically flawless, emotionally distant thriller concerning a widowed doctor’s imprisonment and plastic surgical experiments on a young woman gradually being made to resemble his deceased wife with the aid of synthetic skin grafts. Antonio ...[Read More]
If there was to be any joy found in the entire Shrek series, it was Puss in Boots. While the movies declined precipitously in quality with each entry in the series, his presence was always welcome. Call it good writing, call it blind luck, call it an alignment of the stars, but somehow everything about the character, who joined the cast in the second movie, just felt right. He was adventurous, cha...[Read More]