Benito Pocino Movies
- 2008
Three guys who've devoted their lives to doing nothing discover it's not as easy as it used to be in this independent comedy from Spain. Grabi (Ivan Massague), Nandi (Dario Paso) and Roberto Carlos (Juanfra Juarez) are three thirty-something layabouts who still live with their parents, avoid gainful employment and devote their days to drinking beer and sharing whatever thoughts they have with one another. Robert Carlos is engaged in a lackadaisical romance with shop manager Mercedes (Mercedes Hoyos) until he meets the prettier but moody Sunci (Pilar Crespo). Grabi has a sister (Ana Cuesta) who is dating a neighborhood bully named Kevin Manuel (Jesus Carroza); Garbi doesn't care for Kevin and tries to break up their relationship, only to incur Kevin's considerable wrath. And while Nandi's friends are busy with women and musclemen, he strikes up a friendship with a lonely kid who lives nearby, Isabel (Isabel Ampudia). ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ivan Massague, Dario Paso, (more)
- 2003
Javier Fesser's stylish action comedy Le Gran Aventura de Mortadelo y Filemon (Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure) brings to life a pair of comic-book characters. Filemon (Pepe Viyuela) and Mortadelo (Benito Pocino) are bumbling secret agents who are fired after their supervisor hires Fredy Mazas (Dominique Pinon) to track down a powerful substance invented by Prof. Bacterio (Janfri Topera) that has fallen into the wrong hands. At the time of its release in its native country of Spain, the film had the most successful opening weekend in history for any domestic film. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Benito Pocino, Pepe Viyuela, (more)
Poltergeist-purger Zelda Rubinstein toplines this interesting, twisty psycho-thriller from Spain, which makes clever (though repetitive) use of its movie-within-a-movie premise. As the star of the horror film "The Mommy," Rubinstein plays a mother who hypnotizes her son (Michael Lerner) into seeking more victims to supply her growing collection of human eyeballs. "The Mommy" seems also to exert a weird hypnotic effect on the audience watching it, particularly one impressionable fellow who mirrors Lerner's actions by stalking fellow movie patrons... just as the onscreen murderer is entering a movie theater to do the same thing. If this sounds confusing, that's probably because it is. The interesting premise wears thin about halfway through, with the relentless attempts at viewer disorientation becoming more tiresome than frightening. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, (more)
