The United States is home to the largest immigrant population in the world, with hundreds of thousands more seeking asylum and citizenship. America would not be what it is today if not for immigration ...
Writing about A24’s Problemista is what I imagine it must be like to catch a cloud in a jar: fascinating, fun, and so utterly impossible. This film is unpredictable and revelatory and I’m looking at ...
Julio Torres is one of the great millennial oddballs. The Saturday Night Live writer and Los Espookys co-creator, writer, and star is a soulful weirdo who pours his singular comedic voice into shows ...
Julio Torres writes, directs, produces and stars in Problemista (now streaming on Max), a very strange and idiosyncratic and – watch out for this word, which should only be doled out in the most ...
Fans of the surrealist humor of Julio Torres, who created the cult comedy “Los Espookys” as well as sketches for “Saturday Night Live,” will be the best prepared for “Problemista,” Torres’s feature ...
An inventive, whimsical and delightfully oddball story of the immigrant experience, "Problemista" marks the promising writing and directing debut of Julio Torres. Torres, a former writer at "SNL," ...
Production designer Katie Byron discusses the most complex and wild build of Julio Torres' fantastical U.S. immigration fable. Larry Owens personifies the website Craigslist, to which Torres’ ...
In the very funny and gently surreal new film Problemista, Julio Torres plays Alejandro, a young man from El Salvador scraping by in New York City... 'Problemista' speaks softly but carries big laughs ...
Julio Torres is pictured in the film Problemista, which will be screened Wednesday at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts. Julio Torres directs and stars in Problemista, which will be screened at 7 p.m.
Emily Bernard is a Features Editor and Peer Mentor for Collider who studied History, Playwriting, and English at the University of Scranton. She’s a proud comedy nerd who loves getting into the nitty ...
Perhaps the only sane way to tell a story about the U.S. Immigration system is to make it as absurd and fantastical as possible, and Julio Torres’ “Problemista,” like his HBO series “Los Espookys,” is ...