Antonio Jaramillo and Anna in the Tropics
Antonio Jaramillo in Anna in the Tropics
We don’t cover live theatre often, but when a friend is involved, we have to support.
Our friend and supporter Antonio Jaramillo (Mayans M.C, Shades of Blue), is starring in Cuban-American playwright Nilo Cruz’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Anna in the Tropics, Sultry heat and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina combine in this production, sparking rich fantasies, broken dreams, passion and adultery.
Jaramillo is a great lover of the theater, even though most people only know him from film and television. Any chance he gets, he’s on the stage. Anna in the Tropics is his latest work adventure.
I asked him about the character he was playing, the challenges to the role, and what he liked about the character. He said, “I’m playing the role of Cheché! Originally I was going to play the role of Juan Julian “The Lector” but after reviewing the play I thought the role of Cheché is more fun and more challenging as he completely unravels within the story.”
We even got in a small update on Mayans M.C., the hit spin-off of Sons of Anarchy where Jaramillo plays “Michael ‘Riz’ Ariza”. He told us, “Literally the second week after we open the play, Anna In The Tropics, we begin shooting the second season of Mayans M.C.! In other words, I am going crazy trying to navigate the show and the play.”
Jaramillo on Mayans M.C. set
Anna In The Tropics also stars Steve Wilcox, Jill Remez, Presciliana Esparolini, Javi Mulero, Jade Santana, Christopher Cedeno, and Byron Quiros. It is directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera and produced by Martha Demson and the Openfist Theatre Company.
You can check it out at Openfist Theatre in Atwater Village, 3269 Casitas Ave, Los Angeles CA 90039. For more info and tickets, check out openfist.org. Opens May 3 and runs through June 8. — A.O.
GIVEAWAY! Advance Screening Passes for The Hustle
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Giveaway! In the Los Angeles area, we have 100 pairs of an advance screening of The Hustle.
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GIVEAWAY! Advance Screening Passes for El Chicano
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Giveaway! In 10 CITIES, we have advance screenings of El Chicano for Wednesday, May 1!
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El Chicano, in theaters May 3.
Giveaway!, Miss Bala!
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We have FIVE Copies of Miss Bala for FIVE lucky winners.
Gina Rodriguez (Annihilation, Jane the Virgin) takes charge in the high-octane action adventure, Miss Bala. Also starring Ismael Cruz-Córdova (Mary Queen of Scots), Anthony Mackie (Avengers: Infinity War), and Matt Lauria (Friday Night Lights).
Miss Bala, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital comes loaded with over 60 minutes of bonus material, including eight deleted and extended scenes, wardrobe and rehearsal footage with insights by director Catherine Hardwicke.
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We’ll draw the winners at 6P (PT), Friday, May 3! Please follow and share our social media pages: Twitter, Facebook, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.
On Digital now. Coming to Blu-ray™ and DVD April 30 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
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GIVEAWAY! ! Advance Screening Passes for UGLYDOLLS
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Giveaway! Perfect Strangers!
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We have FIVE Digital Codes of Perfect Strangers for FIVE lucky winners.
The over-the-top comedy about the secrets we all carry in our pockets, Perfect Strangers, arrives on Digital and On Demand April 16 from Lionsgate. Starring Cecilia Suárez, Bruno Bichir, Mariana Treviño, Manuel García-Rulfo, Miguel Rodarte, and Ana Claudia Talancón.
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Shazam!: Everything Anyone Could Want in a Superhero Movie.
An irresistibly charming and fun “family” superhero movie, in every sense of the word.
Let’s face it: superhero movies have gotten more than a little dark and dangerous since the sunny days of Christopher Reeve and Superman: The Movie. Some of those more serious shows are great, from the very darkest to the truly absurd (we’re looking at you, Deadpool!), but it’s truly hard to think of a single superhero movie of the last few years that you could safely take your under-ten children to enjoy. The latest couple of Spider-Man movies, maybe, both live action and animated, but other than that…slim pickin’s.
Which is one of the many reasons that Shazam! Is such an unalloyed pleasure to behold. It’s smart, it’s cheerful, it holds your interest from the first scene to the last, and it truly is a film for the whole family…and not just because the language is mild and the action is more exciting than violent (both of which are true), but because it’s also about family itself, both the kinds you inherit and the kids you make on your own. And there are enough nods to the kid in all of us to keep the youngest viewer to the oldest engaged and delighted, beginning to end.
You don’t have to know anything at all about the eighty-year history of Billy Batson and Captain Marv–sorry, Shazam (it’s all very complicated and legal; trust us, you’re better off if you don’t). You can safely sit back and relax from the minute that Billy, our plucky but determined young fourteen-year-old, shows up and starts causing trouble: you are in good hands, with a tight, funny, and easy-to-enjoy script from Henry Gayden and Darren Lemke in a film directed by David F. Sandberg, who knows how to tell a story without a stutter or a shadow. (And let’s not forget Bill Parker and C.C. Beck, who created the character back in 1939, or Jerry Ordway, whose reboot–one among many–of the whole “family” in the early 1990’s is really the basis for this version.)
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Starring Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Oscar Isaac, Billy Dee Williams, Naomi Ackie, Joonas Suotamo, and Anthony Daniels. Director/writer J.J. Abrams.
Pet Sematary: Where Good Books Go To Die
A weak and unsatisfying script wastes strong performances and high production values in a wayward and manipulative remake of a Stephen King horror classic.
Way back in the Dark Ages–also known as 1983–Stephen King wrote a haunting, complex, and downright creepy book about grief, death, and madness called Pet Sematary. It was made into a truncated and pretty darn cheesy movie in 1989 that reduced this surprisingly challenging novel to smarmy drive-in movie status (no offense, Joe Bob), but managed to appealed to the popular imagination enough that some key moments from the movie–the scowling little boy with the scalpel, the evil, mud-slathered cat, the latter-day Herman Munster intoning “Sometahms, Dead is Bettah”–persisted for decades.
So you can understand Paramount Studio’s desire to dip into that well again, especially in this, The Year of Stephen King (it’s literally hard to keep track of all the King and King Family-related projects that are premiering in the next few months and more are being added almost daily). What we are presented in the new Pet Sematary adaptation, however–in a script from Matt Greenberg and Jeff Buhler, directed by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmeyer–is a disjointed, confused and pointlessly manipulative mess that wastes some beautiful cinematography and sound editing, as well as the considerable acting talents, most notably young Jeté Laurence and national treasure John Lithgow.
Only the barest bones of the original story are still visible. Pet Sematary tells us about the Creed Family–Lewis the doctor dad, Rachel the wife with no visible career or friends, tennish-year-old Ellie and three-ish-like Gage, who move into a big ol’ house on the edge of the forest near the college town of Ludlow, Maine. Shortly after their arrival, they discover a homegrown cemetery for pets in the land behind their home; soon their new next door neighbor Jud Crandall eventually shows them the cemetery beyond the cemetery, where the animals that are buried in that “sour earth” come back to life…but when they do, they come back real mean. Then when one of the Creed children dies in a horrible highway accident…and one of the Creed parents wants that child back, no matter what the cost…and bad things begin to happen.
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