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From director Ben Hernandez Bray and producer Joe Carnahan (who developed the script together), the indie drama El Chicano is a very different kind of superhero story about a masked street legend who fights the evil that lives in the East Los neighborhood that’s stuck in a turf battle. When LAPD Detective Diego Hernandez (Raúl Castillo) is assigned a career-making case investigating a vicious cartel and learns that his brother’s supposed suicide might have actually been a murder, he becomes torn over the best way to seek justice. At the film’s Los Angeles press day, …

From director Ben Hernandez Bray and producer Joe Carnahan (who developed the script together), the indie drama El Chicano is a very different kind of superhero story about a masked street legend who fights the evil that lives in the East Los neighborhood that’s stuck in a turf battle. When LAPD Detective Diego Hernandez (Raúl Castillo) is assigned a career-making case investigating a vicious cartel and learns that his brother’s supposed suicide might have actually been a murder, he becomes torn over the best way to seek justice. At the film’s Los Angeles press day, …

Following the release of one of the most anticipated movies in quite some time came out last week, it's natural to feel a cinematic hangover - but we still have four flicks hitting theaters this week in which we can sink our teeth.

Briarcliff Entertainment has released the first trailer for El Chicano, the first superhero movie with an all-Hispanic cast. Raúl Castillo (Looking) stars as an LAPD Detective, Diego Hernandez, whose investigation into his brother's suicide and the local cartel forces him to adopt the mantle of El Chicano, "The Ghetto Grim Reaper," to wage a war agains the gangs threatening to destroy his city. It looks cool. It's basically Batman in the Barrio. The film marks the feature-film directing debut of Ben Hernandez Bray, a veteran stuntman whose work includes Iron Man, Star Trek, The Gray, …

Briarcliff has released the poster for the upcoming thriller El Chicano. Directed by Ben Hernandez Bray from a script he co-wrote with Joe Carnahan (The Grey), the film focuses on twin brothers Diego and Pedro who go their separate ways as adults with Diego becoming a cop and Pedro becoming a criminal. However, when clues connected to Pedro’s death connect to a case of Diego’s, a mysterious vigilante figure of their youth, “El Chicano”, resurfaces. Here’s what Carnahan had to say about why he decided to co-write the film and why he has so much …