78: Mamitas (LAFF 2011)

E.J. Bonilla in Mamitas

(This year’s Los Angeles Film Festival may have drawn to a close, but I have a steady backlog of entries to work through…) At times, Mamitas (the feature debut of writer-director Nicholas Ozeki) doesn’t know what it wants to be: parts of it are teenage romance replete with sizzling repartee, before it segues into family [...]