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Latinos Don’t Win Oscars
By Adriana Villavicencio, Being Latino Latinos don’t win Oscars. They star in movies, make movies, write movies, design costumes and write scores for movies, but very few have taken the coveted […]
Latino Oscar Nominees: Few Latinos And Some Surprises
By Huffington Post Latino Voices Despite disappointment among Latinos over the lack of Hispanics in this year’s Academy Awards nominations, many celebrate that four of their best in the film industry […]
Will the Next Generation of Latinos Actually be Latino?
By Daniel Cubias, Being Latino My wife is pregnant. Yes, it’s pretty great news. Our daughter is due in January. We’ve never been parents, so by next summer, I’ll be one […]
Why Latinos Should Go See “Casa De Mi Padre”
By Jose Cruz, OurTiempo.com There has been no question to how this site has felt about this Friday’s release of the new film Casa De Mi Padre. Even before the first […]
Latinos Make Up Majority Of Inmates In Federal Prisons
By Cindy Casares This year, we’re kicking off Hispanic Heritage Month with the disheartening news that Latinos, for the first time in American history, comprise the majority of inmates in […]
I’ll Never Understand Surprise At Stereotypes In The Movies
I remember when the groundbreaking film “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” first came out, there was outrage. Lots of it, insisting that it was somehow a discredit to Latinos everywhere. Personally, I […]
Could Latinos Save Hollywood?
When I was a kid in Nuevo Laredo I watched American movies, in English, with Spanish subtitles. It drove me crazy. I was perfectly fluent (and literate) in English and […]
Why Do Latino Movies Suck?
Latino films created by Hollywood for popular consumption are terrible. That is a fact, but it’s also the subject of an interesting post by Alonso Duralde for Slate.com. What he […]
Another Reason to Loathe Latinos/as: They Cause Marital Strife!
By William “Memo” Nericcio Where is Myra Mendible (From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture) when you need her? Hit the image for the rest of […]
Today’s Latino News Headlines – 8/27/18
Today’s Latino news headlines, curated for the NewsTaco community: Irony: I saw this movie this past weekend and the plot is archetypal telenovela. It’s like a Selena song. ‘Crazy Rich” […]