Blast Beat
2021, NR, 105 min.
Directed by Esteban Arango, Starring Mateo Arias, Moises Arias, Daniel Dae Kim, Wilmer Valderrama.
Not reviewed at press time. Real-life brothers Mateo and Moises star as two immigrants from Colombia who move to the States for school, and find the American Dream harder to grasp than the stars, in this fresh and metal-fueled look at the immigrant experience.
This article appears in May 21 • 2021.
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