Just Walking/ The Oxford Murders

JUST WALKING, (SOLO QUIERO CAMINAR) 2008, 129 min. Dir. Agustín Díaz Yanes. The action opens in Andalucia as four women -- Gloria (Victoria Abril), Aurora (Ariadna Gil), Ana (Elena Anaya) and Paloma (Pilar López de Ayala) -- are poised to rip off Russian gangsters in Spain. Things go awry and Aurora is left behind, receiving a lengthy jail sentence. Gloria and Ana hatch a plot to spring Aurora from jail. Reunited in Mexico, the girls plot a new heist.

THE OXFORD MURDERS (LOS CRIMINES DE OXFORD), 2008, 108 min. From Spanish filmmaker, Alex de la Iglesia (DAY OF THE BEAST; LA COMUNIDAD) a riveting thriller in English. American student Martin (Elijah Wood) arrives in Oxford on a foreign exchange program and gets tongues wagging when he challenges the theory of Professor Seldom (John Hurt) that math doesn't hold the exact answer to everything. But this mismatched pair are thrown together when a series of murders starts that seems to throw both their theories into disarray.