Almodóvar’s Noir: It’s All About Gael

Gael García Bernal may be Mexico’s greatest export since Dolores Del Rio. Unquestionably, he’s the prettiest. Y Tu Mamá También, Amores Perros, The Crime of Father Amaro and The Motorcycle Diaries made him as popular as margarita mix, but his sexy, brooding hothouse boyishness has never been as fully explored (and exploited) as it is Read More

Joni Mitchell Does a Killer Billie Holliday

The hills are alive with the sounds of … new CD’s! Broadway is dead, and except for the newly mastered, digitally enhanced, spanking fresh re-release print of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 masterpiece Rear Window , the movies that are opening now should never have opened at all. Music is the only thing that is getting me Read More