Well-intentioned but at times insensitive, “Papi Chulo” is a complicated movie. It wants so badly to do the right thing when the situation is all wrong.Written and directed by John Butler (“Handsome ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In “Papi Chulo,” a scrupulously low-key and unassumingly ingratiating dramedy about the friendship forged between a ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- A red Ford Galaxie 500 convertible screeches to a stop at the curb, just like it has nearly a dozen times this afternoon, and the three women inside begin to bicker over a mutual lover.

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 ...

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 ...