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LOCKED Is Intense and Entertaining A talk with the Director

We caught up with the director of LOCKED David Yarovesky (Brightburn, Nightbooks), just before we screened the film with no spoilers. The film took nineteen days to shoot. Watch our quick interview. Synopsis: No escape. No …

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At a Screening of Dog Man the Movie

It was an enjoyable screening with two of the grandsons. The five year old said it was happy and sad at the same time. And he loved it! The twelve year old who has read …

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Unstoppable Streaming on Prime Video

Unstoppable is the inspiring true story of Anthony Robles (Jharrel Jerome) who was born with one leg but whose indomitable spirit and unbreakable resolve empowered him to defy the odds and pursue his dreams. With the …

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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 The Speed to the BoxOffice

“Sonic 3 will beat out Mufasa, for sure!” — JimmityCritic (12) Sonic the Hedgehog 3, what a fun evening with the grandkids it was. When you have a 12, 10 and 5 year-old clap their hands at the end …

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Mufasa: The Lion King the Prequel

Mufasa: The Lion King was entertaining and the production value was amazing to watch. Set in Africa, all-new film blends live-action filmmaking techniques with photoreal computer-generated imagery.  My 12 year-old grandson thought it was one …

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Holá to los Muppets

As we’ve said before, this holiday season hasn’t offered us a whole lot of Latino actors or themes in the theaters…but at least The Muppets are giving us a little to smile at. Among the eight gazillion cameos in their upcoming movie starring Amy Adams and Jason Segel, you’l find a number of familiar Latino faces for at least a few seconds each, including Rico Rodriguez, Selena Gomez, Eddie ‘Piolin’ Sotelo, Eugenio Derbez. A few of them, like Rico and Eugenio, even showed up at the L.A. premiere. Read the rest of this entry »

The mid-season shuffle hits Latino actors (and everyone else)

It’s no secret that it’s been a tough Fall Premiere season for the TV networks, especially NBC. Now the mid-season retreats, retoolings, returns and premieres are being announced, and a number of the shows featuring Latino performers are suffering the consequences of the ‘soft’ season opener.

Free Agents and H8R are already gone. Now Harry’s Law, despite a strong season opener with Alfred Molina and the arrival of Tony Award-winner Karen Olivo, is being moved yet again, to Sunday night–not quite the Land of the Dead that is Saturday, but not exactly the ratings super-highway, either. Prime Suspect, with Kirk Acevedo and Read the rest of this entry »

Luis Guzmán reappears on “Community” for the first time!

If you’ve been following NBC’s odd little sitcom Community, about a very strange study group at Greendale Community College, you already know the long-standing joke in the series about well-known (or at least well-recognized) Latino character actor Luis Guzmán. Luis, it seems, is the only famous graduate of this mythical school; they’re so proud of him they even put up a statue that’s appeared in half-a-dozen episodes over the last couple of seasons…but Guzman himself has never actually been on the show. Read the rest of this entry »

“A Better Life,” Demián Bichir, and Chris Weitz come back for more

TheWrap.com–one of our favorite ‘industry’ web sites–staged a recent screening of A Better Life, Chris Weitz’ touching and powerful independent film about immigration, honor, and parenthood. There’s growing buzz about Oscar possibilities here, especially about Mexican actor Demián Bichir. So it was especially nice that there was a wide-ranging and good-natured conversation with Weitz and Bichir after the screening, and Se Fija! was there, grabbing a little shaky-cam audio and video that’s well worth the view. Click on the window below for part one, or go to the Se Fija! channel on YouTube and enjoy.

By the way, A Better Life may have gotten next-to-no theatrical distribution, but it is already available for your viewing pleasure. Read the rest of this entry »

Geoffrey Rivas, “CSI” regular, sees his character exposed and extinguished

Geoffrey Rivas has portrayed Detective Sam Vega on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation twenty times…and apparently twenty is enough. In his most recent (and last) episode, “Crime after Crime,” we discover something very bad about Det. Vegas and something very bad happens to him because of it–not necessarily in that order.

Vegas first appeared over ten years ago, in “Too Tough to Die,” the sixteenth episode of the series in its very first season. Since then, not a year has passed that Sam hasn’t shown up at least once or twice as the detective in charge. But no more.

It’s funny–Rivas has been appearing in TV shows for almost 25 years, and he’s played a cop so often it’s hard to keep count. His first cop seems to be in a TV movie called Steel Justice, almost twenty years ago. Since then, he’s been a policeman over and over, on Chicago Hope, Brooklyn South, Pensacola: Wings of Gold, The District, Numb3rs, Standoff, Shark, Lincoln Heights, and just a couple of weeks ago on American Horror Story. And that’s not including his appearances as security guards, soldiers, customs agents and once–ironically–even a crime scene investigator, early on.

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Kirk Acevedo updates his resume yet again: NBC’s “Prime Suspect” halts production

It’s not that Kirk Acevedo can’t get work; he’s been employed pretty steadily in network TV series for almost a decade, jumping almost immediately from Oz on HBO to Law & Order: Trial by Jury (hey, remember that one? Neither do we.) to The Black Donnellys (ditto) to Fringe and finally to Prime Suspect. It looked like a good place to land–a very prestigious NBC show, heavily promoted and based on the cult-level popular BBC series of the same name, starring Helen Mirren. And the other actors in the show, Read the rest of this entry »

Susie Castillo brightens up “Castle” episode

Actress, author, TV host, tweeter–embezzler?

Only on the TV.

Susie Castillo looks like one of those dynamic, ever-busy young Latina powerhouses you’d really like to hang out with…if you could get her to slow down long enough to catch up with her. Most recently, she played a central role as a multi-million dollar (and not terribly successful) embezzler in a recent episode of Castle; you can catch it here on abc.com  on hulu.com, click here.

Soon, she’ll be seen in A Holiday Engagement, a cute little rom-com where she plays the ex-girlfriend (check out the clip below), and there’s another indie film More than Stars. We’ve put a clip from Holiday Engagement up on our YouTube channel Read the rest of this entry »

The amazing invisible Latin Grammy Awards

What used to be a big deal now goes virtually unnoticed by English-language TV

The real news first: The Latin Grammy Awards still exist, and it was broadcast on Thursday, November 10, at 8P on Univision. There was even a “Green Carpet” special before that and a pre-telecast before that.

This is no small thing; major sponsors like Heineken, 7UP, Delta Airlines McDonalds, and CoverGirl, among many others, are prominent sponsors, and one of Latino Hollywood’s biggest crossover stars, Shakira, is being honored with the 2011 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year during the ceremony. Read the rest of this entry »

Gloria Estefan explores the roots of Latin music with the BBC, Part 5

On the BBC talking about the roots of Latin music, part 5 is on. This week Gloria celebrates The Latinas – the legendary women of Latin music. All seven episodes will be available to listen to on the BBC iPlayer until December 22nd. And if you missed our original post on this event, you can read it here.

Eva Longoria and ABC working on an English adaptation of the telenovela “Soy Tu Dueña”

A big hit on Univision; will that translate?

ABC continues its ambitious plans to embrace the Latino market, and Eva Longoria remains at the forefront. This time, Deadline Hollywood reports that Longoria’s stepping up to be executive producer for an English-language version of Univision’s very popular telenovela, Soy Tu Dueña. The drama “centers on a Texas heiress who loses her fortune and is forced to move back to the ranch where she grew up.” Longoria’s involvement–as the most visible Latina in the ABC ‘family’–is interesting; equally important is the inclusion of a Latino writer and showrunner in Jorge Zamacona.

The title of the project is interesting in itself. Though it literally translates to “I Am Your Owner,” its meaning is something closer to “Woman of Steel,” Read the rest of this entry »

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