Monday, January 11, 2010 at 20:14 
People who, like me, grew up in the 80s, were exposed to two very different TV experiences: the highly successful American evening soap operas which, on the trip over the pond to my native Spain, were relegated to the newly established, housewife-oriented daytime slot, on the one hand, and the Hollywood classics which, back then , still enjoyed primetime status, on the other.
Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 18:13 
It's now exactly a decade ago that Alex de la Iglesia, one of Spanish new cinema's enfants terribles, took Spain by storm when his film La Comunidad opened to rave reviews and thus paved the way to a new tendency he had initiated some years before with El Día de la Bestia and that was then thought to mark the beginning of a new genre that, unfortunately, he's been unable or unwilling to further develop. Ignited by a bravura comeback performance by Almodovar's erstwhile muse Carmen Maura, La Comunidad was a stunningly satistying hydrid of Spanish Costumbrism and horror thriller.
Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 18:12 
As I was going through my favorite artists of the year to make my 2009 best of list (see entry on the blog), I was tempted to include Brooklyn-based duo French Horn Rebellion, but it would have been somehow hard to justify the decision of ranking them in a Top Ten Album list when all this pair of brothers has ever published are two EP, the gorgeous Up All Night and Beaches & Friends. I can't resist to mention them in my blog, though, since they may be the band to quote same time, next year.
Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 22:56 Animal Collective, Bat for Lashes, Camera Obscura, Girls, Gossip, Jack Peñate, Peter Yorn & Scarlett Johanson or even sizzling Little Boots could have made the cut, but here is my list of the ten best albums of the year. Leave comments and suggestions of your own.
