Having conquered playing a black man inTropic of Thunder, Robert Downey, Jr. is now starring in The Soloist as Los Angeles Times journalist Steve Lopez who wrote a successful column about a homeless violinist named Nathaniel Anthony Ayer in...

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...

Oh, poo. No one wants to go halfsies with Hugo Chavez on Danny Glover’s new film about Haitian patriot Toussaint L’Ouverture. Remember the sweetheart deal that’s been in the making since last summer? But Danny doesn’t think it’s because...

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.)...

As if getting a sneak preview of Che wasn’t an exciting enough way to end the week, someone caught the extended trailer for Benicio Del Toro’s other much-awaited vehicle The Wolfman on video last weekend at Comic-Con in San...

The leaked trailer for Che El Argentino just landed in our inbox. You’ve never known how badly you want to hump Benicio Del Toro until you hear him speak Argentinean. (Provided you’re not actually Argentinean.) Could the leak have...

Spoiled, WASP, fuck-up makes it to the White House—it’s the stuff American dreams are made of. It’s also the subject of a new Oliver Stone film called W. starring Josh Brolin as the misguided, young son of an insensitive...

Sacha Baron Cohen has now spent enough time in Hollywood to develop some ironic racist jokes about this continent’s darker people. He’s slated to produce and possibly star in a new film about a Latino ambulance chaser in an...

First off, American Teen looks incredibly interesting and we can’t wait to see it. However — and it’s a substantial however — we’ve got to wonder where Latino teens fit into the landscape of the American teenager. Movies about...

This video combines our fear of Nazis with our fear of nervous dogs and what could be more pleasant than that this early in the morning? It’s the German trailer for Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Because Disney is not content...

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...

Have you guys heard that last night at the Sex And The City movie premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York, hundreds of young Scary Sadshaws™ were lined up with tickets in hand for like a whole...

Did you guys see How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer, yet? It’s changing the face of Latino American cinema! Know why? Cuz it has abuelita sex! The movie’s power is its honest exploration of women’s sexuality. There is...

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...

Not content to let boyfriend and fellow Spaniard Javier Bardem hog all the Oscar nominations, actress Penelope Cruz is set to voice a guinea pig in the upcoming G-Force movie: Spanish actress Penelope Cruz has signed on to lend...

In the future, the Mexican border wall may successfully eliminate the presence of all illegal aliens, but you can bet your sweet bippy, American know-how will find a way to exploit those workers from the comfort of their home...

By now we’ve all heard about the prominent Latino actor who is making quite an impression on folks with his performance in the Oscar-bound Cohen Brothers hit, “No Country For Old Men.” We’re speaking, of course, of former Texas...

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...

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....

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...

Canana Films, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna’s production company, is shooting a film called Sin Nombre, which will follow Central-American immigrants as they cross Mexico on their journey to the U.S: Canana Film’s latest project is entitled “Sin...

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)....

Lourdes “Lola” Leon, Madonna’s daughter (Who is, as you might know, part Cuban. Which parts? The good ones.) is apparently in talks to appear in the next Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and The Perks of Nepotism: A source...

Mexican Sexican actress Mayrin Villanueva joins franchise vets Daniel Craig and Dame Judi Dench as the latest Bond girl. Casting directors had been specifically searching for a Latina Bond girl, as the 22nd Bond film, currently in pre-production, is...

Every dreadlock rocking white boy’s favorite t-shirt image, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, is getting yet another movie made about his life (as you might already know), this time starring Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro. Hopefully, Benicio will do a...

Director, writer, actor and daughter-marrier Woody Allen is shooting his latest film in Barcelona with Spanish actor Javier Bardem. The film allows Allen yet another opportunity to try and fool audiences into thinking attractive women, like Scarlett Johansson and...

A celluloid version of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera opens in theaters November 16! Excited? No? Ok. But, come on, its directed by Mike Newell, who did “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Harry Potter...

A blogger points out that the title for this new horror flick “P2” translates literally into “Pe-Dos.” That’s either very clever or very juvenile. Either way, we approve. We can’t wait to see how this is marketed down south....

Last Saturday we attended an advanced screening of the film “Things We Lost in the Fire” from Danish director Susanne Bier and starring Benicio Del Toro (who looked very Che at the screening, no doubt from production on his...

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”...

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...

A recent post on DeputyDog about the worst movie accents of all time is conspicuously lacking in any mention of bad Spanish accents, but the comments board got us started on a pretty good list of our own. We...

The reviews are in and it’s clear the Hector Lavoe biopic, “El Cantante,” starring Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez, is not going to win any Oscars. It could, however, get into the Guinness Book Of World Records for being...

Apparently Jessica Alba “almost shows” her lady flower in the new Dane Cook flick, “Good Luck Chuck”—whatever that means. So says MTV, anyway. The fact that Dane Cook is in the movie explains why we’ve stayed far, far away...

If you happen to be in New York this weekend, the HBO sponsored New York International Latino Film Festival is showing this little number on Sunday, “638 Ways To Kill Castro.” From the site: […] 638 Ways to Kill...

Poor Paula Abdul. She works so hard (sniffle) and she gets so screwed over (snot, snot) and it’s just not fair (gasp)! She was supposed to choreograph, design the clothing and design the dolls for the new Bratz movie...

Some Latin Americans are calling for a boycott of The Simpsons Movie because of the producers’ choice not to use the original Spanish speaking cast to voice the characters for the Latin American dub. According to blogger Latina Viva,...