Xolo Maridueña received two phone calls the day he found out he’d been cast in “Cobra Kai,” the spinoff series set three decades after the 1984 “The Karate Kid” movie ended. Maridueña’s younger sister Oshún Ramirez was a voice actor on Disney’s “Future-Worm!,” his mother, Carmelita Ramirez-Sanchez, leads the Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory, and his father, Omar G. Ramirez, is …
The year that saw superheroes getting horribly tangled in a loop of flops. Jason Momoa’s new adventure, Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom, opened in the Christmas weekend riding a mighty budget of over $205 million but managed to collect $120.1 million worldwide in four days. Marvel Studios kicked off MCU Phase Five with Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania in February …
Mike Alfaro, Millennial Lotería creator Mike Alfaro A few years ago, Alfaro was looking through cards for Lotería — the Bingo-style Mexican card game — and thought the folksy, decades-old imagery from the classic Don Clemente edition seemed outdated. The CalArts graduate’s first solo exhibition, “Border Bang,” debuted at Chinatown’s Gregorio Escalante Gallery in 2016 — but these days, he …
Latino superheroes are saving the day in Hollywood Enlarge this image toggle caption Mike Gallegos for NPR Mike Gallegos for NPR Latinos are a big part of the U.S. box office, and during the pandemic, they helped keep cinemas open. Actor Xolo Maridueña stars as Jaime Reyes, who becomes "Blue Beetle" when he's implanted with super-powered alien armor. Alcocer says, …
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