Days of Our Lives: Kristian Alfonso Quits NBC Soap After 37 Years

After nearly four decades, Kristian Alfonso is saying goodbye to Salem. The actress, who has portrayed Hope on Days of Our Lives since 1983, will not return to set when the NBC soap resumes production in September. “Days of Our Lives has been a vital part of both my personal and professional journey,” the actress […]

Strictly Come Dancing 2019: Alfonso Ribeiro baffles viewers with ‘screaming’ technique

David let out a huge roar, seemingly to let go of any tension he has within the body, but viewers weren’t massively convinced with the technique.  One wrote: “Alfonso telling David to scream on the spot, lmaooo, what is happening #strictly.” Another added: “If Alfonso put me on the spot by telling me to scream […]

Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’ Is a Powerful, Empathetic Memory Play

In the on-screen text that opens Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, we’re told that the Spanish spoken through most of the movie is subtitled in English, but the occasional bracketed subtitles are to indicate characters speaking in the localized Mixtec dialect; observant viewers will notice, fairly quickly, that said dialect is primarily spoken by the domestic workers […]

‘Roma’ Review: Alfonso Cuarón Has Made a Masterpiece of Humanity and Empathy [TIFF]

Alfonso Cuarón‘s Roma is a singular achievement – a visually resplendent tale of empathy, focusing on a housekeeper in 1970s Mexico, and the family she works and lives with. “The movies are like a machine that generates empathy,” wrote Roger Ebert, and that description is more than apt for Roma, Alfonso Cuarón’s new masterpiece. The most personal film […]

Netflix releases its first trailer for Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘ROMA’

We finally have our first look at Alfonso Cuarón’s first Netflix feature and his first film after Gravity back in 2014. The streaming platform has released a trailer for the black-and-white flick ROMA, which was inspired by Cuarón’s childhood (specifically the women who shaped it) back in the ’70s. ROMA tells the story of a […]