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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 29m

For the early evening crowd....

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Cinema Tropical @cinematropical.com · 2h

@alejandroariera.bsky.social recommends 10 essential Chilean films that are worth watching for Rotten Tomatoes. Dig deeper into the Chilean films that preceded, chronicled, endured, and emerged from the country's turbulent history

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10 Essential Chilean Films That Are Worth Watching

Dig deeper into the Chilean films that preceded, chronicled, endured, and emerged from the country's turbulent history.

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 6h

The dynamic duo: Daniella and Cortlyn!

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 6h

In other news…I was invited by @rottentomatoes.com's editorial team to contribute to their Hispanic Heritage Month special section. I was asked to chose ten essential films from Chile. Pretty happy with my choices. Thanks @vanessaerazo.bsky.social for recommending me!:

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10 Essential Chilean Films That Are Worth Watching

Dig deeper into the Chilean films that preceded, chronicled, endured, and emerged from the country's turbulent history.

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 6h

When news came out that Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Tom Cruise would be working together, most of us wondered what a collaboration between these two massive egos. The answer: one boondoggle of catastrophic proportions. My review of DIGGER: alejandroariera.substack.com/p/louder-we-...

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LOUDER!!!! We Can’t Hear You in the Back!

DIGGER has no room for political, ideological or even emotional nuance

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 7h

Give it up for Sam Bodrojan who delivers the best blistering critique of Iñárritu's boondoggle that I have read so far: "It is a standard work of reactionary centrism." Damn!!!!!

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

DIGGER: Just realized, as I am finally writing my review, how Eurocentric/Westernized the film's point-of-view is when, in fact, climate change has hit the hardest in Third World countries.What most like to call the South. Not even the waves of migration it causes. Interesting, ain't it?

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social & other leaders need to understand that if anyone on the Democrat side even SUGGESTS we just "move on" from this evil era, they will be vilified as bought-and-sold quislings THEY MUST BE PUNISHED

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seated for Laurie Anderson and SexMob at the Riviera in Uptown Chi-town.

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Aaron Cohen @aaroncohenchicago.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just picked up my copy today at BookCellar—just in time to assign some selections for my students as October is Latine fantasy/horror/sci-fi in my class. Not to be confused with magical realism.

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Out in bookstores today. My greedy little hands will grab a copy this week. So should you. Latine horror at its best from Chicago's very own (by way of Arecibo, Puerto Rico) Cynthia Pelayo.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had a chance to sit with my French publisher and talk about how well Zero Saints (Santa Muerte) did. The little book that could launched my career here, and for that I’m forever grateful. Anyway, it’s still Hispanic Heritage Month and this is only $2.99! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0D8...

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For those fellow Chicago film critics who chose the Bears over tonight's screening....you chose well.

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DIGGER is rated R for, get this, "pervasive language". First time I see a movie rated for its verbosity.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Anna Maltese @annamaltese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Where’s Maureen Dowd at? I just wanna talk.

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Movies are amazing, but you don’t have to see the ones they say you do, now more than ever. You have a choice. Ask your local theater to book something weird and bring all your friends. It requires almost no effort!

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I do sort of think that imagining tech bros are in charge of society is the base case issue here. They have exactly the amount of power we give them. So buy a Brick or whatever and stop! This is a short power grab and it can be easily interrupted.

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A bird? A plane? It ain't Superman for sure.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

as a chicagoan who writes about the entertainment industry, one day, when my interstellar rocketship is finished, I will no longer be in the cursed position of constantly seeing Ari Emanuel content and also Rahm Emanuel content

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NOT CHICAGO

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Colombian film LA JAURÍA (The Pack) never got a proper release in the US, though it won a prize at Cannes. It’s now on Tubi. I wrote about it for the @cinelandiausa.bsky.social newsletter. It’s a sobering look at troubled young men trying to escape the cycles of violence. Link below.

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If Democratic members of Congress, staffers, and think tanks are not meeting to plan for the next Congress, they sure should be. Democrats will not have a veto-proof majority, no matter what. So what are their priorities? What leverage can they use to limit Trump’s power? Tough fights ahead.

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

PRIMETIME is creepily irresistible, especially when you have Robert Pattinson delivering a slightly deranged, desperate, driven, disturbing and, yes, altogether hypnotic performance. That won’t stop you, though, from wanting to take a shower to wash off all the filth after watching it. My review:

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You Are Such a Bad Person

PRIMETIME Is a Highly Entertaining Shit But You May Want to Take a Shower After

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ahhh yeah that feels good www.avclub.com/ai-plolicy

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"you know how Harry Potter is evil? Ok, apply that to everything on TV and playing at your AMC"

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i guess if i had to explain all this to someone on the street, it'd be something like "the government just approved a deal that says whenever you stream anything or go to the movie theater, the KKK gets a couple bucks"

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Puerto Rico's two largest dailies are going digital only next week. This in an island where a significant number of the population (especially the elderly) don't have Internet access.

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El Nuevo Día y Primera Hora serán 100% digitales

Las ediciones de ambos periódicos publicarán exclusivamente en formato digital a partir del 28 de septiembre

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

some people replying and saying ed sheeran can’t take the same risks as an established legend like david byrne, but then you look at olivia rodrigo who is 12 years younger than sheeran and just organized an entire festival to support ABORTION. bravery has little to do with age/experience.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

last night we had ed sheeran apologizing for saying what’s happening in palestine is bad and at the same time david byrne putting up a huge graphic that says MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN and showing footage of ICE brutality to a sold out crowd. you can actually be famous and successful AND give a shit.

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Brian Tallerico @briantallerico.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I keep telling my friends who aren’t online much that it can’t be Newsom in 28 and they don’t know what I’m talking about because they just see him as a big voice from a big state for now. It CAN’T be Newsom.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When you say Twitter is still working for you, you're announcing that you've managed to plug your ears to all the horrors going on there and are just living in denial to what's going on around you, sort of your own personal ZONE OF INTEREST experience.

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I remember those folders!!! You see, kiddies, your Unca Alex worked at what was known as the "morgue" from 89-92: a repository of paper clippings stuffed in envelopes, photos (including some bloody ones from the 30s and 40s) and computers with access to Vu-Text and Lexis. IYKYK.

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Kristen Lopez writes about the history of entitled male creeps (like the two Jeffs, Sneider and Wells), their misogyny and why we need to keep holding them into account:

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Hollywood's long history of men who think actresses owe them

Jeff Sneider's threats against Inde Navarrette fit a decades-old pattern in entertainment media.

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everyone, give Mr. DeFede a standing ovation. Seems like former Univision reporter turned congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar forgot that a journalist's duty is to question, question and question some more and not to buy into a politician's talking points.

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Chicago International Film Festival today unveiled its lineup (with a couple more titles to be added in the future, I am sure). So consider this my annual reminder that you should be paying as much or more attention to the smaller films than the ones who will be released theatrically…

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