Exorcismus

Rite on!

Horror
Rod Lott
Spain’s English-language indie “Exorcismus” is what I wanted America’s big-budget “The Rite” to be: worth watching.

 

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

No bull

Get tempted by the flavors of Spain at this unique, enticing Bricktown restaurant.

HOOPS! (There it isn't)

CFN
Gazette staff
The NBA’s first work stoppage since 1998 isn’t stopping a slew of headlines raining down from the Oklahoma City Thunder.

 

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

The Last Circus

Send in the clowns.

Comedy
Rod Lott
Álex de la Iglesia, Spain's clown prince of cinema, making a movie about warring clowns? It's such a natural, I'm surprised he hadn't done it before now.

 

Monday, October 10, 2011

The Hidden Face

Too bad the marketing doesn’t also hide the surprise.

Thriller
Rod Lott
When Adrián (Quim Gutiérrez) left Spain for a one-year conducting gig with the Bogotá Philharmonic, he took his adoring girlfriend, Belen, with him. But one day, he comes home to a video message of her announcing she's leaving him, and not to come looking for her. It's as enigmatic as it is out of left field.

 

Monday, April 9, 2012

Extraterrestrial

A close encounter of the awkward kind.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
One of the hotter tickets at last fall's Fantastic Fest was Extraterrestrial. I couldn't get in. I understood why at the time: It's the new film from Timecrimes director Nacho Vigalondo! Now that I've seen it, I wonder how many who did get in wish they hadn't. It's a huge disappointment.

 

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Penumbra

Unlike the filmmakers’ previous thriller, you won’t break a ‘Sweat.’

Thriller
Rod Lott
Penumbra is Spanish for "partly in the shadows," which is how we first find the fourth-floor apartment that Margarita Sanchez (Cristina Brondo, Dario Argento's Do You Like Hitchcock?) shows to Jorge Kepler (Berta Muñiz), representative for a prospective renter willing to pay four times the going rate, and for a full year in advance.

 

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Juan of the Dead

Experience the Cuban gristle crisis.

Comedy
Rod Lott
Don't call them "zombies" — call them "dissidents." That's one of a few well-aimed bits of political satire that populate the Spanish-language romp Juan of the Dead, but worry not: They're used sparingly and none come heavy-handed — a Castro polemic, this isn't.

 

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Ten Thousand More Ways to Die: Spaghetti Western Collection

Saddle up ... for, oh, about 18 hours.

Western
Rod Lott
Anyone who believes public-domain DVD box sets don't contain any good movies, take note: You're dead wrong.

 

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

'E.CO' friendly

Art with a conscience is the focus of a new international photography exhibit at [Artspace] at Untitled.

Visual Arts
Louis Fowler
E.CO
through Jan. 5, 2013
[Artspace] at Untitled
1 N.E. Third
artspaceatuntitled.org
815-9995
free

 

Wednesday, October 31, 2012