The premier networking event for urban professinals, Get Konnected!, will take place on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 6pm at the The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The event will feature keynote speakers Bob Rivers, President and CEO of Eastern Bank, and Linda Dorcena Forry, State Representative and Chair of the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Businesses.

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp fans rejoice.  The new film "Dark Shadows" is another perfect vehicle for these two superb talents to combine all their creative skills into one wonderfully entertaining mix of gothic drama, darkness and campy fun.  Even better, these two frequent on-screen collaborators have taken their mutual childhood affection for the cult 1960's TV classic and kept much of the show's unique creepiness and melodrama intact, while injecting a healthy, but not overpowering, dose of humor.

Boston Latino TV film critic Tim Estiloz reviews "The Avengers", the eagerly and long awaited super hero film from Marvel Entertainment and Disney Studios. Film opens in theaters May 5, 2012. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Joss Whedon, "Marvel's The Avengers" is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series "The Avengers," first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since.

Before writing this review, I must present a mild disclaimer here and admit to a shamelessly rabid fanboy devotion to Joss Whedon.  After all, the man who took a truly lamentable 1992 film called "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and literally reinvented and rejuvenated the lame big-screen screenplay into a truly innovative TV hit and enduring pop-culture icon… has me more than favorably partial to his work.

Like a lot of guys, I grew up gleefully watching syndicated reruns of The Three Stooges on TV, enjoying every absurd joke, poke and slap in the face the trio either offered up, or often endured themselves firsthand in their classic short films from their career heyday during 1930's-40's.  The comic misadventures and impeccably choreographed physical slapstick of Moe, Larry, Curly ( and eventually Shemp, as well ) was wonderfully immature and sophomoric humor at it's infantile finest.

The new film "American Reunion" is exactly how you might expect a real life high school reunion, rather disappointingly, to turn out to be.  Those anticipating to reconnect with old familiar friends and relive their glory days as if time has neither changed them, nor their life circumstance, are often doomed to face the harsh reality that nothing ever stays the same as you remember it.

For the better part of the last year, I've been hearing increasing buzz about something called "The Hunger Games".  As the buzz grew louder around me, like an approaching swarm of bees relentlessly demanding my attention; I eventually discovered The Hunger Games is a trilogy of popular books written by Suzanne Collins, about a grim contest for survival set in an equally grim future deeply divided by the haves and have-nots. 

Louis Ortiz, actor, entertainer and Obama impersonator, has been shaking hands, kissing babies, and yes, even making money in a slumping economy thanks to his uncanny resemblance to President Obama. Louis has drawn the attention of many local and national media outlets, and he is now being followed by filmmaker Ryan Murdock who is working on his documentary, "The Audacity of Louis Ortiz."

Boston Latino TV film critic Tim Estiloz interviews Will Ferrell, Gael Garcia Bernal and Genesis Rodriguez who star in the new film, "Casa De Mi Padre". Ferrell makes a film unlike any he's done before by working with an all Latino cast; and speaking in Spanish himself throughout the film. The film is a hilarious homage to Spanish telenovelas, 70's Mexican westerns and film in general.