Author: Veronica Vasquez

As we rejoin the Alvarez family for a third season on the hit Netflix show “One Day at a Time,” it is sadly for a funeral. The show is a remake based on the original series that aired back in the late ’70s and early ’80s. This time the show is moderinzed and deals with difficult issues of today with a Cuban-American family.  The show explores depression, anxiety, homosexuality, deportation, religion, politics and many other hard-hitting topics. Justina Machado plays Penelope, an Army veteran and single mother who works as a nurse trying to make a better living for her…

It has been five years since the sequel to “How to Train Your Dragon” came out, now the trilogy gets completed with “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.” Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera and Gerard Butler return as the voice talents of Hiccup, Astrid and Stoick, respectively. We rejoin Hiccup and everyone who lives on the island of Bark along with the dragons. The Vikings continue to rescue dragons and having them live in peace with each one another.  Sadly that is interrupted by Grimmel, voiced by F. Murray Abraham. Grimmel, a well-known nightfury slayer, who thought he has…

When it comes to art, some do it just to tell a story, while others do it for the money.  Netflix’s newest original movie, “Velvet Buzzsaw” from director Dan Gilroy, is filled with an A-list cast such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo and Zawe Ashton. Gyllenhaal plays an art critic known as the great Morf Vandewait. A review from him could make or break an artist trying to make it into the industry. Russo plays Rhodora Haze, an art dealer who pretty much sold herself out to the industry. Ashton plays Josephina, a young art dealer trying to make it…