A Love Letter to Selena Quintanilla

Selena was one of the most important films of my formative years. The Queen of Tejano Music’s upbringing as a Texas girl whose first language was English takes up only…

Camila Mendes Might Just Be Our Generations' JLo

…or played a stereotype Angélica Escobar Nothing got better a couple years later when in Monster-in-Law (2008), the leading man’s grandmother refers to Lopez’s character Charlie with this line, “He…

"My Dead Friend Zoe" Is a Different Veteran Film

…(Utkarsh Ambudkar). The cinematic colonel of this project is writer/director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes. A veteran of the Army, he served five years as a US Army paratrooper in Iraq, earned a…