"Sterling Point" and I Explore Estranged Family
…the real reason behind her parents’ divorce, and realizing the life she had planned is no longer viable, all in the span of one summer, is too much. A few…
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Five Short Films Making the Most of Their Format
…expect for the format. They can be funny, surreal, romantic, or strangely moving. The limited runtime forces each new director to make an immediate creative choice. There’s no room for…
“Todo Parecía Posible” in Puerto Rico Then and Now
…to and from school. An impactful scene shows women, men, and older children carrying plows and other instruments as they begin the huge task ahead. Another snippet tackles the colonial…
"72 Hours" Is No. 1, Thanks to Marcello Hernández
…wild. A tourist does enough cocaine to believe he’s suddenly Al Pacino. Then something real happens and the fantasy collapses. Hart’s Ricardo Montana works because it pushes his frantic performance…
Why Streamers Keep Rewriting Infamous Women Killers like Elize
…series stages them. The timelines do not overlap as neatly as the fiction requires. What Tremembé is really doing is introducing three women to one another who never shared a…
Chloe Vega and the Road to Publishing Children’s Fantasy Novels About Immigration
…about what it’s really like. I wanted to write something that would not only introduce the subject to folks unfamiliar with it, but also wouldn’t be painful for anyone going…
“Stuart Fails to Save the Universe” Expands the “Big Bang Theory”
…Maria Canals-Barrera. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that profession, but it’s hard not to wonder whether Hollywood writers realize that people of Latin American heritage also earn Ph.D.s and pursue…
"Street Smart" Celebrates Sonia Manzano and Her Work as Maria on "Sesame Street"
…Her banter with Oscar the Grouch grew into an endearing friendship. Her real daughter played her TV daughter. She eventually became a writer on the show and won 15 Emmys…
“Cultural Capital” Interrogates Museums’ Ongoing Colonial Theft
…gets to describe an object? Who gets to assign value? Who gets to write “provenance” or chart who owned it, when? That last question matters more than most people realize….
With “The Intrigue,” Silvia Moreno-García Exposes Mexico’s Rigid Past
…Unlike her previous works, this time the author sets aside supernatural elements and unexplained phenomena to focus strictly on human psychology and social realism. The Intrigue boldly blends the crime…