Carlos Aguilar
Film Critic and Journalist at Freelance
Film critic. 🇲🇽 DACA. #BlackLivesMatter Bylines: @latimesent, @nytimes, @ebertvoices, @indiewire. Member @LAFilmCritics
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The 10 movies we are most looking forward to watching at the L.A. Latino International Film Festival
1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Carlos Aguilar
(Elana Marie / De Los; Photos from Latino Film Institute)Forget Memorial Day weekend. Summer movie-loving begins with the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, five days of films pertinent to the experiences of U.S. Latinos, as well as a wide-ranging collection of productions from across Latin America. The event is often one of the few chances L.A. audiences get to see some of these stories.
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Carlos Aguilar
Walk into any Disney theme park and you won’t go long before seeing the face of Stitch, the rambunctiously charming, big-eared, koala-like blue creature from 2002’s “Lilo & Stitch.” Apart from a few select princesses and Mickey himself, Stitch has become one of the studio’s hugest moneymakers — and it’s easy to see why.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Carlos Aguilar
Disney places 45 Venezuelan workers on leave after Trump’s Supreme Court battle stripped them of legal protections: ‘It’s very distressing’Almost four dozen Venezuelan workers who had temporary protected status have been put on leave by Disney after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the …
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Carlos Aguilar
“Big-time flattered” is how Benicio del Toro describes the moment he received an unexpected call from filmmaker Wes Anderson about playing a painter in his 2021 ensemble piece “The French Dispatch.”“I was almost like, ‘Wait, does he know he’s talking to me?’ Del Toro, casually dressed in a puffer jacket and a cap, says with a puzzled expression conveying his genuine shock at a Beverly Hills hotel. “Because my movies are a little bit different than his. In most of my movies, people get killed.
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3 weeks ago |
moviemaker.com | Carlos Aguilar
Emotionally depleted following his 2019 drama Waves, writer-director Trey Edward Shults struggled to find the motivation to take on another arduous filmmaking venture. “I didn’t even want to watch a movie, let alone try to make one,” Shults says.
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Kind of unexpected, but Alice Wu’s SAVING FACE in @Criterion is such wonderful news. Excited for this lovely film to come back to the foreground. https://t.co/pjAnH1VxLb
RT @Carlos_Film: Hello friends! I sat down with Benicio del Toro to talk about THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME, and the rare lead role created specif…
LEFT-HANDED GIRL premiered at #Cannes today. It’s the first solo directorial effort by director Shih-Ching Tsou, co-written and edited by Sean Baker. They made TAKE OUT together two decades ago. I had the chance to review her new film for @ThePlaylistNews: https://t.co/jyOsXoGq9P