Penelope Cruz

Top Ten Food & Sex Scenes in the Movies

College Football Preview, Scarlett Johansson Edition

Truth or Fantasy

The Spanish Open Your Eyes toys with reality

Rich Man, Pork Man

The class struggle and menage a six of Jamon Jamon are plenty salty, but there's not enough meat on these bones

Top Ten Food & Sex Scenes in the Movies

In anticipation of Valentine's Day, we now repost this list from our archives. Dinner and a movie at home can be very romantic - especially with the right food and the right flick. Here's a list of the Top Ten Food & Sex Scenes in the Movies to consider while planning your "quiet" evening at home. ... More >>

Hi-Lo Ho-Hum

A fine Western love story gets reduced into a Mild Bunch

Despite its Oscar,

Fernando Trueba's new film isn't a prizewinner

No Woman-ly Charms

South American filmmakers suffer from a terminal case of the cutes

Mighty Aphrodites in Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces — and some other stuff — in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest

Hold Your Horses

Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces — and some other stuff — in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest

The Man Who Loved Women

Gynocentric director returns with a lighthearted ghost story

Mexican Combo Plate

Billy Bob's adaptation of Pretty Horses mixes together too many ingredients, all of them undercooked

Tortilla Flat

Nacho's funnier than Napoleon, which isn't sayin' much

Fortunate Son

Sahara has no reason to exist, until you see who made it

Living Dead Girl

A mean ghost kid kicks Halle Berry's ass in Gothika

Eyes Half Open

Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

Greek Tragedy

When it comes to Captain Corelli, all's fair (as in mediocre) in love and war

Coke and a Smile

Ambitious Blow explores the highs and lows of the '70s cocaine trade

Screwball Drama

Almodovar leans toward the dark side in this often funny meditation on the bond of all women

Twice Is Nice

A light romantic comedy explores second chances

Five Ways To Sex Up Your Thanksgiving

Is there a less sexy holiday than Thanksgiving? Sure, Memorial Day can be a downer, what with all the remembering the heroic dearly departed. And Columbus Day gets into all that stuff about Europeans spreading STDs like a rogue fraternity with a big-time roofie pipeline.But Thanksgiving? Really not ... More >>

Volver

It’s time to cut those apron strings, Penélope

Blind Faith

Pedro Almodóvar still believes in Pedro Almodóvar.

Director's Block

Fantasy meets harsh reality as Rob Marshall takes on a Fellini classic.

We Get The Celebrity Offspring We Deserve

​You always want to be careful when writing about children. Not only because they're the future, as Whitney Houston and Bill Hicks once told us, but because it isn't exactly sporting to use your big person vocabulary and rhetorical arsenal to tee off on someone who hasn't yet been beaten into ... More >>

Captain Jack Won't Die

Searching for eternal life in the interminable Pirates of the Caribbean.