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“Cassandro” is a moving, and sweet biopic that touches on interesting ideas about gender and performance, even if it could have gone deeper. 

“Red, White, & Royal Blue” is a refreshingly honest, sweet, and sexy watch even if it stumbles on its own ambitions from time to time.

The target of school book bans isn’t explicit material – but stories that normalize LGBTQ and kids of color’s experiences.

I appreciate ‘Love, Victor’ for its commitment to showing the realities of life as a queer person of color. It never held back.

‘Crush’ is a hilarious, heartwarming movie about embracing identity, being fearless, and letting go of fantasies—all in the name of queer love.

Re-watching the hit Colombian telenovela ‘Yo Soy Betty, La Fea’ offers this Costa Rican fan plenty of reflection opportunities.

To call Brooklyn 99 a “good” cop show isn’t as simple as it seems. After the murder of George Floyd, cops and the shows that portrayed them faced a lot of well-earned scrutiny. Brooklyn 99 was just one of many series to experience an identity crisis during its latest (and for B99, its last) season.

With his sophomore release “El Gusano,” author Luis Carlos Barragán Castro shows a trend in his work, where he integrates the imaginative power of science-fiction and the richness of Latin American culture to imagine better worlds. Not perfect, not absent of conflict, pain, confusion, or death, but better.

If I made a list of this year’s most underrated films, Summertime (2021) would fill the top three spots. Directed by Mexican-American filmmaker Carlos López Estrada (also the director of Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon) and executive produced by Kelly Marie Tran, the film interweaves the stories of 25 extraordinary people over the course of one summer day in Los Angeles.

I love the word Latinx. But if you’ve participated in “Hispanic” social media over the last few years, there are people who absolutely. Hate. It.