Category: Spanish Language
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Red Queen (Reina Roja), a Spanish thriller
Red Queen (Reina Roja) is a Spanish series that bills itself as a thriller, although it contained many fantasy elements and frequently strained my ability to suspend disbelief. It’s based on a very popular Spanish novel by Juan Gómez-Jurado. The series has 7 episodes and ends on a note that suggests more seasons with this…
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Norma, who finds herself in mid-life
Norma comes from Argentina. It’s a charming drama about how Norma transforms herself in mid-life. The life she was leading is stifling. She can’t breathe, she’s prone to panic attacks, she can’t sleep. She needs a change and doesn’t know it. When she realizes that things need to be different she makes huge changes that…
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Three Days of Christmas, Spanish family drama set at Christmas
Three Days of Christmas (Días de Navidad) tells a soapy melodrama about a family with lots of secrets. The story is told in 3 episodes set at Christmas time, each episode years apart. It’s a family saga, but shortened to three snippets of their lives.
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Noise (Ruido), a scream of agony
Noise (Ruido) isn’t so much a movie as an emotion, a cry of agony and horror for the lost and disappeared. It’s set in Mexico, but it could be true of any country where the government looks away while money sets the rules and authoritarian regimes terrorize ordinary citizens.
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Review: Who is Erin Carter? An action packed thriller
Who is Erin Carter? has action scenes galore, a butt-kicking woman lead, and a couple of women directors. Sounds perfect, but it was merely average or slightly above for the genre. It had its good points. One was the setting in Spain which was gorgeous. The other was the performance by Evin Ahmad in the…
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Review: The Lincoln Lawyer, season 2
The Lincoln Lawyer takes on a new case in season 2. Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as defense attorney Mickey Haller knows “LA is a great big freeway” and works in the back seat of one of his Lincolns on many days. His style as a defense attorney is to use clever tricks and ploys to win a…
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God’s Crooked Lines (Los renglones torcidos de Dios)
God’s Crooked Lines (Los renglones torcidos de Dios), a psycholgical thriller from Spain, stars the always excellent Bárbara Lennie as a woman who enters a mental hospital undercover to investigate a murder.
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The Valet: comedic look at fame and class
The Valet, a remake of a French comedy, is billed as a romcom. It has plenty of humor but not much romance. It’s more a look at topics like fame and riches vs. family and honest living.
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Rare Objects, exploring the broken
Rare Objects, a new film written, directed, and produced by Katie Holmes, explores the idea that people become more beautiful when they are broken and heal, even with scars still showing.