Pedro Almodovar

Pedro Almodovar

Date of Birth

1949-09-25

Place of Birth

Calzada de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Known for

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Madonna: Truth or Dare, Matador

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Movie Reviews

Bitter Christmas (Cannes) Review: Almodóvar’s latest finds the auteur in a self-lacerating mood

Posted 2 weeks ago

While it takes awhile to get there, Bitter Christmas finds Almodóvar refreshingly critical of his own late career.

Movie Reviews

The Room Next Door Review: Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore are long-lost friends in Pedro Almodovar’s engrossing drama

Posted 1 year ago

Two great actors anchor the Spanish filmmaker's first English language feature film about death and friendship.

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Movie Trailers

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton star in the artsy trailer for Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door

Posted 2 years ago

The film starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, and John Turturro is highly anticipated ahead of its premieres at the Venice, Toronto, and New York Film Festivals.

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Strange Way of Life: Trailer for the Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke western short from Pedro Almodóvar rides its way online

Posted 3 years ago

The first trailer for the thirty-minute western short from Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar displays straight-faced campy classic trailer editing.

Review: Bad Education

Posted 6 years ago

Previously reviewed as part of JoBlo.com's TIFF 2019 coverage. PLOT: A high school superintendent (Hugh Jackman) and his underlings use their unlimited access to school funds to finance their high-flying lifestyles, but when one of them makes a mistake, the...

Top 10 Medical Horror Flicks!

Posted 11 years ago

The medical horror film genre has a host of subsets, doesn’t it?! You have the demented doctor variety, the viral outbreak type, the biological mutation kind, the insane asylum ilk, and of course – as this week’s release of THE...

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Top 10 Best Sylvester Stallone Movies Ranked

Posted 2 days ago

From Rocky to Rambo, discover the 10 best Sylvester Stallone movies and the performances that made him a Hollywood icon

Explore our picks for the 10 greatest science fiction masterpieces ever made, from Blade Runner and 2001 to Children of Men and Moon

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Top 10 Greatest Science Fiction Masterpieces of All Time

Posted 14 hours ago

Explore our picks for the 10 greatest science fiction masterpieces ever made, from Blade Runner and 2001 to Children of Men and Moon

A full trailer has been released for director Eli Roth's new horror movie, Ice Cream Man, coming to theatres in August

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Ice Cream Man trailer: Eli Roth warns to watch out for children this August

Posted 22 hours ago

A full trailer has been released for director Eli Roth's new horror movie, Ice Cream Man, coming to theatres in August

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Quentin Tarantino slams modern Hollywood, but has nothing but praise for Joe Carnahan’s The Rip

Posted 12 hours ago

Quentin Tarantino hasn't been a fan of what Hollywood has had to offer over the last few years, but Joe Carnahan's The Rip is the exception.

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By Any Means gets a trailer: Mark Wahlberg plays a real-life mafia hitman

Posted 21 hours ago

Mark Wahlberg plays real-life mafia hitman Gregory Scarpa in By Any Means, and some first look images from the crime thriller have dropped.

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The Top 5 Action Movie Match-Ups of the 90s

Posted 3 weeks ago

It's star vs star. We rank those movies that pit name actors against each other in devilishly fun, heated rivalries.

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Five action stars who deserved bigger movies

Posted 1 month ago

In a world of Schwarzeneggers, Stallones and Van Dammes, there are more stars that could have graced us with big action classics.

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The Top 10 Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Games Ranked

Posted 1 week ago

With video games on the rise in Hollywood, we decided to look back on old school systems and rank the Top 10 Games of the NES era!

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Superman Actors Ranked: Which Actors Were the Best At Playing The Man of Steel?

Posted 3 weeks ago

We rank all of the Superman actors from worst to best!

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The Top 10 Super Nintendo (SNES) Games Ranked

Posted 4 weeks ago

We're back with a bold list that ranks the Top 10 Super Nintendo games, from beat 'em ups to platformers, Metroidvanias, and more!

Discover why Terminator 2: Judgment Day was decades ahead of its time, from groundbreaking VFX to its eerily relevant AI themes

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Why Terminator 2: Judgment Day Still Feels Ahead of Its Time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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