Season Two of “Como Agua Para Chocolate” Honors the Novel’s Excellence
“Como Agua Para Chocolate” season two once again reflects on family impositions, personal autonomy, and of course cooking as self-expression.
What We Are Watching
Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Blunts the Novel’s Edge
There is something inherently off about releasing a film adaptation of Wuthering Heights on Valentine’s Day weekend. In 2026, Warner Bros is packing Emily Brontë’s novel as a tragic romance, but that framing has always been a willful misreading, an attempt to soften a story that is, at its core, about obsession, domination, class resentment, […]
“Silenced” Shows How Defamation Law Became A Weapon Against Survivors
Sundance documentary “Silenced” argues that the #MeToo backlash matured into a profitable legal strategy that lets abusers off the hook.
In “TheyDream,” One Artist’s Losses Fuel His Creativity
Sundance doc “TheyDream” painstakingly resurrects the filmmaker’s lost loved ones. It’s almost too much to bear.
“If I Go Will They Miss Me” Offers a Lyrical Project
What truly sets Walter Thompson-Hernández’s “If I Go Will They Miss Me” apart is the utter beauty it finds in community.
Bad Bunny Turned the Super Bowl Into Puerto Rico’s Living Room
Bad Bunny took the biggest stage in American spectacle culture – The Super Bowl –and said: we’re doing this Boricua style ahora.
10 Latinx (& Spanish) Shows for Your “Heated Rivalry” Hangover
Let’s be honest, we’re all still nursing a hangover after binging “Heated Rivalry” – thankfully these 10 shows scratch the same itch.
“The Legend of Luis Valdez” Illuminates Chicano History (and Its Limitations)
In college, learning about the Chicano movement was a privilege that helped me begin to understand the world around me, in all its complications. Even coming from a predominantly Mexican-American hometown, I didn’t know anything about the movement and the terminology that fueled so much change in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Now, at […]
Catch the Documentary “The Librarians” In Theaters While You Can
I have a ray of light for you in the form of a documentary, “The Librarians,” which tells the stories of white women resisting book bans.
In Season 4, “The Lincoln Lawyer” Faces His Most Personal Challenge Yet
With Mickey’s inner demons coming to the surface, season 4 of “The Lincoln Lawyer” will be one of the most talked-about releases this month.