January 2017

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Review of THE GREAT WALL: Reptilian Ridiculousness

January 29, 2017 The topic of this film interested me a lot -- the Great Wall of China. I had my apprehensions about Matt Damon being one of...

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

January 24, 2017 The career of Ian Veneracion has been on a continuous upswing since his career came back in a major way as Eduardo Buenavis...

Monday, January 23, 2017

January 22, 2017 As I have mentioned before, I am not a fan of Ben Affleck's acting. I thought his best performance when when he played ...

Sunday, January 22, 2017

January 22, 2017 The first "xXx" film was shown in 2002. We got introduced to Xander Cage (Vin Diesel), a skilled professional ath...

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

January 18, 2017 M. Night Shyamalan earned phenomenal success writing and directing "The Sixth Sense" in 1999, which even earned h...

Thursday, January 12, 2017

January 12, 2017 This film was called "Patriots Day" because it was on this holiday that the Boston Marathon is held, and on a par...

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

January 11, 2017 This is one of the most acclaimed films for the awards season of 2016. It had been topping various critics lists for Best P...

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

January 9, 2017 For the year 2016, I was able to watch 28 Filipino films (up from 17 in 2015). However, it had not been easy for me to catc...

Monday, January 9, 2017

January 8, 2016 There are 5000 people from planet Earth hibernating on board the spaceship called the Avalon. They are going to wake up in 1...

Saturday, January 7, 2017

January 6, 2017 The Moon Theater owned by koala Buster Moon is facing financial troubles. To save the theater, Buster thought of a singing c...

January 07, 2017

January 7, 2017 The last animated film that I recall from the MMFF was "RPG Metanoia" back in 2010 and that was very good. For bei...

Friday, January 6, 2017

January 5, 2017 This film had been receiving very bad reviews since it was shown Stateside last month. It was notoriously the worst opening ...

Thursday, January 5, 2017

January 5, 2017 "Die Beautiful" earned a lot of pre-festival buzz because it won Audience Choice and Best Actor for star Paolo Bal...

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

January 4, 2017 Based on the trailer alone, this was the first choice of the eight entries in this year's Metro Manila Filmfest that I w...