A Not So Merry Christmas is a Mexican film directed by Mark Alazraki, starring Mauricio Ochmann and Ana Brenda Contreras.
A Mexican version of Groundhog Day (1993), this Netflix production starts well (with a musical number of dance and Christmas carols) and gradually becomes more and more deflated consumed by the inevitable Christmas spirit.
Premise
Chuy has become a bit grumpy and self-centered, having reached midlife, married and father to two. This year he is doomed to relive Christmas day after day in a terrifying space time glitch until he starts appreciating the season.
Movie Review
It has a good premise: a man who hate Christmas that coincidentally falls on the same date as his birthday. May Frank Capra’s everlasting Christmas Spirit forgive me, but it seems that many of us feel like this (even Stephen King), and we relate to the protagonist, and are already fed up with the season,...
A Mexican version of Groundhog Day (1993), this Netflix production starts well (with a musical number of dance and Christmas carols) and gradually becomes more and more deflated consumed by the inevitable Christmas spirit.
Premise
Chuy has become a bit grumpy and self-centered, having reached midlife, married and father to two. This year he is doomed to relive Christmas day after day in a terrifying space time glitch until he starts appreciating the season.
Movie Review
It has a good premise: a man who hate Christmas that coincidentally falls on the same date as his birthday. May Frank Capra’s everlasting Christmas Spirit forgive me, but it seems that many of us feel like this (even Stephen King), and we relate to the protagonist, and are already fed up with the season,...
- 12/20/2022
- by Elisabeth Plank
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
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Omar Chaparro and Joey Morgan (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse) make for an unlikely buddy-cop duo in today’s exclusive batch of images for Enrique Begne’s action-comedy, Compadres.
Arriving by way of Pantelion Films, Begne has assembled an all-star cast for the action flick, placing Chaparro in the role of former Mexican cop, Garza. Framed for a crime he didn’t commit, Garza’s only hope of rescuing his significant other – and clearly his name in the process – is to partner with Vic, a tech whizz-kid with the hacking ability to help his new partner track down an old nemesis named Santos. Before he tracks them down, that is.
Joining Chaparro and Morgan for the actioner are Eric Roberts, Kevin Pollak, Erick Elías, Aislinn Derbez, Camila Sodi, Héctor Jiménez, Mauricio Barrientos and José Sefami.
Lock and load! Pantelion Films will roll out Compadres via...
Omar Chaparro and Joey Morgan (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse) make for an unlikely buddy-cop duo in today’s exclusive batch of images for Enrique Begne’s action-comedy, Compadres.
Arriving by way of Pantelion Films, Begne has assembled an all-star cast for the action flick, placing Chaparro in the role of former Mexican cop, Garza. Framed for a crime he didn’t commit, Garza’s only hope of rescuing his significant other – and clearly his name in the process – is to partner with Vic, a tech whizz-kid with the hacking ability to help his new partner track down an old nemesis named Santos. Before he tracks them down, that is.
Joining Chaparro and Morgan for the actioner are Eric Roberts, Kevin Pollak, Erick Elías, Aislinn Derbez, Camila Sodi, Héctor Jiménez, Mauricio Barrientos and José Sefami.
Lock and load! Pantelion Films will roll out Compadres via...
- 3/31/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
When the football World Cup is on, Mexico's criminals and cops suspend hostilities – ordinarily
Violence, nihilism and despair are the keynotes of Everardo Gout's brutal Mexican thriller. The title refers to that unofficial grace period that operates in football-crazy Mexico during the World Cup, when both the bad guys and the cops take time off, being simply too glued to the TV coverage to ply their respective trades. The action flashes headspinningly backwards and forwards in Mexico City between three World Cups during the last decade, 2002, 2006 and 2010 – sometimes, uncomfortably, the football commentator has to keep saying what year it is – and the storylines unfold in parallel.
Tenoch Huerta plays Lupe, a tough if somewhat fanatical young cop who is not afraid to use his firearm to tackle the bad guys or indeed terrify errant youngsters into sticking to the straight and narrow path of law-abiding righteousness. He attracts the...
Violence, nihilism and despair are the keynotes of Everardo Gout's brutal Mexican thriller. The title refers to that unofficial grace period that operates in football-crazy Mexico during the World Cup, when both the bad guys and the cops take time off, being simply too glued to the TV coverage to ply their respective trades. The action flashes headspinningly backwards and forwards in Mexico City between three World Cups during the last decade, 2002, 2006 and 2010 – sometimes, uncomfortably, the football commentator has to keep saying what year it is – and the storylines unfold in parallel.
Tenoch Huerta plays Lupe, a tough if somewhat fanatical young cop who is not afraid to use his firearm to tackle the bad guys or indeed terrify errant youngsters into sticking to the straight and narrow path of law-abiding righteousness. He attracts the...
- 7/26/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
"Mexico City. 2002, 2006, 2010. A cop. A hostage. A wife. Corruption, violence, vengeance. Three destinies, during 30 days, during three Soccer World Cups. Three ways to fight in order to survive." This is the synopsis of "Days Of Grace." Starring Eva Longoria, Carlos Bardem (Javier's brother), Miguel Rodarte and Paulina Gaitan, while writer/Director Everardo Gout's first feature doesn't have a U.S. release date yet (it screened out of competition at Cannes last year), it does have a rather interesting soundtrack worth noting and maybe that'll give it extra attention.
Out digitally April 3rd via Lakeshore Records, the soundtrack includes Massive Attack's Robert "3D" Del Naja featuring the one and only sultry-voiced Scarlett Johannsson, (presumably a remix of her "Summertime" George Gerswhin song that she performed on the Unexpected Dreams – Songs From the Stars compilation).
Japanese composer Shigeru Umebayashi (Wong Kar-Wai's "In The Mood For Love" and Zhang Yimou's...
Out digitally April 3rd via Lakeshore Records, the soundtrack includes Massive Attack's Robert "3D" Del Naja featuring the one and only sultry-voiced Scarlett Johannsson, (presumably a remix of her "Summertime" George Gerswhin song that she performed on the Unexpected Dreams – Songs From the Stars compilation).
Japanese composer Shigeru Umebayashi (Wong Kar-Wai's "In The Mood For Love" and Zhang Yimou's...
- 3/19/2012
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
BUENOS AIRES -- Filmmakers from Argentina, Mexico and Spain are teaming for the production of the supernatural thriller Boca de Santos starring two of the Spanish-speaking world's hottest stars.
Argentina's Pablo Echarri, fresh off the worldwide success of Telefe's telenovela Montecristo, will headline alongside sexy Spanish actress Elsa Pataky, a veteran of European cinema who last appeared in Snakes on a Plane.
Simon Andreu, Francisco Boira, Tania Esteban, Daniel Martinez, Ofelia Medina, Jose Sefami and Monica Dionee round out the international cast.
Mexico's Satori and Vertigo Films will team with Argentina's Cruz del Sur Cine for the shoot, slated to begin next month in Argentina's Patagonia region, before heading to Barcelona, Spain, and Jalisco, Mexico.
Mexican director Raul Ramon is making his big-screen debut with the project, working from a script penned by Pancho Rodriguez, a protege of Guillermo Del Toro.
The film is budgeted at $5 million and expected to be released in the second half of 2008. It will be the biggest international production the three countries have ever done together.
Argentina's Pablo Echarri, fresh off the worldwide success of Telefe's telenovela Montecristo, will headline alongside sexy Spanish actress Elsa Pataky, a veteran of European cinema who last appeared in Snakes on a Plane.
Simon Andreu, Francisco Boira, Tania Esteban, Daniel Martinez, Ofelia Medina, Jose Sefami and Monica Dionee round out the international cast.
Mexico's Satori and Vertigo Films will team with Argentina's Cruz del Sur Cine for the shoot, slated to begin next month in Argentina's Patagonia region, before heading to Barcelona, Spain, and Jalisco, Mexico.
Mexican director Raul Ramon is making his big-screen debut with the project, working from a script penned by Pancho Rodriguez, a protege of Guillermo Del Toro.
The film is budgeted at $5 million and expected to be released in the second half of 2008. It will be the biggest international production the three countries have ever done together.
- 7/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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