Posts under ‘movies’

Lanzarote—the setting for part of the new Pedro Almodovar movie, “Broken Embraces”—is expected to play a leading role in many tourists’ travel plans next year. For Travelojos readers, the island is more than just a pretty place—it shares close ties with Latin America. By Nick Ball One of the Spanish-owned Canary Islands located just off [...]

Paraiso Travel, a movie about a Colombian couple’s illegal passage to the U.S., was released on DVD earlier this month. It’s also available to watch instantly on Netflix. The film set box office records in Colombia and won awards at multiple film festivals in the U.S. I would rank the movie somewhere between Maria Full [...]

The trailer to Oliver Stone’s latest film South of the Border starts off showing segments of overly-hyped news shows about Hugo Chavez on CNN and Fox. Chavez “is more dangerous to the U.S. than Fidel ever was,” a voice on CNN intones. A former Clinton official on the same show says that Chavez is supporting [...]

As much as I enjoy Mexico, the thought of visiting Mexico City still sends a tremor of fear down my spine. This is especially vexing because the city has become increasingly intriguing to me over the past year or so. But regardless of whether my feelings are rational are not, I’m in pretty good company [...]

Judging from the movie Rudo y Cursi’s (Tough and Corny) pedigree it looks like it has a bright future.  Starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, it promises to be a long anticipated follow up to the super-charged Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001). High expectations are reasonable given that it was Carlos Cuaron, the writer [...]

Sin Nombre, the indy-film shot by an American and performed in Spanish by Latin American actors, was a must see for me. After reading a couple of reviews and searching the movie’s title on Twitter, I knew it was going to be intense. Most of the tweets compared the movie to Slum Dog Millionaire, which [...]