This is the best Woody Allen movie I've seen in a while. Anyone who knows me will know that I'm a big fan of him, so this is serious praise...Vicky and Cristina are very different girls. Vicky sleeps with everything that breathes, being more interested in passion than in love. Cristina, on the other hand, is reasonable, settling for what's okay instead of looking for anything improbable. However, when they find themselves in Spain, their old habits don't necessarily stand up.I find this movie both sexy and funny. Penélope Cruz does a good job as ever-present Maria Elena (even though ...

What you can do with just a few thousand dollars, if you possess natural film talent like former Austinite Alex Holdridge: Create a black-and-white romantic comedy that makes Los Angeles as retro-seductive as Woody Allen’s New York City in Manhattan; launch two protagonists that one could easily detest, then draw us deeply into their brief encounter; revisit a familiar tribe of scruffy, marginal wannabes and transform them into the most important people in the universe. No wonder this tiny movie, partly filmed in Austin, made critics stand up and notice. I’ll let those reviews speak for themselves. Some of the ...