03.18.2026 | By SBC Staff |
Last year, we curated the 25 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025 Featuring Hispanic Actors. This year, we expanded the list to include Latino writers, filmmakers, and producers. The difference in a year has been that Latino talent is now being included in shaping how movies get made for Hollywood’s biggest studio films. Read More
02.14.2026 | By Jack Rico |
*Updated March 2026
The 1-4-0: Guillermo del Toro, who gave us Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water, finally realizes a vision 30 years in the making. You can feel the weight of that patience in every frame. Jacob Elordi steals it from Oscar Isaac. Read More
03.4.2021 | By Jack Rico |
Disney’s ‘Raya and the Last Dragon‘ will be the first major motion-picture to be released after New York City theaters finally re-open at only 25% capacity this weekend. Though it won’t be an accurate assessment of the potential of all NYC and LA theaters fully re-opening, it will give Hollywood executives a sense for the public’s appetite to see new releases on the big screen, rather than streaming. If ‘Raya’ overdelivers, then we can assume we’re going to have a great summer. But if it underperforms… then we can surmise that people still aren’t comfortable being closed in a room with strangers for two straight hours. At the center of all this attention is Carlos Lopéz Estrada, co-director of the film, who sat with us to discuss a wide array of topics including what he learned as a director and storyteller at Disney, his thoughts on being Latino and directing an Asian film, and why he believes we’re entering a new era of Latino superheroes. Read More
07.1.2017 | By Jack Rico |
The ending of Beatriz at Dinner leaves viewers with a deliberately ambiguous final image. Director Miguel Arteta explained to ShowBizCafe how he reads that ending and why Salma Hayek’s Beatriz remains the emotional center of the film.
This is our exclusive Q&A with Puerto Rican director Miguel Arteta discussing the ending of Beatriz at Dinner. Our conversation spanned some memorable answers about his Puerto Rican heritage and the Latino experience in America; how he believes without a doubt The Matrix is the first multicultural blockbuster film created in Hollywood, and, yes, that controversial movie ending. Read More
05.13.2017 | By Jack Rico |
*Updated November 2025
The 1-4-0: Ricardo de Montreuil’s Lowriders leaves the cliched gang and drug storylines to the side and focuses on creating characters true to life through the lens of the rich culture of East LA.
04.29.2016 | By Jack Rico |
One of the best movies to come out of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is Between Us by Mexican-Colombian director Rafael Palacio Illingworth. The film stars Ben Feldman, Olivia Thirlby, Adam Goldberg, and Analeigh Tipton and centers around a young married couple who slowly start to question the sexual and moral commitment they have to their marriage. Read More
12.5.2014 | By SBC Staff |
*Updated 2026
If you fell down a Reddit rabbit hole looking for the absolute best movies to watch high, you can stop scrolling. We got the list.
With cannabis now legal in much of the country, we thought it was time to update our Best Movies to Watch While Stoned list for a whole new generation of cannabis users, movie fans, and doomscrollers looking for cerebral films that will completely rearrange their brains.
03.25.2014 | By Mariana Dussan |
*Updated November 2025
This week at a roundtable, I had the opportunity to chat with Diego Luna, director of the upcoming film Cesar Chavez. During the half hour-long segment the passionate Luna shared details of his four-and-a-half-year journey and the obstacles he had to overcome in order to bring the story of a nearly forgotten Mexican leader, Cesar Chavez, to fruition.
04.5.2013 | By Jack Rico |
Updated April 2026
Oceans of blood, cringing gore, clenching suspense and some good ol’ laughs for the road make the Evil Dead remake from Uruguayan writer/director Fede Alvarez the best horror movie of 2013 so far. Read More
11.5.2012 | By Jack Rico |
As you might have heard, Disney purchased Lucasfilm for 4 billion dollars, and with it, the Star Wars and Indiana Jones saga. The big talks to come out of that deal is that Disney is gun-ho on continuing the Star Wars saga, ergo, the seventh chapter of the series. For now Indy is out of the conversation. Read More
