“It is what it is,” the publisher of a now defunct Latino magazine used to tell…
Author: Alejandro Riera
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Someone, I believe it may have been fellow 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer, asks Mike Wallace…
Movie Review: Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino has claimed in recent interviews that he has one more film left in him.…
Movie Review: Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
No one can question Toni Morrison’s status as a literary giant. With a battering ram, she…
Movie Review: Late Night
Late Night may be, on the surface, a conventional workplace comedy, one that bears more than…
Movie Review: Long Shot
Romantic comedies live and die by the chemistry of its protagonists and Charlize Theron and Seth…
Movie Review: Widows
Steve McQueen pulls one hell of a cinematic juggling act with Widows, his follow-up to his…
BlacKkKlansman: a Molotov Cocktail Flung at Multiplexes
2018 has been a great year for American political films made by people of color. There…
“Blindspotting” and “Sorry to Bother You”: From Oakland with Love
I haven’t been able to keep Daveed Diggs’ face out of my head ever since I…