Latinos Don’t Win Oscars

By Adriana Villavicencio, Being Latino Latinos don’t win Oscars. They star in movies, make movies, write movies, design costumes and write scores for movies, but very few have taken the coveted […]

By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic A deeply satisfying feat of storytelling, “Bless Me, Ultima” makes a difficult task look easy. It combines innocence and experience, the darkness […]

By Andrew Stweart, Variety Hispanics continue to be America’s driving force at the multiplex, as the demographic accounted for 25% of Stateside admissions last year, according to a 2012 market […]

From the textmex obsessed imagination of William A. Nericcio La Cucaracha In the film, memorable more for its contribution to the evolution of Technicolor technology than the script or the acting, […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco It’s surprising to think about it, 40 years since it happened, but when Bless Me Ultima was first published it was banned – burned in places. […]

By Melanie Mendez-Gonzales, ¿Qué Means What? I recently heard Patsy Torres Lucero, Ph.D. discuss the findings of her dissertation on a sense of purpose. In summary,  her conclusion is that our sense […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco If you’re like us at NewsTaco, you’ve got the 22nd of this month circled on your calendar. That’s the day of the big release of the […]

From the textmex obsessed imagination of Marc García-Martínez, textmex galleryblog This article was first published in textmex galleryblog. Marc García-Martínez is an associate professor of English at Hancock College. [Photo screenshot […]

By Michael Lopez, Huffington Post Latino Voices Forget Hollywood and New York, right now the world’s greatest film mecca is Park City, Utah. From now until the end of the […]

From the textmex obsessed imagination of Memo Nericcio San Diego State University alum* Raquel Welch (née Jo Raquel Tejada), star of One Million Years B.C., and a regular on the Textmex Galleryblog appears here on […]