Planell has been working as a writer on Spanish television for several years, so it is little surprise that this story feels as though it could just as easily be an episode in an ongoing soap opera as the basis for a feature film.
A couple on the brink of adoption, find themselves in crisis.
The insular world of inner-city gangs is evoked quite successfully with the unshakable sense that these young people are trapped in vicious circles of perpetuating ignorance.
One might begin to wonder if the franchise is running out of steam - until an amazing last quarter hour which, even with OTT promises in place, manages to turn all the dials one higher.
The heroes of the first Sharknado film are the only hope for the east coast of the US when a huge sharknado starts moving along it.
With writer Thunder Levin engaged throughout in trying to get his 'nadoes to, um, jump the shark, one wonders if the thrill hasn't gone for him too.
A revolutionary new atmosphere stabiliser has been holding sharknadoes at bay, but as hero Fin prepares for a family reunion in Las Vegas, things are about to go very wrong.
Although pteracuda briefly charms with an attack on a plane, there's never really any doubt about who we're rooting for.
When a deadly half-pterodactyl, half-barracuda creature made for the military escapes, its creators seek out the child of Sharktopus to try and stop it.
If Stewart had focused more on sharks and less on his own misadventures, then the sharks could have had their day in the court of cinema without any needless and unhelpful interjections from their own defence team.
Barrowman is the only person here with anything verging on acting talent, and he does his best to hide it, adapting smoothly to the others' style of blank looks and awkward recitation.
A monster shark thought long extinct awakens off the California coast and starts munching tourists.
Isolation rules and comfort is cold in Scott Graham's gripping and emotionally tense feature debut.
An intense story of two people who struggle to keep their longings for freedom under control, set against a beautiful and remote landscape that reflects their isolation back at them.
A Romanian domestic worker agrees to a surrogacy deal with her employer, but becomes convinced there's something sinister about the child she's carrying.
The screenwriter's approach to story seems to have prioritised quantity over quality. It's an attempt to dazzle the audience, throwing in so many twists that it might be hoped we don't notice how predictable most of them are or how little sense they make.
A psychiatrist gets out of her depth with a young man who seems to have multiple personality disorder.
If you have any doubts about buying this DVD and supporting the cause, they will disperse like the morning mist when you watch U2, accompanied by a dangerously sexy Mary J Blige.
Film stars man the phones; others speak from the heart, while musicians perform for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Money, as the old saying goes, is the root of all evil here, not just because of inherent greed but because of the way it permeates through relationships, poisoning as it passes through.
Trouble brews for a shepherd when he refuses to sell his land to a developer.
She, A Chinese is slow to build yet powerful throughout, its pumping Chinese pop music soundtrack hinting at the passion that simmers inside mild-faced Mei.
Journey of self-discovery for a young Chinese woman tired of the provinces.
Corman successfully creates a sense of threat using only real shark footage, without recourse to the kind of special effects later contributors to the genre would enjoy.
Two fleeing criminals are shipwrecked on an island inhabited only by women, who worship a shark god.
Aschan has chosen an austere, cold palette that reflects the cool calculations of Cassandra and Emma as they vie for dominance and she and her co-writer Josefine Adolfsson keep the scripting stripped down, so that the body language of the pair is as impor
An intense relationship of power-play develops between two girls on an equestrian acrobatics team.
Good documentary finds something interesting, great documentary shows us its subject in an interesting way, and this is a great documentary - brilliant, even.
A young British filmmaker travels to the US to meet bigfoot hunters, but discovers that they may be more dangerous than they seem.
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