Desperado (1995) is an action-packed, stylized crime thriller directed by Robert Rodriguez. The film stars Antonio Banderas as the mysterious, guitar-playing hitman known as El Mariachi, who seeks ...

Funny, in a way, that Desperado isn’t much talked about as a contemporary Western. Maybe it was by default when it first came out, and maybe 30 years is too long for the word “contemporary” to still ...

These days there’s nothing inherently exotic about Mexican food. Independent Mexican eateries dot our region’s culinary landscape, offering Americans an inexpensive taste of south-of-the border ...

The comparisons with “Pulp Fiction” seem inevitable. Like friend and fellow director Quentin Tarantino’s recent hit, Robert Rodriguez’s “Desperado” is a wild ride filled with blazing guns, gallons of ...