I Like It Like That

I LIKE IT LIKE THAT is the charming, jam-packed, Latin-driven, attitude-to-burn feature film debut by 24-year-old Darnell Martin, whose pedigree includes NYU film school and a tour of duty with Spike Lee as an assistant camera person. Part of the same high-profile, equal-opportunity experiment by Columbia Pictures that brought nationwide exposure to John Singleton (BOYZ N THE HOOD) and Robert Rodriguez (EL MARIACHI), this is the first major studio project to be directed by a woman of color.

Lisette (Lauren Velez), a black Latina and mother of three, is living on 167th Street in the Bronx, a block that could have been airlifted straight out of DO THE RIGHT THING...