Colombia has endured one of the region’s most prolonged and deadliest conflicts in the Americas.  While there have been other films about the conflict, few…

A bleak look at Pinochet-era Chile through the eyes of a man obsessed with Saturday Night Fever, and little else.

Fourteen of the finest recent films from Mexico will be showcased as part of the Hola Mexico Film Festival at Chicago’s Landmark Century Theater this…

It came as a notable surprise to many individuals in the audience at this year’s Chicago Latino Film Festival during a post screening Q &…

It’s hard to avoid the topic of immigration in everyday life and this includes the arts and cinema. The fact of the matter is these…

Siblings Beto (Diego Luna) and Tato (Gael García Bernal) are plucked from their provincial life as banana-pickers in rural Jalisco to play professional soccer in…

Almodovar’s new film Abrazos Rotos closes the NYFF in September, but here’s a little something in the meantime…

Cary Fukanaga’s debut is a beautifully shot, but unromanticized look at immigration, gang violence, and poverty in Central America.

I just got back from my first trip to Sundance. A short film I acted in (Small Collection by Dir. Jeremiah Crowell – shameless plug)…

Ramin Bahrani is unlike most independent filmmakers working today. And that’s quite the compliment. After making the exceptional and quietly profound Man Push Cart—which followed…

Alfredo De Villa’s “Nothing Like The Holidays” is no exception to the standard American cinema template of an acceptable holiday film. But “Holidays” does offer…

Puerto Rico is a unique, beautiful island. It’s a halfway nation, err… o.k., make that a halfway U.S. colony. As such, it has characteristics of…

An untapped sense of aching emptiness permeates the central characters in writer-director Woody Allen’s 39th feature film Vicky Cristina Barcelona. As American tourists Vicky (Rebecca…

“I don’t like frontiers. I don’t like hymns. I don’t like the military. I don’t like parades. I don’t like immigration officers.”
The writer and…

What comes first: pain or pleasure? Happiness or sadness? Does it hurt to love and be loved, or because we’re already in pain we need…