Robert Rodríguez's "Machete," the New Zapatista - By Alejandro Riera (Café Magazine)

Machete is a film Tea Partiers, what’s left of the Minutemen and supporters of Arizona’s SB-1070 law will love to hate. Latinos everywhere will eat it up (in fact, I can’t think of a better audience to watch the film with). It is, first and foremost, an exploitation film of the best kind: outrageously over-the-top. But Machete is also the best piece of agit-prop pop culture I have seen in a long long time ... read more