Bobby Cannavale and director Woody Allen
on the set of Blue Jasmine
Comedy, drama, and horror–there’s a little bit of everything from Latinos in Hollywood this week, regardless of your personal tastes.
Want a romantic comedy/teenage coming-of-age story? Here’s Aubrey Plaza, absolutely an actress on the rise, in her first completely lead role: The To Do List, where she plays an overserious high school student who goes just a little nuts when she heads off to college. It’s opening wide on Friday.
Maybe you’d prefer a more serious drama. Then catch double Emmy nominee Bobby Cannavale and multi-multi Emmy nominee Louis C.K. (surprisingly) for the premiere of Woody Allen’s newest film, Blue Jasmine, opening in art houses across America this Friday. Cate Blanchett stars in this story of the final stage of an acute crisis in the life of a fashionable New York housewife.
Maybe you’re looking for a high-class thriller. Then join Gina Gallego, best known for her stint on Days of Our Lives, in The Time Being, a thriller with Frank Langella and Sarah Paulson, set for limited release this Friday.
Or maybe you just want to enjoy a good ol’ fashioned Friday Night Horror Show. Then check out screen (and scream) writer Miguel Tejada-Flores’ zombie extravaganza, Frankenstein’s Army. The description is irresistible for the horror-geeks among us: “In the waning days of World War II, a team of Russian soldiers finds itself on a mysterious mission to the lab of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. They unearth a terrifying Nazi plan to resurrect fallen soldiers as an army of unstoppable freaks and are soon trapped in a veritable haunted house of cobbled-together monstrosities. Frankenstein’s Army is the wild steampunk Nazi found-footage zombie mad scientist film you’ve always wanted.” What’s not to love?
