I doubt I'm going to review it at this point but there was a hugely entertaining doc at Sundance called American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez about the activist turned movie-director Luis Valdez that you should keep an eye out for. I didn't know 95% of his story and it's almost Forrest-Gump-ian in the way it weaves through American Latino history... but of course, me being me, my biggest takeaway was a vivid remembering how many times I watched and rewatched his 1987 Ritchie Valens bio-pic La Bamba as a kid because of how extremely hot Lou Diamond Phillips & Esai Morales were in it. Good grief were they a formative pair! (And both of them are interviewed in the doc and they're still, almost 40 years later, hot af.) Anyway I haven't seen La Bamba is decades but as soon as this doc was over I went and grabbed Criterion's recent release and plan on revisiting it, but until then answer me an impossible riddle...

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Morales is gorgeous and a good actor, but his mouthy anti-vaxxer crap turned me off, (This was years before Covid)
ReplyDeleteI immediately voted for Esai as hotter but then you went and posted that photo of Lou showering and, um...hmmmm. Well now you owe us one of Esai showering!
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