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2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Supporting Actor Barbie, Ryan Gosling, 2023. © Warner Bos. / Courtesy Everett Collection
Weekly Commentary: There’s no way to prove this statement, but I think Robert Downey Jr is winning by such a wide margin for his work in “Oppenheimer.”
With Critics Choice, Golden Globes, SAG and BAFTA in his pocket,...
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
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2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Supporting Actor Barbie, Ryan Gosling, 2023. © Warner Bos. / Courtesy Everett Collection
Weekly Commentary: There’s no way to prove this statement, but I think Robert Downey Jr is winning by such a wide margin for his work in “Oppenheimer.”
With Critics Choice, Golden Globes, SAG and BAFTA in his pocket,...
- 3/7/2024
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
In director Roger Ross Williams’ Cassandro, we first meet Saúl Armendáriz — the real-life luchador portrayed by Gael García Bernal — when he’s still scraping his way through the amateur circuit. He’s got an uphill battle ahead: Not only is he smaller and lighter than most of his brawny opponents, he’s also openly gay and the subject of taunts and jeers from his leotard-clad colleagues.
And then, about 20 minutes in, Cassandro arrives. Armendáriz decides to embrace a new identity as one of lucha libre’s exoticos, extravagant male fighters...
And then, about 20 minutes in, Cassandro arrives. Armendáriz decides to embrace a new identity as one of lucha libre’s exoticos, extravagant male fighters...
- 1/5/2024
- by Julyssa Lopez
- Rollingstone.com
There is no shortage this September of new (and old) things to watch on Prime Video! The Amazon streamer is adding over 300 new TV series and films to its library this month, from highly anticipated season premieres to classic movies.
Included in the list this month are many Amazon Originals, including the highly anticipated “Cassandro,” starring Gael García Bernal, and the Season 2 premiere of the high fantasy series “The Wheel of Time,” starring Rosamund Pike.
But if you’re looking to revisit old favorites, Prime Video will be adding hundreds of movies to its library, including the “Bourne” franchise, “The Birdcage,” and many, many others.
Not sure where to start? Check out The Streamable’s picks below for what’s coming to platform this month!
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Included in the list this month are many Amazon Originals, including the highly anticipated “Cassandro,” starring Gael García Bernal, and the Season 2 premiere of the high fantasy series “The Wheel of Time,” starring Rosamund Pike.
But if you’re looking to revisit old favorites, Prime Video will be adding hundreds of movies to its library, including the “Bourne” franchise, “The Birdcage,” and many, many others.
Not sure where to start? Check out The Streamable’s picks below for what’s coming to platform this month!
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- 8/31/2023
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
Prime Video has debuted the trailer for the Sundance Official Selection feature ‘Cassandro.’
Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the character ‘Cassandro,’ the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world, but also his own life.
Based on a true story the film is directed by Roger Ross Williams and stars Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Perla De La Rosa, Joaquín Cosío, and Raúl Castillo with special appearances from El Hijo del Santo and Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.
Also in trailers – “I will be writing in spite of it…” Trailer lands for ‘The Lesson’
The feature hits select cinemas on September 15th before hitting the streamer globally on September 22nd.
The post “I want to flip it…” Trailer fights its way in for ‘Cassandro’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the character ‘Cassandro,’ the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world, but also his own life.
Based on a true story the film is directed by Roger Ross Williams and stars Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Perla De La Rosa, Joaquín Cosío, and Raúl Castillo with special appearances from El Hijo del Santo and Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.
Also in trailers – “I will be writing in spite of it…” Trailer lands for ‘The Lesson’
The feature hits select cinemas on September 15th before hitting the streamer globally on September 22nd.
The post “I want to flip it…” Trailer fights its way in for ‘Cassandro’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 8/23/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Gael Garcia Bernal stars and executive produces the life story of Saúl Armendáriz better known as Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre." The gay luchador transformed the wrestling world, and Bernal inhabits the real-life wrestler in the biopic, Cassandro. Watch the first trailer and images from the Prime Video movie which also features Bad Bunny (Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) and El Hijo del Santo.
- 8/23/2023
- by luperhaas@cinemovie.tv (Lupe R Haas)
- CineMovie
In select theaters September 15 and streaming globally on Prime Video September 22 is the upcoming film Cassandro.
Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the character ‘Cassandro,’ the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world, but also his own life. Based on a true story. Directed by Academy Award® winner Roger Ross Williams.
The film stars Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Perla De La Rosa, Joaquín Cosío, and Raúl Castillo with special appearances from El Hijo del Santo and Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.
The film sits at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. It screened, and was one of the most buzzed about movies, earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
In their review, The Daily Beast says “Led by a phenomenal performance by Gael García Bernal, Cassandro is a wild and entertaining story.”
Gael García Bernal in Cassandro.
Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the character ‘Cassandro,’ the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world, but also his own life. Based on a true story. Directed by Academy Award® winner Roger Ross Williams.
The film stars Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Perla De La Rosa, Joaquín Cosío, and Raúl Castillo with special appearances from El Hijo del Santo and Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.
The film sits at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. It screened, and was one of the most buzzed about movies, earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
In their review, The Daily Beast says “Led by a phenomenal performance by Gael García Bernal, Cassandro is a wild and entertaining story.”
Gael García Bernal in Cassandro.
- 8/22/2023
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Even if professional wrestling may not be everyone’s cup of tea, numerous stories behind the sports entertainment phenomena are usually quite engaging. Darren Aronofsky has been able to give a heartbreaking look into the complex life using various real-life inspirations for his film, The Wrestler. We will also be getting an equally rough drama with the upcoming Von Erich biopic, The Iron Claw. Even a lighter, more inspiring film like Fighting with My Family can prove to be just as compelling. Prime Video has just released a trailer for a film that gives us a look at the Mexican legacy of pro wrestling, the Lucha Libre, with Cassandro. The film is a biopic of real-life luchador, Saúl Armendáriz.
The official synopsis from Prime Video reads,
“Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the character ‘Cassandro,’ the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.
The official synopsis from Prime Video reads,
“Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the character ‘Cassandro,’ the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.
- 8/22/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
The same month Roger Ross Williams premieres his new documentary Stamped from the Beginning at TIFF, his first feature of the year will arrive across the world. Set for a theatrical release on September 15 followed by a Prime Video global debut on September 22, Cassandro follows Saúl Armendáriz (Gael García Bernal), a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rises to international stardom, upending not just the macho wrestling world, but also his own life. Based on a true story, the first trailer has now arrived for the Sundance selection.
Jose Solís said in his review, “Rather than reverting to a traditional biopic structure––i.e. a greatest hits (and losses) in someone’s life––Williams and co-screenwriter David Teague open almost in media res as we meet Saúl (Gael García Bernal), a wide-eyed young man who is head over heels in love with lucha libre. He spends his days crafting...
Jose Solís said in his review, “Rather than reverting to a traditional biopic structure––i.e. a greatest hits (and losses) in someone’s life––Williams and co-screenwriter David Teague open almost in media res as we meet Saúl (Gael García Bernal), a wide-eyed young man who is head over heels in love with lucha libre. He spends his days crafting...
- 8/22/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Cassandro Review — Cassandro (2023) Film Review from the 45th Annual Sundance Film Festival, a movie directed by Roger Ross Williams, starring Gael García Bernal, Bad Bunny, Roberta Colindrez, Raúl Castillo, Joaquín Cosio, Andrea Pazmino, Mark Vasconcellos, Perla De La Rosa, Yavor Vesselinov, Robert Salas, and El Hijo del Santo. The career of the [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Cassandro [Sundance 2023]: Exótico Pro Wrestler Turns Tables and Breaks New Ground...
Continue reading: Film Review: Cassandro [Sundance 2023]: Exótico Pro Wrestler Turns Tables and Breaks New Ground...
- 2/4/2023
- by David McDonald
- Film-Book
Gael García Bernal stars in ‘Cassandro’ (Photo © 2022 Amazon Content Services LLC)
Cassandro, writer/director Roger Ross Williams’ joyous celebration of the indomitable spirit of Saúl Armendáriz, is the perfect vehicle to introduce the Lucha Libre world and its groundbreaking, barrier-busting gay star to a wider audience.
The film catches up with Saúl (played by Gael García Bernal) in the 1980s when he’s wrestling as designated loser El Topo (which translates to The Mole). Saúl’s in a rut, and the only way out is to transform into an exótico. But that transformation would require him to incorporate his homosexuality into a character in front of a large audience that includes his homophobic estranged father. It would also mean he’d be forced to continue to lose since the wrestling world – both in the ring and in the stands – doesn’t embrace homosexuals. Gay wrestlers are mocked and ridiculed and subjected to disgusting sexual slurs.
Cassandro, writer/director Roger Ross Williams’ joyous celebration of the indomitable spirit of Saúl Armendáriz, is the perfect vehicle to introduce the Lucha Libre world and its groundbreaking, barrier-busting gay star to a wider audience.
The film catches up with Saúl (played by Gael García Bernal) in the 1980s when he’s wrestling as designated loser El Topo (which translates to The Mole). Saúl’s in a rut, and the only way out is to transform into an exótico. But that transformation would require him to incorporate his homosexuality into a character in front of a large audience that includes his homophobic estranged father. It would also mean he’d be forced to continue to lose since the wrestling world – both in the ring and in the stands – doesn’t embrace homosexuals. Gay wrestlers are mocked and ridiculed and subjected to disgusting sexual slurs.
- 1/23/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
For nearly a century, exóticos have been the clowns of Mexican wrestling: silly, queer-coded characters in flamboyant drag who pranced about the ring for the amusement of homophobic crowds. These hoary stereotypes have long been a part of the tradition of lucha libre — the country’s second-most-popular sport after soccer. Since Mexican wrestling matches are treated like elaborate metaphors of good versus evil, exóticos always lost to their more macho adversaries. Until Cassandro, an openly gay fighter whose outsized personality and atypical success feel ready-made for the movies.
Oscar winner Roger Ross Williams not only knows it, but possesses special insights into Cassandro’s story, having profiled “The Man Without a Mask” Saúl Armendáriz for his 2016 short film of the same name. Thanks to the dream casting of Mexican star Gael García Bernal as “the Liberace of Lucha Libre,” “Cassandro” arrives with a kind of instant credibility, which Williams protects...
Oscar winner Roger Ross Williams not only knows it, but possesses special insights into Cassandro’s story, having profiled “The Man Without a Mask” Saúl Armendáriz for his 2016 short film of the same name. Thanks to the dream casting of Mexican star Gael García Bernal as “the Liberace of Lucha Libre,” “Cassandro” arrives with a kind of instant credibility, which Williams protects...
- 1/21/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Gael García Bernal will don the mask and the tights of Cassandro, an independent feature from Oscar winning and two-time Emmy nominee filmmaker Roger Ross Williams.
Cassandro tells the true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rises to international stardom after he creates the “exotico” character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre,” and in the process upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life.
Armendáriz at the age of 15 quit school and began training for Lucha Libre, beginning his professional wrestling career in 1988 under the mask as Mister Romano. Ultimately he would abandon the character and take on the exotico character of Baby Sharon. Exoticos are male wrestlers who dress in drag.
Ultimately, Armendáriz would take the new ring name of Cassandro, from a Tijuana brothel keeper Cassandra whom he appreciated. In January 1991, after bad press that he was...
Cassandro tells the true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rises to international stardom after he creates the “exotico” character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre,” and in the process upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life.
Armendáriz at the age of 15 quit school and began training for Lucha Libre, beginning his professional wrestling career in 1988 under the mask as Mister Romano. Ultimately he would abandon the character and take on the exotico character of Baby Sharon. Exoticos are male wrestlers who dress in drag.
Ultimately, Armendáriz would take the new ring name of Cassandro, from a Tijuana brothel keeper Cassandra whom he appreciated. In January 1991, after bad press that he was...
- 7/30/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Iconic luchador El Santo is returning to the big screen and maverick Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia is the man bringing him there, with Iglesias signing on to direct a series of five new feature films revolving around the Mexican wrestling icon!One of the most popular Mexican pop culture figures of all time, the original El Santo (Rodolfo Guzman Huerta) began his career in the wring before branching out and eventually starring in more than fifty feature films, all of them featuring the trademark silver mask. Since his death in 1984 the mask has been taken up by Huerta's son, Jorge, who wrestles professionally as The Son Of El Santo and if my limited Spanish is reading the article tweeted by Iglesia correctly, it...
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- 10/11/2015
- Screen Anarchy
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