Author: Mark Saldana

Movie Trailer: NOCTURNAL ANIMALS

Source: Focus Features Even the most beautiful life can’t hide your darkest secret.  The official trailer has arrived for Focus Features’ NOCTURNAL ANIMALS. Starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, director Tom Ford’s haunting romantic thriller opens in select theaters on November 18th and expands to theaters nationwide December 9th.

Movie Trailer: ARRIVAL

Source: Paramount Pictures Watch the trailer for the film critics are calling the “must-see” scifi movie of 2016. Arrival is coming to theatres November 11, 2016. When mysterious spacecrafts touch down across the globe, an elite team is brought together to investigate. Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker Director: Denis Villeneuve

Spanish Review: JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK

Por Liz Lopez Rating: B- Tom Cruise Protagoniza en la cinta secuela “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” El largometraje nuevo, “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back”, es adaptada del libro por el autor Lee Child de mismo nombre y el guion fue escrito por el director,  Edward Zwick (“The Last Samurai”), en colaboración con Richard Wenk… Continue reading Spanish Review: JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK

Review and Interview: EL JEREMIAS

Child Star Martin Castro from “El Jeremías” Shares His Experience By Liz Lopez Rating: A Last year, the Austin Film Festival (AFF) had a Stories from Abroad category and they featured the Spanish language film from Mexico, “El Jeremías.” Written by Ana Sofía Clerici and directed by Anwar Safa, this 99 minute family comedy/drama went… Continue reading Review and Interview: EL JEREMIAS

Review: OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL

(L to R) ANNALISE BASSO as Lina and ELIZABETH REASER as Alice, her mother, in "Ouija: Origin of Evil." Inviting audiences again into the lore of the spirit board, the supernatural thriller tells a terrifying new tale as the follow-up to 2014’s sleeper hit that opened at No. 1. In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) After disliking the first installment of this young franchise, I found it rather difficult not to go into this prequel with a negative attitude.  Still, I did my best to check my attitude at the door and view this film with an open mind.  Thankfully, this… Continue reading Review: OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL

Spanish Review and Interview: LA LEYENDA DEL CHUPACABRAS

Película de México, La Leyenda del Chupacrabras, se estrena en cines de los Estado Unidos Por Liz López Rating: B El director Alberto “Chino” Rodríguez ha dirigido episodios de “El Chavo”, La Leyenda de la Llorona (2011), La Leyenda de las Momias de Guanajuato (2014) y ahora, La Leyenda del Chupacrabras del presente año es la primera película animada de la serie animada… Continue reading Spanish Review and Interview: LA LEYENDA DEL CHUPACABRAS

Austin Film Festival 2016 Review and Interview: BRAVE NEW JERSEY

By Liz Lopez Rating: B+ The 1938 night the radio broadcast, “War of the Worlds,” by Orson Wells has been talked about for generations. That is the night that entertainment turned out to be an unforgettable night by many listeners, for some believed what they heard and thought they would die that evening when the… Continue reading Austin Film Festival 2016 Review and Interview: BRAVE NEW JERSEY

Spanish Review: DENIAL

By Liz López Rating: B+ Si le gustan las series televisivas o películas dramáticas, hay un nuevo largometraje basado en algo verídico que sucedió en la década 1990. Una profesora de historia en la Universidad Emory en el estado de Atlanta (Estados Unidos), Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) escribió un libro en 1993, Denying the Holocaust:… Continue reading Spanish Review: DENIAL

Review: THE ACCOUNTANT

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff, the titular accountant who has some dark secrets and illegal dealings.  Wolff may work as an average accountant as a cover, but he makes his fortune legitimizing numbers for criminal organizations.  Writter Bill Dubuque and director Gavin O’Connor (Warrior) serve up… Continue reading Review: THE ACCOUNTANT

Review: DENIAL

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Based on Deborah E. Lipstadt’s book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, Denial recounts the events surrounding the British lawsuit between author David Irving and Lipstadt, who, in another one of her books, labeled Irving as a Holocaust denier and discredited… Continue reading Review: DENIAL