#Lupe Ontiveros

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Chuck & Buck (2000)

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Remembering Lupe Ontiveros (September 17, 1942 – July 26, 2012)

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241 - Selena (with Luis Rendon!)

And we’re back! We hope you all enjoyed the 100 YEARS, 100... SNUBS! May miniseries, but regular episodes are returning and did we come back with a special one! The Mixed Reviews co-host and journalist Luis Rendon joins us to talk about one of the most beloved musical biopics of all time, 1997′s Selena. The film follows the rise and sudden tragic end of Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla, and catapulted actress Jennifer Lopez in a major way. Lopez stayed in the conversation to earn a Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy nomination at the Globes, but the Oscars overlooked her now-treasured performance that is often remarked on for her ability to recreate the real life icon that she played.

This episode, we discuss the many phases on Jennifer Lopez’s career from her breakout in 1997 to her emergence into a music career and triumph at the Super Bowl Half Time Show with Shakira. We also discuss the massive casting search that landed her the role, the film as a tool of healing in the immediate aftermath of Selena’s murder, and the visual style of Tejano music videos brought to the film.

Topics also include the 1997 Best Actress race, the tradition of post-Drag Race on VH1 cinema, and character actress legend Lupe Ontiveros.

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Zoot Suit: on the night before his Navy enlistment, Henry Reyna & his fellow pachucos are framed for a murder at the Sleepy Lagoon. Based on the dynamic Broadway musical, Luis Valdez’ cinematic adaptation covers the real life trial that would become a pivotal piece of the Chicano Movement!

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Real Women Have Curves (2002)

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Bad movie I have As Good as it Gets 1997

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Endless List of My Favorite Movies

Selena (1997)

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W ☠️ T C H I N G

I've only ever seen the middle ending of the film. But my mom and I are watching KE HUY QUAN's early movies ' Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom' and now Goonies.

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26 luglio … ricordiamo …

26 luglio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2021: Gogó Rojo, nome d’arte di Gladys del Valle Rojo Castro, attrice argentina. Sorella di Ethel Rojo.  (n. 1942) 2020: Olivia de Havilland, nata Olivia Mary de Havilland, è stata un’attrice britannica naturalizzata statunitense. Sorella maggiore dell’attrice Joan Fontaine. (n. 1916) 2020: Claudia Giannotti, attrice e doppiatrice italiana. Fu moglie del doppiatore e attore Carlo Valli. (n.…

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Lupe Ontiveros as Beverly Franco in a scene from Chuck and Buck with Mike White. Lupe was born in El Paso and had 110 acting credits from a 1976 episode of Charlie's Angels to 2014. Her other honorable mention is Blood In Blood Out.

Her other notable credits include episodes of Eight Is Enough, Police Story, Soap, Alice (2 episodes), Hill Street Blues (3), Whos the Boss, Punky Brewster, Tales from the Crypt, Veronicas Closet (4), Weeds, Family Guy, and Desperate Housewives (8).

Her film credits include California Suite, Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, The Borders, The Goonies, Universal Soldier, Selena (as her murderer), As Good as It Gets, Storytelling, and Real Women Have Curves.

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America Ferrera's breakthrough career

I just want to point out that this woman has delivered 2 cinematic, historical, browsing, impeccable speeches about the frustrations I feel about being a woman. And that actress of course is the one and only America Ferrera herself. Let's talk about her debut role in the movie — Real Women Have Curves. The 2002 independent film based on the play by Josefina Lopez is one of my all-time favourite movies I have watched in my lifetime. And if you somehow know this movie through another suspicious Greta Gerwig connection, I implore you to watch this. The movie was directed by Patricia Cardoso. At the time when it was released, America Ferrera had already filmed another movie but this movie debuted first putting her on the map. She was only 17 years old! Josefina López wrote the play when she was 18 years old. In 2019 it was the first Latina directed film to be included in the National Film Registry at the library of Congress. Taking inspiration from her real life, Josefina wrote Real Women Have Curves about Ana, mostly centered on her relationship with her mother Carmen, played by Lupe Ontiveros. This movie is touted, not only for its representation of women in their real bodies, it also delivered a warm and loving portrayal of Latina families and neighborhoods in Royal Heights and East Los Angeles. Again this isn't a time where Latinas, even today, are represented in a full and nuancent light. So to not only have this Latina family but to have them placed in East Los Angeles which has been criminally and stereotypically portrayed as "dangerous", really meant something and still means something today. And the message of that film being "there's so much more to me than my weight". I think this might serve as a comfort watch for many women around the world.

I don't understand how we were made to believe as children, that America Ferrera was the biggest woman to ever grace our tv screen. The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants is what I call perfection in cinema. If I ever will have a daughter in the future, she is required to watch this movie. Because every little girl needs to understand what sisterhood and what community is. I feel like girls today are not watching sisterhood displayed on television, or even in movies. It's always these toxic relationship, these toxic friendship — not to say that neither of those can't be toxic and bad, because even within this friend group they all have their own issues with each other, with their families etc. But it's not about the problems, it's how they solve them, how they come together. And I feel like this message should be displayed for the young girls today. And I just love how diverse the friend group is, because nowadays it seems like every teenager I see on tv are like the same skinny, white blondes. If you haven't seen this movie make sure to have a box of tissues nearby because it's going to make you cry.

The dark side of pretty privilige is, you don't get to be funny, intelligent, respected — you just get to be pretty. So I've just finished watching Ugly Betty, I fully recommend, and I realised the only female character who's actually respected within this show, is Betty. If you don't already know the concept, Betty gets hired to be the assistant to the chief. Because he sleeps with his assistants, they decide to get him an "ugly" girl so he won't sleep with her. But she's hired for Mode, which is kind of like Vogue/Cosmo type of magazine. So naturally she gets bullied. They treat her like crap because she doesn't look like the ideal Mode girl. But the crazy thing is, since none of the men want to sleep with her, they actually respect her. They start to treat her like a human being with ideas. Then she becomes one of the most liked people by anyone in their team. On top of that, all of these gorgeous women get treated like absolute crap. No one listens to them, their ideas are not heard, and they're not respected. So it leaves a very clear message: wether you are gorgeous or "ugly", misogyny will still hunt you down and it will catch you. For Betty, men don't look twice her way. They treat her bad from the moment they see her. Just because they don't want to sleep with her, they don't find her attractive. For the beautiful women in the show, like Amanda who is painted as the gorgeous blonde, men only want to sleep with her, and they don't see that she's smart. Go back to watch the show and you'll see how horribly the other women get treated compared to Betty (and they have some good cameos in this show).

As we are reaching the end, we can claim America Ferrera as "that girl". The term is, in my opinion, used for anyone who dresses like a fashionista and acts like the queen they are. But it's much more than that. I think, to achieve that title you have to be also impactful and encourage other women to be what they want to be. America really proved it by playing the Emmy Award winning role of Gloria in Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig. I think every cis, heterosexual white male should be forced to sit down and watch this movie. The message behind the Barbie movie is about going from being a girl to being a woman. Barbieland is what our childhood felt like; we were safe, naive, independent and everything seemed perfect. The real world is what womanhood actually is. It's scary, sexist, there's pain and we're faced with so many challenges, while still being held to unrealistic expectations by society. "We mothers stand still, so our daughters can look back to see how far they've become". America Ferrera's speech about how hard it is to be a woman, really affected me and made me tear up in the theather. "It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong. You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin. You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass. You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean. You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas. You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time. You have to be a career woman but also always be looking out for other people. You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is insane, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining. You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood." America Ferrera the woman you are, thank you so much for helping me and other women to believe in theirselves. Happy international women's day! <3

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The Goonies (1985)

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You know in the beginning when Robert Davi is faking dead in the county jail, I never understood how he knocked that cop out. It is one of the fakest hits I think I’ve seen in a movie. I mean sure it is 985, but it doesn’t have to be that terrible.

Introducing all the kids throughout the police chase is brilliant through Steven Spielberg. I think my favorite is Corey Feldman when he turns off the tv for the sirens and then the sirens keep going and he hits the tv 😂 just turn around.

True brother-ship right there. Josh Brolin and Sean Astin definitely act like how brothers would.

Ke Huy Quan is my favorite though. All his inventions.

F**king CF. All of those crazy things he “translated” for Lupe Ontiveros. “Always separate the drugs” 🙄

Jeff Cohen… so loud, so annoying. Let’s just yell as loud as you can that these people are going to kill you to where they can hear you. Like tf

Anne Ramsey is definitely one of the scarier mob ladies I think I’ve ever seen. She was definitely a great choice to play Mama Fratelli.

Kerri Green and Martha Plimpton running into the restaurant screaming after finding fish heads on a rake. KG “it jumped right out of the bushes” 🙄 big babies.

Guess Nike paid for some ad space. Saw 2 clear shots of different kinds of shoes as they lowered into the tunnel.

I absolutely love when they starting banging on the pipes! The asshats at the Country Club deserve every bit. Especially Steven Antin in the bathroom!

Just realized that Joe Pantoliano is the captain in Bad Boys. Had to text the bestie 😎

Goonies Never Say Die!

How does AR know the shoe size she was looking at are 5’s??

Now I really wanna Baby Ruth.

KHQ’s inventions saved his live. Pinchers of Peril! Next, his slick shoes!

Then my favorite booby trap from One Eye Willie. The Bone Organ. Poor KG all that pressure to do it right and not kill everyone.

Then we have John Matuszak turn into Super Sloth and kicks his brothers asses! And then AR being a terrible mother. “I only dropped you one once. Well maybe twice.”

I always wondered how JC’s mother in the movie felt about him saying that JM was going to live with them now. Like just inviting some adult stranger into your home.

Of course, they save The Goon Docks!

Thanks for reading this episode of Reefer-Reelz-N-Reviews!

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5 / 10

Título Original: Universal Soldier

Año: 1992

Duración: 96 min.

País: Estados Unidos  

Dirección: Roland Emmerich

Guion: Dean Devlin. Historia: Richard Rothstein, Christopher Leitch

Música: Christopher Franke

Fotografía: Karl Walter Lindenlaub

Reparto: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Ally Walker, Ed O'Ross, Jerry Orbach, Leon Rippy, Ralf Moeller, Tico Wells, Robert Trebor, Gene Davis, Drew Snyder, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Simon Rhee, Eric Norris, Michael Winther, Joseph Malone, Rance Howard, Lilyan Chauvin, Joanne Baron, Lupe Ontiveros, Jack Moore, John Storey, Bradford Bancroft, Thomas Rosales Jr., Tai Thai, Rachel Wagner, Ned Bellamy, Daniel Demorest, Eddie Braun, Walter Robles, Jophery C. Brown, Dona Hardy, Leon Delaney, George Fisher, David Efron, Rhino Michaels, Duane Davis, Shane Dixon, Joel Kramer, Michael Jai White, Mirron E. Willis, Allan Graf, Kamel Krifa, John DeMita, Jill Jaress

Productora: Carolco Pictures, Studiocanal, IndieProd, Centropolis Film Productions. Productor: Mario Kassar

Género: Action; Sci-Fi

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105698/

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Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez in El Norte (Gregory Nava, 1983)

Cast: David Villalpando, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alicia del Lago, Lupe Ontiveros, Trinidad Silva, Enrique Castillo, Tony Plana, Diane Cary, Mike Gomez, Abel Franco. Screenplay: Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas. Cinematography: James Glennon. Art direction: David Wasco. Film editing: Betsy Blankett Milicevic

Almost 40 years have passed since the release of El Norte, and the problems it depicts seem as intractable as ever, adding the poignancy of ongoing history to the film's bleak ending. As a document of the tragedy wrought by colonialism and the muddle of U.S. immigration policy, Gregory Nava's film is an essential one. Regarded as a work of narrative filmmaking, it has some deep flaws, particularly in the resort to overly "cinematic" devices like suspense. The intercutting between the plane departing for Chicago and Rosa's hospital room feels like textbook filmmaking, making the audience hold its breath to find out whether Enrique will really abandon his sister in hope of getting a green card. We don't need movie suspense fakeouts at this painful moment. But Nava does so much else right in the rest of the film, including the staging of the harrowing border crossing, as well as allowing humor to share screen time with pathos, that it's hard to criticize his lapses. If sincerity were everything, El Norte could be hailed as a masterpiece.

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Lupe Ontiveros - IMDB

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Real Women Have Curves (2002)