John Butler's engaging dramedy pivots on the improbable friendship between an Anglo TV weatherman and a Mexican day laborer in L.A. In “Papi Chulo,” a scrupulously low-key and unassumingly ...
A lonely weatherman hires a day laborer to be his pal in John Butler’s racially naïve buddy comedy. By Teo Bugbee When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we ...
One of Ni-chome’s newest bars (opened in summer 2004), Papi Chulos is a friendly place, welcoming all genders and nationalities. The agreeable, young, English-speaking master, Masa, enjoys ...
Tales of unlikely friendships where an explicit power imbalance is at play tend to suffer from their own saccharine aspirations. Refreshingly more incisive, Irish writer-director John Butler’s “Papi ...
Co-stars Matt Bomer and Alejandro Patiño establish an awkward chemistry in this peculiar dramedy about a Los Angeles gay man who hires an undocumented Latino dayworker to keep him company. Let’s say ...