I’m So Excited
(Los amantes pasajeros)
Bumpy Ride
Official Website | Trailers & Mo 
R | 90 min

YESSSSSSSSS, another Pedro Almodóvar movie!!!!!  Wouldn’t miss it for the world, especially since Almodó has made some of my moist flavorite movies since the inception of this website.  In that time, we’ve been royally treated to Bad Education, Volver, Broken Embraces, and a movie still giving me the heeeebie jeeeeebies two years later - The Skin I Live In.  He can’t miss, right?  Er, um, uh, uh, uh, apparently he can.  NOOOOO!!!  His sex, drugs and rocky & rolly plane dramedy I’m So Excited is about as exciting as going through customs, and is about as straight and narrow as taking a box of puzzle pieces and throwing them into a second box of puzzle pieces, throwing a feather boa around them, and then giving them the dirtiest, sloppiest blow job.  Er, um, what?  Exactly.  Can’t make heads or tailwinds of what this movie’s suppose to be, but what it isn’t is an Almodóvar winner.  It’s a dud (pains me to say), but still a well spirited one.  If only the movie was 90 minutes of Javier Cámara, Raúl Arévalo & Carlos Areces doing this.  But it’s not.  If only the movie was 90 minutes of Blanca Suárez showering.  Alas, it is also not that.  DRATS

 

Verdictgo:  Sum Merit But No Stinkin Badges

don’t get too Excited, currently playing in limited release

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

The Skin I Live In
(La Piel que Habito)
Arts & Grafts
Official Website | Trailers & Mo
R | 117 min

WARNING WARNING WARNING – THE SKIN I LIVE IN IS AMAZING, BUT DISGUSTING, BRILLIANT, BUT TWISTED, SEXY, BUT REVOLTING, and slain and pimple A MUSS MUSS MUSS SEE, but it may make yer skin crawl right off yer body

Thank you Pedro Almodóvar, for being.  We keep forgetting (SOMEHOW!!!) that he is without question (in our minds), the best director alive.  Yes, even more so than Finchdog.  If one of Pedro’s films is playing in a theater, it is automatic for the people that you peoples should see it.  99999reals

We don’t even want to tell you a single detail of Skin‘s plot, not to ruin any of the fun, but not to ruin any of the agony.  EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!  Lets juss say it’s Eyes Without A Face meets Vertigo meets Frankenstein meets amazingness on a half-shell.  Isn’t that enuff info to go on?  Well how bout hactually enjoying (if you can call this movie enjoyable) a rare Antonio Banderas performance in his native tongue (juss like seeing Penélope Cruz in Spanish >  Penélope Cruz in English).  Or yet another glorious eggcuse to ogle all over the muy bontia Elena Anaya, who is rapidly climbing up our current mos hotness actress chart… even if you might be repulsed by the sight of her by the time the credits roll (NO SPOILERS!!!!).  You need no eggcuses to see this people.  This is an Almodóvar pelicula we’re talking bout!!

Remember kids, anything with the word ‘skin’ in it is probably the ultimate shiz, like Skins or Skin or Mysterious Skin or The Redskins or Tony Skinn or fried chicken skin from Popeyes!!!!!! So, LIVE THRU THIS!!!  IT’S SKIN DEEP!!!

Queer Eye For The Straight Guy: Almodóvar may be at his most genius when it comes to casting über-calor chicas with big bright eyes.  he introduced us to the love of our life, Leonor Watling, employed the aforementioned hotress Elena Anaya, and now has tossed this newbie beauty in front of our ojos…

Blanca Suárez

bless you Almodó!!!!!!!!!!

Verdictgo: BREAST IN SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Live in this Skin this Friday in NY & LA, and elsewhere elsewhen

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…