Actress Elizabeth Peña died Tuesday at the age of 55. Her nephew, Latino Review writer Mario-Francisco Robles, confirmed the news in an obituary posted on the site.
"The actress, with a professional career spanning nearly 40 years, left us on the night of October 14 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles," he wrote. Peña is believed to have died of natural causes after a brief illness.
Peña earned plenty of fans for her roles on both the big and small screen.
After graduating from the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, Peña began her career in 1978 with León Ichaso's El Super. By the end of the '80s, she had a large resume that included roles in La Bamba, Down and Out in Beverly Hills and Blue Steel. The list only grew when she starred in fan-favorites like The Incredibles, Lone Star and Jacob's Ladder. Most recently, the actress played Sofía Vergara's mother on ABC's Emmy-winning series Modern Family. She also just wrapped work on the first season of the El Rey Network's action series, Matador, where she secured the role of mother, Maritza.
LA Industrial duo Youth Code juxtapose human and animal suffering in "Consuming Guilt," the lead single from extended play A Place To Stand (2014). Directed by Grant Singer (Sky Ferreira, DIIV).
On 7th October City Of Violence is released on DVD.
Director: Jérôme Salle
Stars: Orlando Bloom, Forest Whitaker, Tanya van Graan
As a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Only he and his mother survived the carnage of those years. But as with many survivors, the psychological scars remain. Today, Ali is chief of the homicide branch of the South African police in Cape Town. One of his staff is Brian Epkeen, a free-wheeling white officer whose family was originally involved in the establishment of apartheid but who works well with Neuman. Together they have to deal with crime that inevitably exists in sprawling areas of un- and under- employed people, crime exacerbated by gangs, both local and from other parts of Africa. Their job gets even more difficult when the corpses of two young women are found. A new evil has been introduced in the city and a new drug has been introduced to its residents, including both murder victims. At the chaotic crossroads where brutality and modernization collide, the echoes of...
Op 7 oktober verschijnt via De Filmfreak Distributie City Of Violence op dvd.
Kaapstad 2013, de parel van Zuid-Afrika, een stad geteisterd door criminaliteit en drugshandel. Rechercheur Ali Neuman, ontsnapte als kind aan de dood en draagt zoals zovelen in Zuid-Afrika een duister verleden met zich mee. Hij en zijn partner Brian worden aangesteld om de moord op de dochter van een bekende rugbyspeler op te lossen. Om het fijne van de zaak te weten, moeten ze afdalen in de onderwereld van de sloppenwijken, waar drugsbarons en machinegeweren de wetten bepalen. Wanneer plots blijkt dat ook een farmaceutisch bedrijf betrokken partij is, neemt het verhaal een levensgevaarlijke wending. Kan het dat de macht en de geheimen van het oude Apartheidsregime nog steeds sluimeren?
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"Intens tripje naar Kaapstad" HUMO
"De maatschappijschets die Salle geeft is pakkend" ★★★ ½ De Telegraaf
"Een puike, vaardig gemaakte thriller" Metro
"Snoeiharde thriller" Spits
"Van begin tot eind spannend [ ] Neemt je twee uur lang in een houdgreep" ★★★★ Moviescene
"Rauwe politiethriller" VPRO Gids / Cinema.nl
"Een harde politiehriller die ons confronteert met seks, drugs en machinegeweren in de sloppenwijken van Kaapstad" NU.NL
The actress Sasha Grey will be presenting the feature ‘Open Windows’ by Nacho Vigalondo at the 41st Film Fest Gent On Friday 24th of October.
Since she left the adult movie world in 2009 Sasha Grey has gone on to star in HBO’s 'Entourage', published books, and deejays internationally. She starred in Steven Soderbergh’s 'The Girlfriend Experience' and penned the internationally successful novel 'The Juliette Society' in 2013 that took her on a world tour – from Russia and Italy to Ukraine, Mexico and Brazil, as well as numerous international television appearances.
‘Open Windows’
Sasha Grey stars opposite to Elijah Wood in Vigalondo’s first English feature. Wood plays Nick, the biggest fan of the actress Jill Goddard (Grey) and webmaster of jillgoddardcaught.com. Nick has won the main prize in an online contest and gets to meet his favorite actress. But then the dinner is cancelled. Through a mysterious man, Nick is given access to every last detail of Jill's life on his computer, but a simple click on the mouse leads to unforeseeable consequences.
Grey on playing the part of Jill: “The characters I look for, those that interest me, are strong women and Jill, my character in 'Open Windows' had everything I wanted." Vigalondo shot the film using webcams, tablets, mobile phones, CCTV cameras and satellites, which delivered a high-tech 21st century version of the classic paranoia film 'Rear Window'.
Tickets for the exclusive screening on Friday 24th of October at Kinepolis Ghent, with Sasha Grey in attendance, are available at www.filmfestival.be. Film Fest Gent will run from 14 to 25 October.
Reverb Post Punk
7" white vinyl (Manic Depression)
M!R!M is the solo project of Jack Milwaukee based in London.
Called post-punk Jack's music is obsessed by The Jesus & the Mary Chains' dirty sound guitars, flirting with Suicide's frenzy. Powerful, dynamic, dirty yet hypnotizing and aerial.
After two EPs, "Enjoy your Sorrow", "It's not enough anymore" (afmusic), and an aclaimed album "Heaven" (Fabrika Records), Manic Depression is proud to release its new EP "Reel / Flowers In Bloom".
