Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early 1990s, a couple hundred members of the Cuban punk scene deliberately infected themselves with HIV in an effort to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Héctor Medina plays Paco in "Los Frikis," based on real events in Cuba in the early 1990s. The movie takes its title from the ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Spanish-language feature from the directors of 'The Peanut Butter Falcon' follows young outcasts who willingly contracted HIV to secure food during the island nation’s 'Special Period.' Produced by ...

Starring Héctor Medina, Adria Arjona and Eros de la Puente, the indie drama tells the true story of Cubans who injected themselves with HIV Héctor Medina, star of the film “Los Frikis,” thinks the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It all started in Havana. For filmmakers Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson — the directorial duo behind 2019’s Shia ...

Despite going the indie route again, the filmmakers do reveal they are developing a 'Treasure Island' take with Disney: “It has the patina of the 1970s surf world.” By Brian Davids Writer “We took a ...

In the late 1980s, young punk rockers in Cuba, known as “los frikis,” were so fed-up with the stifling life of the communist regime that they chose to inject themselves with the AIDS virus so they ...

"You can't expect to hold onto anything, Gustavo." The official trailer is available for a new film titled Los Frikis, a coming-of-age film from 1990s Cuba based on a true story. This indie drama is ...

Héctor Medina is a force of nature in this too-Sundance-for-Sundance drama about a true phenomenon from the Fidel Castro years. In the early 2020s, two American filmmakers named Tyler Nilson and ...

A coming-of-age movie with a dramatic punk rock twist has a storyline that may sound unreal, but it's based on true events. In "Los Frikis," set in early 1990s Cuba, hundreds of young, disenfranchised ...