At its core, horror explores the discomfort of power imbalances and if that doesn't sum up what it is be women today, I don't ...
What is the most “epic” gay movie? Best-Picture winner Moonlight? It’s so quiet and deeply personal. Brokeback Mountain with its sweeping landscapes and major stars? It’s ultimately the story of one ...
There is a lot of Ryan Murphy chatter in the world right now. But somewhere along the way, audiences started demanding documentary standards from a man who has spent more than a decade making ...
Monsters are real. And they exist outside of childhood fairytales, beyond the pages of a book, and off the screen. That is what Mexican filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro shows us in Pan’s Labyrinth. He’s ...
“Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” suffers from lack of female insight (and not letting the titular hero lead her own series).
The new documentary, “Cultural Capital” reveals how colonialism steals narrative authority – the right to decide what matters.
A Disney animated feature is always a big deal. But when it’s a banner number like the 60th release and the first in-theater feature since the start of the pandemic, it’s an even bigger deal. Of ...
On the Latin American literary and cultural map of the 20th century, Mexican author Jorge Ibargüengoitia (1928–1983) is one of the most provocative and influential. Among his extensive literary and ...
If you look up the center of the Brazilian city of Goiânia on Google Maps today, you will see that 57th Street bears a grim reminder in its name: “Cesium 137.” This denomination marks the place where, ...
Emilia Pérez is trash. No, I don’t care that it’s been nominated for thirteen Academy Awards and won a few Golden Globes. Yes, this is the hill I, a Mexican, have chosen to die on. Audiard’s lack of ...
Currently, Mexican American author Reyna Grande is best known for her groundbreaking memoir The Distance Between Us and works of historical fiction, including Across a Hundred Mountains. And she’s ...
Remember history class? How much more fun and engaging would those classes have been if Latinxs were included in the curriculum? How would our self-esteem and sense of identity be better if we saw ...