"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…
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"Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird" is an Ode to Friendship
Director Nicolas Jack Davies was in Austin about two years ago after interviewing Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala for the documentary, Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird. As…
"Cheech and Chong's Last Movie" Keeps Their Legacy Smokin
…it was attached to. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong have been making us laugh with their stoner comedy for over 50 years, but Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie reveals their…
SXSW's “Switch Up” Brings an Easy Latinidad to US Rom-Coms
…setting, Maimi, and then Brownsville, but also the cast – Restrepo moved to the US from Colombia just eight years ago, and de la Fuente, who’s Chilean, has been appearing…
Why “Solito” by Javier Zamora Matters
…had already left the country years before he joined them. We meet his family, community, teachers, and classmates and as readers, we too have to let them go as we…
4 Iconic Oscar Isaac Roles to Celebrate His 45th Birthday
…Inside Llewyn Davis. Since then and after years of perseverance, Isaac has cultivated an exceptional acting repertoire that includes more than 60 film and television roles and countless awards and…
The Short List of the 8 Oscar-Nominated Women Directors
…Mimi (1972) and Love and Anarchy (1973). Jane Campion – The Piano (1994) It took 17 years for the Academy to nominate another woman director. In addition to helming this…
"Past Lives" Is a Mediation on (Immigrant) Sacrifice Wrapped in a Love Story
…the English language. After years of surviving, they eventually had me and my brother. A large part of our childhood involved packing up all our belongings into cardboard boxes and…
"This is Me... Now" Won't Help JLo's Reputation as an Artist
…After 20 years, Jennifer Lopez, the hopeless romantic, returns to Ben after learning to love herself. God help us. “I know what they say about me, about hopeless romantics, that…
"La Guagua Aérea" and the Not So Promised Land
…a few years earlier and never returned. When his worried granddaughter asks “¿Abuelo tú vas a volver?,” he reassuringly tells her he will but we’re left doubting it. Later on,…