The movie that tells the inspirational and tragic story of Tejano music star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez has been inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. “Selena,” the 1997 biographical film that’s a longtime fan favorite, is one of 25 films selected this year that explore “stories from the nation’s diverse communities that
On Oct. 21, on a movie set in New Mexico, what was supposed to be fiction reached into reality in the most destructive of ways By The Associated Press December 15, 2021, 2:53 AM • 5 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article THE BACKGROUND: On Oct. 21, on a movie set in
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” had its premiere Monday night in Hollywood and across the country at different press screenings. I attended a press screening Monday night, and here’s my immediate reaction the movie. What happens in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’? The story of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is pretty simple. Taking place after the events
The original 1961 film won 10 Oscars, including Best Picture. But for decades this retelling of “Romeo and Juliet” through the lens of White and Puerto Rican gangs in New York has been panned by Puerto Ricans who felt insulted by the way characters from the island were portrayed. The songs are largely the same,
This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, covering such titles as Oppenheimer, Shang-Chi 2, and Disney’s Strange World. This WEEK’S TOP STORY FLORENCE PUGH AND RAMI MALEK JOIN CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S OPPENHEIMER (Photo by Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection) Ever since it was first announced in September as the next film from
NEW YORK — Simon Rex, in town for the recent Gotham Awards, where he was nominated for outstanding lead performance in “Red Rocket,” was comparing today’s pandemic-scarred New York with the city he knew in the 1990s as a VJ on MTV. “Times Square was like pimps and sex booths and then it became Disneyland.