“You know, she was utterly fearless,” says Carey Mulligan when speaking of Felicia Montealegre Bernstein. Mulligan knows this better than most, having spent much of the last five years with Felicia Montealegre Bernstein, the woman married to American composer, Leonard Bernstein. The world knows of Leonard Bernstein and his broad and considerable contributions to composing, […]
I gave a TEDx talk on the need for more diversity in film and TV criticism, telling the story of how and why Nicola Schulze and I co-founded LatinaMedia.Co. To say I was scared would be an understatement. But as Audre Lorde said, “When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service […]
Quantum Leap, The Boys, Gen V, Bridgerton, Grey’s Anatomy, and so many others are missing the depth and character Latinos bring.
Like it or not, Greta Gerwig’s movie has everyone asking, who is Barbie? And every feminist asking, do we like her now?
‘Jane the Virgin’ brought forth a new era of millennial, high-quality telenovelas showing strong Latina leads.
‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ features fabulous vintage fashion, catchy music, and two amazing Latinx actors in Camila Morrone and Sebastian Chacon
UCLA’s 2023 Hollywood Diversity Report is out, and with it comes valuable insight and new Latino representation statistics on the big screen.
At SXSW, Latinos from John Leguizamo to Julio Torres to Cheech Marin sounded off on the importance of our community creating our own stuff.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is fantasy on a scale never truly seen before on TV. Comparisons to HBO’s Game of Thrones, or Netflix’s Stranger Things are superfluous and unnecessary, because if we’re being honest, The Lord of the Things: The Rings of Power isn’t even operating on the same level. […]
Like many Latines out there, I grew up watching telenovelas with my mom and my grandma. I loved the rags-to-riches romances. You know the type – the kind of stories that made me believe that one day I, too, would find the person who would wait for me as I walked down the aisle, dressed […]