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Hulu's new Spanish language boxing series La Mquina may not be directly based on a true story, but there are a lot of real-life inspirations behind the series, so here is the context that viewers need before diving into the critically acclaimed show. Although boxing has been a topic covered in all kinds of iconic films and TV shows like Rocky, Raging Bull, and more, La Mquina looks at how the world of Mexican boxing and crime overlap. The show's tense boxing storyline is incredibly interesting, and here are the real-life events surrounding Mexican boxing that inspired Hulu's La Mquina.

La Mquina comes from frequent collaborators Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, who have appeared together in iconic projects like Y Tu Mama Tambien. The duo's latest collaboration sees an aging boxer and his manager get caught up in a criminal scandal when they make a deal with a...

The 76th Locarno Film Festival is hosting one of the largest international retrospectives of Mexican popular cinema in decades, encompassing 36 titles of varying genres, from dramas to film noir as well as comedies, musicals, horror and sports.

Putting together “Daily Spectacle – The Different Seasons of Mexican Popular Cinema” took at least two years, according to writer and programmer Olaf Möller, who curated the selection alongside critic Roberto Turigliatto and in close collaboration with Filmoteca Unam director Hugo Villa and other key experts.

The unprecedented showcase of Mexican films ranging from the 1940s to the 1960s spans some 30 years of extraordinary creativity, which inspired subsequent generations of Mexican filmmakers.

Locarno first hosted a retrospective of Mexican cinema in 1957 but this new showcase goes beyond the Golden Age to more popular titles, with the oldest being “En Tiempos de Don Porfirio” (1940) and the youngest among them “Olimpiada en México”(1969), “two films that...