03.6.2019 | By SBC Staff |
For the first time, the famous novel Cien Años de Soledad has come to the screen. Netflix has adapted Gabriel García Márquez’s greatest work, One Hundred Years of Solitude, into a major television series. Read More
07.30.2018 | By Jack Rico |
Colombia is a country known for its salsa and vallenato. Vallenato is the folkloric, poetic music of its coast which its singer/songwriter Jose Dario Martinez Acosta, aka Chabuco, has been listening to since he was a child due to his father’s influence, the legendary guitarist Hugues Martinez. With his fourth solo album titled Encuentro, he mixes the sounds of vallenato from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, with jazz and bossa nova, resulting in a beautiful and unique sound of Latin Jazz.
12.18.2017 | By Jack Rico |
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I can’t believe this movie is actually going to be released. When I lived in Colombia as a kid, I used get sick a lot and one of the most satisfying things I used to ask my Aunt Doris to bring me to the hospital to make me feel better were Condorito comics. Those PLOP! moments were everything for me. I would laugh so much from the drawings, the charatcters, the dialogue, it was all so funny to me. Hopefully this movie is just as hilarious as I remember them as a kid. Read More
08.18.2017 | By SBC Staff |
We’re sending our love and prayers to the people of Barcelona who suffered a senseless terrorist attack. But on a lighter note, this is probably one of the best podcast shows we’ve done. We chat with Mesfin Fekadu, music editor of the Associated Press, who broke the story about Despacito not being nominated at this year’s VMAs. Did this happen because of cultural bias? We dissect all the variables, along with some of our thoughts on whether MTV should start playing Spanish-language music videos. Then I talk to Colombia’s hottest band of the moment, Bomba Estéreo, about their new album AYO, music and race, coca leaves, payola in the music business, and their love for the street language of Spanglish. Read More
08.4.2017 | By Jack Rico |
One of the news anchors of Univision News’ primetime team, Maria Elena Salinas, is leaving the company after 30 years at the desk. Her last day will be at the end of 2017. Word is Jorge Ramos will be partnerless until a new female anchor is announced. Salinas will also leave behind “Aqui y Ahora,” Univision’s equivalent of CBS’ 60 Minutes. Read More
03.2.2017 | By SBC Staff |
On March 24, Netflix will launch the first season of the anticipated Mexican original series, Ingobernable. The thriller and drama series will debut at 12am and feature a total of 15 episodes that will tell the story of a Mexican Presidential family and how in a matter of seconds everything can change. Kate del Castillo (Emilia Urquiza) and Erik Hayser (Diego Nava) portray the First Lady and President of Mexico. Emilia Urquiza, is the First Lady of Mexico with big plans to improve conditions for the country through her commitment to fighting for peace. As Emilia starts to lose faith in her husband, President Diego Nava, she finds herself at a crossroad where she will need to find a way to deal with a great challenge and uncover the truth. Emilia is a woman with a strong personality, conviction and clear ideas that make her capable of doing anything: making a president, leaving a president and killing a president. Read More
02.28.2017 | By Jack Rico |
In this episode of the Highly Relevant podcast, we interview the female director of the hit bilingual film ‘Everybody Loves Somebody,’ Catalina Aguilar Mastretta, about creating bilingual and bicultural cinema for a new generation of US Hispanics. Also, the Oscars are this Sunday and who better to talk to about the state of multiculturalism at the Academy Awards than April Reign, the creator of the #OscarsSoWhite movement, plus, my review of Jordan Peele’s black horror film “Get Out”. Read More
02.23.2017 | By Jack Rico |
Universal Latino has released a new clip from The Fate and the Furious titled “Honeymoon,” which will be airing during on Univision’s Premio Lo Nuestro award event tonight. At the beginning of the video Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello (formerly of Fifth Harmony) appears with Colombian reggaeton star, J Balvin, plus Pitbull for a new track called “Hey Ma” in “The Fate and the Furious” soundtrack releasing this April. Read More
01.7.2017 | By Jack Rico |
There is a Spanish-language version to me. I do a weekly Spanish-language Movie and Broadway segment on NY’s Telemundo 47. Read More
12.29.2016 | By Jack Rico |
Si quieren saber cuales son las mejores películas que más se destacaron en su genero, aquí les tengo las 5 mejores películas en su genero en mi opinión. Read More
