Writer, editor, critic, movie lover, Doctor Who fan, proud to be a boricua, a cubano and a gallego. Curmudgeon extraordinaire.
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Alejandro A. Riera retweeted
Avec Marie Madeleine, @GessicaGeneus remporte le prix « Hugo d’or » à Chicago et devient la première femme noire à recevoir le prix « New Directors » du Festival international du film de Chicago depuis sa création. Elle a confirmé la nouvelle à Chokarella.
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Major wins for Latin American cinema at @chifilmfest this year. Particularly happy to see MARIE MADELEINE take the top award in the New Directors Competition. You can read my review here: thirdcoastreview.com/film-tv…
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My final contribution to @ThirdCoastRvw's coverage of the @chifilmfest is a capsule review of the Spanish film SAINTS screening for the last time tonight at 8 pm at New City.
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Visiting the parental units in Deltona, Florida tomorrow to spend some days with them and celebrate Mom's birthday. Bringing some DVDs from the public library to watch with Dad who hasn't gone out to the movies since my sister passed away 5 years ago.
Final screenings for ANA, EN PASSANT today at 2:30 p.m. and for MARIE MADELEINE at 5:30 p.m. (Marie Madeleine's is on STANDBY which means all advance tickets are sold and that lines open as early as one hour prior to showtime & tickets will be sold on first come-first serve.)
My @chifilmfest coverage for @ThirdCoastRvw continues with two films centered on the Afro-Latin American experience: Fernanda Salgado's ANA, EN PASSANT and Gessica Geneus' MARIE MADELEINE, both screening today for the first time:
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Alejandro A. Riera retweeted
this, to me, is Digger's fatal flaw--the central conceit only makes sense if the play is actually good, but the mainstream success of good art is not something AGI can conceptualize
with NYFF over I caught on some of the fall movies i didn’t have time to write up. 5k words, 5 reviews! why i *hated* Digger and The Social Reckoning, thought Primetime was richer than ppl said, quite liked Other Mommy and quite loved History of Concrete api.omarshehata.me/substack-…
My @chifilmfest coverage for @ThirdCoastRvw continues with two films centered on the Afro-Latin American experience: Fernanda Salgado's ANA, EN PASSANT and Gessica Geneus' MARIE MADELEINE, both screening today for the first time:
thirdcoastreview.com/film-tv…
In Issa Lopez we trust!
Holy fucking shit!
This might be the best season since Season 2
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My coverage of the 62nd @chifilmfest continues, this time for @ThirdCoastRvw with a capsule review of the low-key Mexican comedy EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOISE which pokes fun at one of my favorite subjects: patronizing (mostly men) Latin American intellectuals.
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Alejandro A. Riera retweeted
Just to be clear, I am not leaving The Batman Part II. I am profoundly grateful to Steven for coming to my aid during this challenging time to help me finish principal photography. Thank you to all for your concern and well wishes. 🦇
So, hear me out hear me out...Justice League by Steven Soderbergh written and shot in the style of his Ocean 11-12-13 films.
Steven Soderbergh is coming on to help finish principal photography the final weeks of DC Studios’ and Matt Reeves’ ‘The Batman Part II.’
The news comes after production was paused on the film so that Reeves could attend to a family matter.
More details here: deadline.com/2026/10/steven-…
First full day of screenings at the Chicago International Film Festival; I have a couple of recommendations, with more to follow via @ThirdCoastRvw.
My latest contribution to @cinelandiaUSA highlights two films from, when it comes to Latin American cinema, one of the best kept secrets that should no longer secret: the emergence of Costa Rica as a. cinematic powerhouse. Screening at @chifilmfest:
The Cuban version of this scene? You are handed a nice little cup of sugary cafecito and a loud conversation accompanied by exaggerated hand gestures waking the entire household up will soon follow.
My latest contribution to @cinelandiaUSA highlights two films from, when it comes to Latin American cinema, one of the best kept secrets that should no longer secret: the emergence of Costa Rica as a. cinematic powerhouse. Screening at @chifilmfest:
The Chicago International Film Festival (@chifilmfest) has programmed two Costa Rican features for the first time in 15 years: Valentina Maurel’s “Forever Your Maternal Animal” (Siempre soy tu animal materno) & Neto Villalobos Brenes’ “Love Is the Monster” (Amor es el monstruo).
"The premise puts a hardboiled private investigator named Teq in a version of Los Angeles still under the rule of a thriving Aztec Empire."
Sold!
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