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Gomez is supposed to highlight English-language entertainment in the US that features Latino performers. But we will make an exception today for the great news that actors Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal have teamed up again to make another cutting-edge, excellent film in Spanish (with English subtitles). The first film they did together, as you might recall, was the wonderful Y Tu Mama Tambien.

We will also make an exception because we just read our new Entertainment Weekly, which had about 600 people featured in it - none of them Latinos. Provided that we make up about 20 percent of the population of the nation, and that most of us speak English, our absence is conspicuous and eerie. And inexcusable. And predictable. And nauseating. Gomez will stop now.

Anyway, we've found umbrage in news about the new Luna/Bernal film, Rudo y Cursi, which tells the story of two brothers, soccer, Mexico, hipsterness, headbands, cowboy shirts, irony, etc. It is directed by Carlos Cuaron, the brother of Alfronso Cuaron, who shows great promise.

Gomez has great respect for Mr. Garcia Bernal for having deftly avoided playing any stereotypical characters for Hollywood - which has offered him many. And we will forgive Luna for that Dirty Dancing Havana Nights thing he did a while back, now that he appears to have come to his senses.

We are told the film will be in "limited release" in the United States, while tripe like Madea Eats Ho-Hos will no doubt be shown widely. Why is Gomez not surprised? Why is Gomez ripping EW to shreds?