March 2017

Friday, March 31, 2017

Review of SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE: Soul-Searching Smurfette

March 31, 2017 The first two feature films about the Smurfs (in 2011 with its sequel in 2013) had been combination live action and animation...

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

March 30, 2017 "Ghost in the Shell" started as manga series written by Masamune Shirow in 1989 which told the story of a mid-21st ...

Saturday, March 25, 2017

March 24, 2017 Sci-fi horror is a genre of its own, with plenty of good examples, topped by "Alien" (1979) and its sequel "Al...

Friday, March 24, 2017

March 23, 2017 The Power Rangers is a television series for young kids featuring a group of five teenagers with superpowers working as a tea...

Thursday, March 23, 2017

March 23, 2017 There had been a lot of buddy cop movies involving one serious level-headed cop forced to work with a crazy wild cannon partn...

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

March 21, 2017 If you did not know about the 2007 bestselling novel written by Canadian writer William P. Young, there is nothing attractive...

Sunday, March 19, 2017

March 19, 2017 Locally this film was shown on a week together with the monster blockbuster remake of "Beauty and the Beast" which ...

Friday, March 17, 2017

March 17, 2017 "2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten" is the winner of the 2016 CinemaOne Originals film festival last November. I was not able to ...

Thursday, March 16, 2017

March 16, 2017 Disney's first version of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" (1991) was...

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

March 14, 2017 In Filipino, the title word "Kristo" means two very different things. The meaning familiar to more people is "...

Sunday, March 12, 2017

March 13, 2017 I literally groaned when I first saw the trailer of "Kong: Skull Island." Really? Yet another Kong movie, barely 10...

Saturday, March 11, 2017

March 11, 2017 There is a classic charm I like about film noir. It is always a welcome treat to see a current film try to recreate those sty...

Friday, March 10, 2017

March 9, 2017 The 2017 Sinag Maynila Film Festival is being held from March 9 to 14 in SM Megamall, SM North EDSA, Glorietta, and Gateway. T...

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

March 8, 2017 Among Filipino superstitions, a most curious one is "usog." This is supposed to be a curse imparted by a stranger wh...

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

March 7, 2017 "Trainspotting" was a celebrated British film in 1996 which dealt about a gang of young heroin addicts living in the...

Saturday, March 4, 2017

March 4, 2017 Hugh Jackman had been playing the Marvel character Wolverine for 17 years. He was in all 3 of the original X-Men films, as wel...