Tag Archives: Antonio Banderas

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Released in 2003, Once Upon a Time is the third and — hopefully — final film in Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi series of films, about a Mexican musician who goes on a violent rampage of revenge. I say hopefully final, … Continue reading

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Shrek the Halls

I’ll admit that I’m probably not the audience Dreamworks was looking for when they made Shrek the Halls. I’m not a kid, and I don’t have kids of my own. And I was growing tired of the Shrek film franchise … Continue reading

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Scared Shrekless

Halloween specials. In some ways, they felt like a thing of the past to me for a while. Maybe it’s just nostalgia speaking, but I remember there being a lot of them that aired in my youth. It’s the Great … Continue reading

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Desperado

In 1992, Robert Rodriguez made his first feature film on a microscopic budget, El Mariachi. Three years later, Columbia Pictures gave him a still modest but considerably larger budget to continue the story of El Mariachi in Desperado. The differences … Continue reading

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