A gritty Los Angeles crime drama that (very) slowly becomes a kind of “Batman in the barrio,” Ben Hernandez Bray’s “El Chicano” seldom amounts to anything more than a crude prototype for the kind of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “El Chicano” opens deep in the heart of East Los Angeles — or East Los, if you’re local — as a group of Latinx kids watches an act ...
Christina Radish is the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade (since 2009), her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in ...
Director Ben Hernandez Bray thinks now is a perfect time for the release of his East Los Angeles set quasi-superhero movie, El Chicano. With families being separated at the border and the growing ...
Christina Radish is the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade (since 2009), her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in ...
As “Avengers: Endgame” breaks global box office records, a new independent film aims to make its mark with audiences as the first Latino superhero picture with an all-Hispanic cast. Opening in 650 ...
A Latino detective turns into a masked vigilante in 'El Chicano,' Ben Hernandez Bray's violent thriller set in East Los Angeles. By Frank Scheck El Chicano is being referred to as the first Latino ...
In the wake of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s unprecedented box office dominance with a franchise in which no title characters are Latino, seasoned stuntman-turned-director Ben Hernandez Bray makes ...
This amateurish superhero origin story only underscores the urgent need for major Hollywood studios to do right by Latinx audiences. As it stands, “El Chicano” feels less like a cut-rate version of a ...