The Christmas weekend usually brings with it one of the year’s most exciting release weekends. Most studios like to cap off the year with one of two types of releases; something that will draw in the whole family or something that will hopefully become an Oscar contender. This year is [...]

Nothing breeds comedy better than adversity. Making it to the top often means digging yourself out of the hole. The deeper the hole, the longer the climb, and the stronger you are when you finally make it out. Very few comedians have had to follow the light quite like Aida [...]

For many Latino migrants living in the United States, the only thing harder than making a livable wage is figuring out how to send some of it back to their families. Until recently, Latinos sending money abroad have been dependent on short-term banking solutions like money orders and check cashing, [...]

We have made it to the twelfth, final, and best month of the year. As the first real post-pandemic year since 2020, these last twelve months of cinema were very different from a lot of what we’ve seen in the last few years. Writers, directors, actors, and just about everyone [...]

Yes, we know, it’s not Friday. But holiday releases are tricky like that. When it comes to the big ones, like Thanksgiving and Christmas, days off from school and work means more butts in seats halfway through the week. The late-year holiday weekends are a total grab bag, offering broadly [...]

We made it! We are officially making our way to the first, stacked-as-hell Friday of the Fall/Winter season. The late summer antics are over. From here to the end of the year, audiences will be all but guaranteed at least one masterpiece per week. For movie lovers, there’s nothing better [...]

As the year comes to an end, we’re getting ready to cover the November-December awards season where studios stuff their best releases into the last two months of the year in order to qualify for Oscar voting. It’s a bit of a tricky system and one that explains why movies [...]

This is maybe the quietest weekend we’ve ever covered during our run of Friday Film Roundups. Sometimes, there are two, even three, big movies coming out in one weekend. Sometimes, there’s only one. But then there’s the rare weekend, like this one, where nothing coming out looks like a movie [...]

There was a bittersweet undertone to this year’s Bushwig festival back in early September. The yearly celebration of the local drag community was started in Brooklyn more than a decade ago by queens Horrorchata and Babes La Beija. The organizers were inspired by another, now-defunct drag festival called Wigstock. Eventually, [...]

Alright, everybody, we made it. Halloweekend is here and, unsurprisingly, there are a slew of horror movies coming out, big and small. Shudder, the streaming service dedicated to horror, is having a field day this weekend, releasing two of the most exciting genre offerings we’ve seen all year. Elsewhere, we [...]