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Pedro Pascal’s go-to-Starbucks order is making our heads spin

A fan of The Last Of Us posted a TikTok video featuring actor Pedro Pascal's very intense Starbucks order and the Internet can't stop talking about it

Woman & Home

Streaming: the best films about motherhood

This Mother’s Day weekend, let’s celebrate self-sacrificing, feuding, exhausted, loving screen mums, from Stella Dallas to Lady Bird, Mommie Dearest to 20th Century Women

The Guardian - UK

‘Chicago’ shouldn’t have won best picture in 2003. Here’s what should have

LOS ANGELES — There’s a case to be made that Oscars should be awarded not a few months but a few years after the movies are released. Maybe even 20 years, so as to weed out the overpraised clunkers, elevate the overlooked gems and ensure that the winners truly stand…

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Carolina A. Miranda: RIP 'Los Espookys,' illicit lovechild of Pedro Almodóvar and 'Scooby-Doo'

Occasionally there comes along a cultural artifact so peculiar that adequate vocabulary does not yet exist to describe it. That was certainly the case with HBO's "Los Espookys," a program whose narratives so effectively eschewed Hollywood convention that even its authors had a tough time coming up with an elevator…

Los Angeles Times

Almodóvar pulls out of first English-language feature film

Oscar-winning filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar is withdrawing from his first English-language feature, "A Manual for Cleaning Women” produced by and starring Cate Blanchett

The Independent UK

Official Competition: Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz satirise the film industry as actor and director trying to make a movie

Official Competition pits an elitist thespian against a playboy movie star as they work together on a Spanish melodrama directed by an eccentric auteur.

ABC News

Why 'Official Competition' reunited Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz

They are among the most internationally recognizable Spanish actors of recent times.

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The best films of 2022 so far

Tilda Swinton aces Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy fable, director Clio Barnard’s forbidden affair and Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl rank in the pick of this year’s films

The Guardian - UK

Penélope Cruz’s 20 best films – ranked!

On her 48th birthday, we look through the work of the charismatic Spanish film star, who was Oscar nominated this year for Parallel Mothers

The Guardian - UK

Pedro Almodóvar on Will Smith at the Oscars: ‘The devil, in fact, doesn’t exist’

The Spanish director’s Oscars diary relays five hours at the ‘freezing’ Dolby theatre and disparages Denzel Washington’s advice to Smith

The Guardian - UK

Whoever wins this year’s music Oscar, Hans Zimmer remains the most influential composer working in Hollywood today

As important to films as acting, writing, and design, music can instantly create a realistic or fantastic world, guide emotions and enhance storytelling. Yet the annual Academy Award nominations for best original score are one of the few times film music gets a look in with the general public.

The Conversation

Penélope Cruz: "I decide with my heart"

The "Parallel Mothers" star spoke to Salon about her fourth Oscar nod and the scene she was "terrified" to shoot

Salon

BBC The Graham Norton Show: Penelope Cruz 'in tears' filming for Pedro Almodóvar's new movie 'Parallel Mothers'

The film follows the tale of two mothers whose babies were switched at birth

Bristol Post

Parallel Mothers review: naughty and knotty, it ranks alongside Almodóvar’s best work

Penelope Cruz’s performance underpins everything in the latest intoxicating film from Almodóvar

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The Independent UK

Parallel Mothers review: A complex melodrama that brings new depth to Pedro Almodóvar’s fearless women

A little of the Spanish filmmaker’s transgressiveness may be gone, but it’s left room instead for a more deeply rooted fervour

The Guardian - UK

Parallel Mothers review – Almodóvar delivers an emotional bundle of joy

Pedro Almodóvar’s poetic conviction and creative fluidity flow through this moving baby-swap drama about two single mothers and buried secrets from the Spanish civil war

ABC News

Parallel Mothers re-teams Penélope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar for film about motherhood and the Spanish Civil War

The star and director reunite for their eighth film together, for a film which won Cruz Best Actress at Venice film festival and is likely to earn her an Oscar nomination.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on remembering the Spanish civil war: the work must go on

Editorial: Pedro Almodóvar’s new film and a planned national museum both speak to the need to settle accounts with the past

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The New Daily

Almodovar’s engaging film Parallel Mothers once again puts women at its heart

The relationship between two women is at the heart of Pedro Almodóvar’s engaging new film, which also reckons with a dark period in his country’s history.

The Guardian - UK

Rossy de Palma: ‘Almodóvar always leaves space for a little bit of life to come in’

The Spanish actor on 35 years working with Pedro Almodóvar, the joy of her 80s pop band, and facing up to her country’s past

The Guardian - UK

Pedro Almodóvar on Spain’s tragic past: ‘You can’t ask people to forget’

With his new film Parallel Mothers, the director dials down the camp to address the shadow of fascism hanging over his homeland

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