What We’re Watching

Shang-Chi is an absolutely stunning and captivating movie, and it fills my heart with hope for more culturally-encompassing films. But how they portray the character of Xialing, Shang-Chi’s sister reveals there is more work to be done to represent women of color.

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.

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.

Maybe not the show to watch con Mamá, Netflix ‘Sky Rojo’ is sex and violence, conflict after obstacle after holy-shit moment. It’s also a must binge.

For most of my life, I’ve been Luca, the one trying to keep it cool, constantly having to say: Silenzio, Bruno. Which got me thinking… Why was Luca the way he was? Why did all that anxiety seem so familiar?

The thing that differentiates ‘Never Have I Ever’ from other series for me is Fabiola Torres, the shy, nerdy, robotics-loving, polo shirt-wearing wearing Afro-Latina lesbian I’ve been waiting for.

Today, I watched ‘Banana Land: Blood, Bullets, & Poison,’ created in 2014. And I am outraged. Horrified. Going in, I knew Chiquita was bad but had no idea how violent companies like them really are.

I spoke to Dominique Nieves, one of the filmmakers featured in PBS’s ‘The Latino Experience’ to learn more about her journey creating media from a Latina’s perspective today.

HBO’s Genera+ion shows what it means for a young, queer Latina to fumble through romance for the first time. It’s not just a romcom, but a journey that is complex,…

So while I recommend watching ‘Casa de las flores: The Movie,’ I do hope it concludes the de la Mora family saga. We’ve officially now seen these characters do it all.