Gael Garcia Bernal’s (super hot) half-brother, Darío Yazbek Bernal, is following in his footsteps. The 19 year old fetus with creepy fans has been cast in his first movie, Daniel y Ana, a film about the kidnapping of a...

A new film coming out in India has been facing some backlash from Hollywood. Not because it failed to offer an excuse for Hollywood’s sexy “Brownface” trend, but because they feel it’s a rip-off of the Harry Potter franchise....

My Mexican Shivah is playing through next week at the Quad Cinema, in case you’ve been completely saturated with movies about Mexican Jews. [Ed. note: That was a joke, by the way, for those of you a little new...

If you’re in or around the L.E.S. this weekend and want to do something that doesn’t necessarily place you in the company of at least 7,000 NYU students with expensive asymmetrical haircuts, then we suggest you attend the “Losaida...

A friend brought to our attention what sounds like a fairly interesting documentary about two of the most vilified (a strong word, sure, but we think an apt one) groups in America: Gays and Latinos. (Well. And/or young people.)...

The desire to telegraph a great deal about a character in a short amount of time can leave a writer open to using cultural stereotypes. It’s human and we all do it. But so is shitting our pants when...

Variety reports today that British production house September Films has won the rights to produce a Thomas Beatie documentary. Because no one likes tabloid fodder better than the Brits. The documentary, “will tell the story of his life, from...

Last night PBS premiered The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez on their documentary series P.O.V. The movie, narrated by Tommy Lee Jones, examines the 1997 case of United States Marines mistakenly gunning down American citizen Esequiel Hernandez who was tending...

Itching for a big screen version of Ingrid Betancourt’s rescue from Farc rebels? Well, jerk, you’re in luck! Vertigo Entertainment and RCN, a Colombian television network, have teamed up to create a movie version of the headline-grabbing rescue. Whether...

Daddy “Latino of the Year” Yankee is super, pero like, duper excited about his film debut in HBO Latin Film Festival’s Talento De Barrio. It’s, you know. A little indie film slash romantic comedy slash science fiction blockbuster sort...

PSA alert! Because there are no Latino, Arab or Black actors in Hollywood, all roles as minorities will helpfully be portrayed by White people in this, the “Summer of Brownface.” Or, in the case of Mike Myers in The...

Every person with fallopian tubes in Hollyood is in or worked on the upcoming comedy The Women. Think of it as Sex and the City, without the image of Kim Cattrall’s clitoris constantly in your face or some penis...

Benicio Del Toro won “Best Actor” in Cannes for his role as Che in Che, a movie about Che. Che!: Benicio Del Toro won the best-actor prize for “Che,” Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour-plus epic about Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara....

RBD’s Dulce María is set to star in the upcoming movie Una Vez Más, which tells me story of a tacky but popular telenovela starlet who tries and fails miserably at transitioning onto the big screen. JK! It’s about...

Woody Allen and the cast of his latest film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, were on hand to not discuss anything interesting about their movie in Cannes: Allen brushed aside a question about whether it was true that Spanish directors were...

There is a reason we’re not friends with film majors. Eventually, they will want to sit you down and force you to watch a woman onscreen hold an inside-out umbrella in Bushwick while screaming “SPATULA! SPATULA!” and then ask...

Eva Mendes is set to star in La Reina del Sur, a film about how glamorous it is to traffic narcotics and fuck an ese up: The story is being touted as a “female Scarface,” and centers on a...

Just like all our trips abroad, Scarlett Johansson (Christina) and Rebecca Hall (Not Christina) spend their trip to Barcelona deeply immersing themselves in Spanish culture Javier Bardem and/or Penelope Cruz. In fact, “people having sex” seems to be the...

Bobby Moresco, the man behind the preachy, pedantic Oscar-winning shitfest that was Crash, is set to write and possibly direct a film on Fidel Castro’s daughter, Alina Fernandez: Fernandez, a product of an affair Castro had while married to...

Jim Carrey is currently filming his latest movie, I Love You Phillip Morris, in which he plays a man who is incarcerated, falls in love with his cellmate (played by Ewan “Our Husband” McGregor) and breaks out of jail...

Salma Hayek is donning a beard (No, not Penelope Cruz! Cállate ya.) for her latest movie Cirque Du Freak. And she still looks hotter than we ever have, in our entire lives. Even though all we have is some...

We are positively aqueef with excitement over this movie. It’s directed by Tarsem Singh, who made The Cell, which just so happens to be one of our favorite movies, despite Jennifer Lopez. So what’s The Fall about?: Los Angeles,...

Scarlett Johansson is set to play Silk N. Floss in Frank Miller’s adaptation of The Spirit. And we think this outfit is pretty much the most perfect thing we’ve ever seen! Yes, sure, it’s terrible that nurses are consistently...

It appears that Jessica Alba and company won’t be returning to the theater in a third installment of the Fantastic Four franchise. Probably because the whole thing was a fantastic bore. Guys. Shut up. It’s Friday. Chris Evans, who...

“Ugly Betty” star America Ferrera is going to lend her voice to a new animated film from DreamWorks. How To Train Your Dragon is based on the British children’s novel of the same name. Because nothing says “easy money”...

Madonna’s new oeuvre, Filth and Wisdom, has turned the cinematic world on its head and has it sliding its chocha down a pole if front of robust businessmen who smell like cigars and smegma. Not only does it show...

British actress Emily Blunt is set to play a Texas woman in the upcoming film The Girl. The movie centers around Emily’s character, who comes across the young daughter of an illegal immigrant who has lost her mother: The...

Hirsute actor Benicio del Toro is set to play the titular character in director Mark Romanek’s remake of The Wolfman. Actress Emily Blunt says the movie will be scary and, surprisingly, encourages us all to watch: The Devil Wears...

Leave it to the Germans to explain the misfortunes of censoring some ass. In this video, Guanabee pet Jessica Alba’s booty was apparently deemed too much for US viewers [Ed. Note: Sadly, her “talent” was not] and is lackadaisically...

Maybe actor Sean Penn’s mouth will finally be occupied if rumors that Diego Luna will play his onscreen love interest prove true. Sean Penn is set to play politician Harvey Milk, with Diego Luna playing his younger, hotter, less...

Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar is in Mexico currently seeking a lead actress for his next film. But he’s making the whole casting process super secret, prompting certain actresses, like the ever-classy Niurka Marcos, to come forth expressing an interest...

Salma Hayek’s first role after the birth of her daughter will be that of a bearded lady alongside John C. Reilly in the upcoming Cirque du Freak, based on the book series for children: Reilly will play a vampire...

Mexican actor Diego Luna has been tapped [Ed. note: Teeee!] as one of the judges for this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which will take place from January 17 through the 27th. And, truth be told, we couldn’t be happier....

Singer Christina Aguilera and Tom Cruise’s wife Kat(i)e Holmes will co-star in Humboldt Park, a family drama, with John Leguizamo and Freddy Rodriguez rounding out the cast: The filming of family drama Humboldt Park begins next month - just...

Mexican actress Itatí Cantoral is set to play Fidel Castro’s daughter in an upcoming movie about the Cuban dictator’s life. And, hopefully, about his track suits: “I already have the script. It’s about Fidel’s daughter, Alina. I don’t know...

Eva Longoria Parker, which, we’re guessing, is the pseudonym for the noxious and nefarious Eva Longoria (so tricky, that one), is set to star in a new movie that looks super fun and great and… We forgot the name...

The Spanish are always ready to let you know what a failure you are as a rotten apple fallen too far from the mother tree, have sex with farm animals (If you happen to be our cousins in Galicia,...

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar is pairing up with actress Penelope Cruz once again: According to Almodovar, “Broken Hugs” (Los Abrazos Rotos) will feature Cruz, Blanca Portillo and Lluis Homar. You know, we’d never before noticed what a dumb-sounding word...

Mexican actors Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna are teaming up once again in the upcoming film Rudo y Cursi, directed by Carlos Cuarón (brother of Y tu mamá también director Alfonso Cuarón, for which Carlos wrote the screenplay)....

Animator Robert Castillo wrote and directed an amazing documentary short called “S.P.I.C.: The Storyboard of My Life.” It is a poignant and sweet story about growing up in Chelsea, Massachusetts, a tough, mostly Latino neighborhood (miles away in flavor...

Multifaceted and Guanabee dreamboat John Leguizamo is part of the cast of the film adaptation of “Love in the Time of Cholera”. The movie, based on Gabriel García Márquez’s novel, takes place in Cartagena. In an interview with Cinema...

Every once in a while, we hear of a really good movie out of Latin America, and for some reason most of those come from Brazil. Movies like “Black Orpheus” the mythological samba-bustin modern love tragedy; “Central Do Brazil”...

A Brazlian action drama about the war on drugs in Rio’s slums found its way to an early release last week because of how well it did on the black market. Producer Marco Prado announced last Tuesday that “Elite...

If watching the trailer above and thinking about the last time you interviewed for a grueling office job doesn’t constrict your sphincter, check and make sure you have one. The guy who wrote “Vanilla Sky” and “The Sea Inside”...

This year’s installment of the annual “Latinbeat” cinema series, organized by the Film Society at Lincoln Center, features a slew of goodies from reel-importing heavyweights like Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. But hardcore cine-snobs will want to catch rare...