01.27.2023 | By Jack Rico |
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival highlighted the amazing Latino talent in the film industry through its diverse selection of films. From heart-touching stories to thought-provoking dramas, viewers were able to watch films directed and written by Latino filmmakers. Read on to see who are the Latino winners at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Read More
01.27.2023 | By Jack Rico |
As the dust settles on the 95th Annual Academy Award nominations, I had a chance to visit my friends at PIX11 News, Marysol Castro and Chris Cimino, to break it down. One thing is clear: the sci-fi epic, Everything Everywhere All at Once, is the film to beat. With a whopping 11 nominations, it has more than any other film this year. Top Gun received 7 nominations, but Tom Cruise was snubbed… again.
01.21.2023 | By SBC Staff |
We are midway through the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and this year, more than ever before, we’ve seen a diverse array of films from Latino filmmakers that have been well-received by audiences and critics alike and it shows that our stories are being heard and appreciated on a larger scale. Here are some bright moments featuring our Latino celebrities at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Read More
03.12.2019 | By Jack Rico |
Diversity and inclusion are plentiful in Disney’s new live-action classic adaptation of Aladdin. Though our two leads, Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott are still a bit unknown to the masses, it’s better to have them cast authentically rather than to have them whitewashed much like Jake Gyllenhaal’s 2009 Prince of Persia video game adaptation. Read More
06.30.2017 | By Jack Rico |
Thank you for listening to episode 38 of the Highly Relevant podcast. This week we’re focusing on Spider-Man: Homecoming and how everyone has been raving about how diverse it is. We’ll talk to our intern Andrea Huswan, who attended the press conference in NYC on our behalf and set off a chain of diversity questions that ultimately got us covered by NewYorkMagazine.com! Read More
06.29.2017 | By Andrea Huswan |
The 1-4-0: #SpiderManHomecoming is hands down the best Spider-Man reboot to date. Read More
06.27.2017 | By Andrea Huswan |
The newest reboot of the beloved Spider-Man tale is just around the corner! Spider-Man: Homecoming is already making quite a buzz worldwide, and for all the right reasons. Producers, Kevin Feige (Marvel) and Amy Pascal (Sony), and director Jon Watts, are making the right and overdue casting choices. Sony and Marvel Studio’s, Spider-Man: Homecoming, is the complete package, not only does it have a star-studded cast, but the cast is multiethnic! Representation is happening and not just as a scene stealer but as a whole, and cohesive narrative. Read More
04.8.2017 | By Jack Rico |
Thank you for listening to episode 27 of the Highly Relevant podcast. io9/Gizmodo’s Beth Elderkin talks diversity in comic books, plus, a chat on the three key problems affecting its industry. Also, we welcome one of the youngest business owners in America, Megan Grassell, to talk to us about how at 17 she came up with an idea that changed the course of her life. Read More
03.5.2017 | By Jack Rico |
This week on the Highly Relevant podcast, I interview Telemundo and NBC’s Jose Diaz-Balart – who was invited to the private Donald Trump meeting with network anchors and reveals to us never-before-heard details on the meeting and what he said to Trump himself. Also, Tommy Torres, a former Ricky Martin producer turned singer, for the first time ever, revealed to me why he and other Latin musicians fear crossing over into the English-language mainstream. That plus my film review of Marvel’s new Wolverine film…LOGAN. Read More
12.31.2016 | By Jack Rico |
Christmas is here and instead of repeating a show, why not give you an original episode based upon 3 marvelous films. Joining me to discuss them is Mike Sargeant from WBAI and seen on FOX News and Lisa Rosman from NY1. The movies are La La Land (3:14), Moonlight (7:15) and Arrival (17:55). We also chat a bit about Martin Scorsese’s Silence, Birth of a Nation and diversity in Hollywood. Read More
