Growing up in a Mexican household, I didn’t grasp that people like me could travel the world. In fact, it was only in the last five years when I realized I could travel – just like Liz Gilbert, Julia Roberts’ character in Eat Pray Love. Though Europe still remains unreachable, movies like this helped me […]
Three decades later, “Cronos” still has the distinct mark of its creator’s debut, serving as a calling card for Guillermo del Toro’s work.
“Martínez” made me ponder how objects hold stories, generational divides, and what can inspire men like my father to change their patterns.
“Cinnamon” blew me away. Channeling the Blaxploitation films of decades past, it feels dated and current in the best ways.
With oppression and amnesia as the status quo, “La Llorona” provides a counter-story to the narrative that Indigenous people are powerless.
“Shiny Happy People” problematizes the Duggar family as entertainment, showing how Discovery+ normalized fundamentalist conservative values.
Hollywood positioning shaving as a staple of femininity and attractiveness is outdated and reductive. It’s time to cut it out. Pun intended.
Whenever I think of the phrase “happily ever after” the first image that comes to mind is Cinderella and her Prince Charming waving from the back of a horse-drawn carriage (understandable since we’ve been conditioned by movies and fairytales to believe that’s what a happy ending looks like); I rarely think about people who don’t […]
As Miles’ mom, Luna Lauren Vélez is the heart of “Across the Spider-Verse,” and LatinaMedia.Co caught up with her to discuss the film.
My Father’s Day recommendations feature Hispanic productions and show the father figure in an active, comforting, touching, and cheerful way.