05.31.2013 | By Jack Rico |
For all you fans of the 90’s TV show Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, we hate to break it to you, but any ideas of a Will Smith and friends television reunion on NBC are out of the question. At least that is the case according to Alfonso Ribeiro, one of the co-stars of the show. Read More
05.15.2013 | By Jack Rico |
*Updated December 2025
Dominican and Puerto Rican actress Zoe Saldaña belongs to a rare and privileged club, where a small click of actors films rank in the top 3 box office movies of all time. Avatar is the leader in that category and she is its key co-star. She is literally on top of the world. Read More
05.2.2013 | By Mariana Dussan |
*Updated January 2026
Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby. In the film, the actor plays Jay Gatsby, a fabulous party-giving man with a mysterious past. He comes out of nowhere to buy a mansion on Long Island, sitting directly across the bay from his one true obsession, the now-married Daisy Buchanan. Read More
04.17.2013 | By Jack Rico |
Updated December 2025
When Filly Brown makes its theatrical release on Friday, April 19th, many Latino moviegoers will be waiting to see Jenni Rivera‘s first and last performance on film. But what many will also be seeing is the birth of a brand new star in Puerto Rican actress Gina Rodriguez. From the hood to the big screen, Rodriguez is ready for the lights of Hollywood in a big way and it looks like there is little that can stop her from achieving it.
03.26.2013 | By Jack Rico |
*Updated January 2026
Although Killing Them Softly director Andrew Dominik has been in the business for over a decade, he doesn’t have a long catalog of films to his name. However, the few he has directed truly speak wonders of his talent. His first feature was Chopper, a comedic crime biography based on the story of an Australian criminal. Read More
03.21.2013 | By Jack Rico |
*Updated January 2026
One of the great stories of 2013 was the rise of a young Uruguayan filmmaker who went from obscurity to directing a massive Hollywood horror film. Fede Alvarez saw his dreams come true when he was selected to helm the big-budget reimagining of a genre classic. This Q&A explores how Alvarez transitioned from making short films in South America to leading a major studio production. Read More
03.8.2013 | By Jack Rico |
*Updated December 2025
Perhaps the most popular and talented Mexican actress in cinema right now is Kate del Castillo. Her versatility to do theater, television, and movies, in Spanish or English, has positioned her for a bright future in Hollywood. Her latest movie is K-11 from novice director Jules Stewart, Kristen Stewart’s mother.
02.21.2013 | By Karen Posada |
Nadine Velazquez is definitely a rising star in Hollywood. This Puerto Rican beauty already has a solid TV career with her roles in ‘My Name is Earl’, ‘Hart of Dixie’, and ‘The League’ and now she’s slowly making her way into the big screen after some previous attempts a while ago. Last year her role in Denzel Washington’s ‘Flight’ got everyone’s attention as she is nude in the first scene for a long time and has a lingering role throughout the film. I had the chance to talk to her back when that film opened and now I had the luck to talk to her once more for her movie ‘Snitch’ starring Dwayne Johnson and Susan Sarandon; opening this Friday, February 22nd.
02.20.2013 | By Jack Rico |
Transcription done by Mariana Dussan.
Ric Roman Waugh’s “Snitch” will be known as the movie that saw the evolution of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson from action star to dramatic actor. His perfomance is rooted in acting and not punches thrown or heads cracked and his audience will judge, via the box office, whether he did well or not.
Waugh is confident that they will enjoy it and that the film he created possesses a fine balance between story and entertainment value. His first foray into film was a very lauded movie called “Felon” which received much praise from actors and Hollywood insiders alike. He used to be a former movie stuntman, from a family of stuntmen, who has brought his skill and vision to create some suspenseful action sequences in the denoument of ‘Snitch’. Â Read More
02.18.2013 | By Jack Rico |
‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ the early front-runner in the Oscar race back in December 2012, was the film that garnered the most number of Best Picture wins from varios US film critic organizations. Now after Argo cleaned its clock throughout the televised award season, Venezulan actor Edgar Ramirez, who had a nice chunk of screen time in the film, thinks ZDK has a shot to win it all.
Ramirez, born in the city of San Cristóbal, Venezuela, is the son of a soldier and speaks fluently English, German, Italian and French in addition to his native tongue, Spanish. In 2005, he made his major international motion picture debut playing Choco, Domino Harvey’s love interest in the film Domino, directed by Tony Scott. His next major feature film was Vantage Point directed by Pete Travis. Ramírez has also appeared in Bourne Ultimatum, Che, and Wrath of the Titans amongst others. Read More
