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Holiday Films Are in the Works!

One of my favorite time of the year is the holiday season. I love Christmas for many reasons, especially my grandkids and grandnephews. We always find time to watch our old and new favorite Christmas …

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Watch the Featurette Wicked on Singing Live

After two decades as one of the most beloved and enduring musicals on the stage, Wicked makes its long-awaited journey to the big screen as a spectacular, generation-defining cinematic event this holiday season. Synopsis: Wicked, …

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Another Love Story in Honor of Domestic Violence Awareness

In recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, here’s an impactful new film Another Love Story, now available for streaming on TUBI. This timely film sheds light on the emotional and psychological journey of domestic abuse survivors …

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Despicable Me 4 with One of My Little Minions

We enjoyed it! 

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It Was A Twisters Night

My #1 grandson and I screened the new #TwistersMovie last night. And it was a long overdue date, too. The film was much better than we expected. It had its excitements that kept you on …

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Rene Rosado is Just Awesome!

Rene Rosado ©2016 Angela María Ortíz S.

Rene Rosado
©2016 Angela María Ortíz S.

I’ve been watching Rene’s career for years and I’m very excited to see where he is at the present. If you aren’t familiar with his name, you probably have seen him on some of these television shows: Rizzoli & Isles, Criminal Minds, Bones and films like Go for It!, Filly Brown and J.J. Abram’s Star Trek Into Darkness.

Rene Rosado in Major Crimes

Rene Rosado in Major Crimes

We got together at my favorite coffee spot and talked about his recurring role on TNT’s Major Crimes as Gus Wallace, and how this new television family has welcomed him. He’s working on the fifth season already and couldn’t give us even a teaser about it.

Rene Rosado

Rene Rosado

We covered an array of subjects, like his non-profit organization, A.I.M. (Artistic Inspiration and Mentoring). The program brings different artists to speak to inner city students, in the hopes that they will be inspired to become whoever they aspire to be. And he shared some of his plans for the future.

Now sit back and listen in on our fun conversation. — A.O.

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Compadres with Omar Chaparro In Theaters Now

Aislinn Derbez and Camila Sodi

Aislinn Derbez and Camila Sodi

Pantelion’s newest U.S. release is Compadres, an action-adventure, comedy and buddy film. The film has its highs and lows and fans of Omar Chaparro, will be surprised to see him in a different role than his usual high jinx.

Omar Chaparro and Joey Morgan

Omar Chaparro and Joey Morgan

We had the opportunity to speak to a few of the actors about working on the film and they had a lot to say, when we could actually listen. The interview with Chaparro and Joey Morgan was quite a ruckus but we got a few things on audio for you to listen to.

Aislinn Derbez and Camila Sodi told us, though they weren’t in the film a lot, their parts were crucial to the story, and then laughter ensued. And they are ready for the sequel, Comadres, so, please #Comadres. They shot in Ensenada and between takes; there were lots of laughter.

Derbez & Sodi

Derbez & Sodi

Chaparro & Morgan

Chaparro & Morgan

The film’s synopsis: After being released from prison, former Mexican cop Garza (Chaparro) seeks revenge on Santos (Erick Elías). Santos has kidnapped his girlfriend Maria (Derbez) and framed him for a crime he didn’t commit. With the help of his former boss Coronado (José Sefami), Garza manages to escape with a tip about how to find Santos, which leads him to San Diego in search of an “accountant.” When Garza arrives, he is shocked to find that the infamous accountant is a 17-year-old American computer hacker named Vic (Morgan).

The other stars of the film include: Eric Roberts, Kevin Pollak, Héctor Jiménez and is directed by Enrique Begne, who also directed Busco novio para mi mujer, which was released earlier this year.

Now listen in on the conversation and check out Chaparro’s music video for the movie. — A.O.

Another Icon is Gone, PRINCE

Photo: 3RDEYEGIRL NPG RECORDS

Photo: 3RDEYEGIRL NPG RECORDS

A music legend has left us, we knew him as Prince. He was an amazing musician and songwriter; and his influence was immense.

Rest in peace Prince Rogers Nelson (1958 – 2016). Purple Rain Forever…

Juan Pablo Di Pace on FOX’s Rosewood

Juan Pablo Di Pace

Juan Pablo Di Pace

Check out my exclusive conversation with Juan Pablo Di Pace, who’ll be a guest-star on an episode of FOX’s Rosewood. We talked about his character, Antonio Navarro a telenovela star and working with the show’s two leads, Jaina Lee Ortiz and Morris Chestnut.

Juan Pablo Di Pace on Rosewood

Juan Pablo Di Pace on Rosewood

He’s also on Fuller House on Netflix and he’s about to start shooting their second season. I messed up with the new name and called it by its original, Full House. He sounds like he’s having fun on the show. And I had to ask him about taking on the role of the great Tango singer, Carlos Gardel.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

Di Pace

To listen in on our conversation, just click on the audio box.

The Rosewood episode, “Silkworms y Silencio” is on tonight at 8P. — A.O.

Criminal: The Story of the Right Man in the Wrong Body

Criminal

Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner

I thought Criminal was a pretty good film, and Kevin Costner gives a wonderful performance. His character in this film is very different than what we are accustomed to seeing. The story goes like this: in a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative’s memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into an unpredictable and dangerous death-row inmate (Costner) in hopes that he will complete the operative’s mission. And that’s not as easy as it sounds.

Ariel Vromen

Ariel Vromen

David Weisberg

David Weisberg

It has a story line that’s a bit familiar, but with a new take and some humor that wasn’t expected.

We talked with Costner, who spoke at length about why he took this role and the process he went through. Writer David Weisberg was very frank about the whole process of getting your project through the studios and hoping for the best, and director Ariel Vromen was a lot of fun to listen to, especially since he was directing three other experienced directors and a few hopefuls.

Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner

David Weisberg

David Weisberg

Ariel Vromen

Ariel Vromen

One of the challenges of doing roundtables is that sometimes you have one journalist that dominates the questions; in the audio links you’ll notice it but we got some good stuff for you to listen to.

The other stars of the film include: Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Gal Gadot, Alice Eve, Michael Pitt, Jordi Mollà, Antje Traue, Scott Adkins, Amaury Nolasco, Danny Webb, and Colin Salmon. And it was fun to watch them.

Photos: ©2016 Angela María Ortíz S.

A Down and Raw Green Room

Jeremy Saultier and Anton Yelchin

Jeremy Saultier and Anton Yelchin

We call it a Punk Rock horror film, but writer/director Jeremy Saultier (Blue Ruin) has another description of how he sees the film and you can listen to him and actor Anton Yelchin (Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness) tell us about it, just click on the audio button.

Green Room

Green Room

Synopsis: Green Room is a fun horror-thriller with Patrick Stewart as a diabolical club owner who squares off against an unsuspecting but resilient young punk band.

Down on their luck punk rockers The Ain’t Rights are finishing up a long and unsuccessful tour, and are about to call it quits when they get an unexpected booking at an isolated, rundown club deep in the backwoods of Oregon. What seems merely to be a third-rate gig escalates into something much more sinister when they witness an act of violence backstage that they weren’t meant to see.

Saultier & Yelchin

Saultier & Yelchin

The film stars Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Mark Webber, Erid Edelstein, Macon Blair, and Kai Lennox.

Green Room opens in Los Angeles and New York on April 15, expanding on the 22 and nationwide on April 29.

Hands of Stone Trailer

hands of stoneA biopic on Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran, played by Édgar Ramírez. Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz and starring Ana de Armas, Robert De Niro, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rubén Blades, Usher Raymond, Óscar Jaenada, Ellen Barkin, and John Turturro.

The film is coming this August, 2016.

Hostile Border Opens April 15

Hostile Border posterWhen first released, this independent film was known as Pocha: Manifest Destiny, and it did the film festival circuit. Now with a new title of Hostile Border, we meet a small-time criminal named Claudia (Veronica Sixtos), who was raised in the U.S., she’s an undocumented immigrant living beyond her means in a twisted version of the American dream. When the FBI arrests her for credit card fraud, Claudia is quickly deported to Mexico. Speaking no Spanish and lost in her foreign “homeland,” she reluctantly takes refuge at her estranged father’s cattle ranch. And that’s when this crime thriller takes off.

Directed by Michael Dwyer and also starring Julio Cedillo, Roberto Urbina, Jorge A. Jimenez, and Jesse Garcia.

The film opens in a limited release on April 15. Check your local theaters to find time and location.

Marvel’s Doctor Strange Teaser Trailer

Doctor Strange Poster-1Check out the first teaser trailer for Doctor Strange. Directed by Scott Derrickson and stars Benedict Cumberbatch (Dr. Stephen Strange), Tilda Swinton (Ancient One), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Baron Mordo), and also Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, and Mads Mikkelsen.

In theaters November 4.

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