Life has a way of humbling us with challenges we never expect. For my family, those challenges came one after another — first ...
Welcome to Como Somos, a recurring series about Latinx music in North Texas that was originally published on the website Central Track. Como Somos, a phrase that translates to “as we are” in Spanish, ...
With a screenplay refreshingly free of clichés and confidently directed by Irish filmmaker John Butler, Papi Chulo is the kind of film for which descriptive adjectives like modest, poignant, touching ...
John Butler's engaging dramedy pivots on the improbable friendship between an Anglo TV weatherman and a Mexican day laborer in L.A. In “Papi Chulo,” a scrupulously low-key and unassumingly ...
Well-intentioned but at times insensitive, “Papi Chulo” is a complicated movie. It wants so badly to do the right thing when the situation is all wrong. Written and directed by John Butler (“Handsome ...
John Butler, Irish director of The Stag and Handsome Devil, strays into hazardous territory with his first American film. Papi Chulo concerns the unusual relationship between a depressed Anglo ...
A lonely weatherman hires a day laborer to be his pal in John Butler’s racially naïve buddy comedy. By Teo Bugbee When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we ...
A four-year-old boy is helping investigators piece together the tragic last days of his six-year-old brother who was battered to death by his parents after suffering a childhood of savage abuse.