Review of GET OUT: Suspense in Social Satire

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

Review of 2 COOL 2 BE 4GOTTEN: Confessions from the Closet

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 ...

Review of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017): Enchanting Evermore

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

SINAG MANILA 2017: Review of KRISTO: A Cockpit Chronicle

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

Review of KONG: SKULL ISLAND: Awesome Ape Action

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

Review of A KIND OF MURDER: Nixed Noir

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...

SINAG MANILA 2017: Review of TU PUG IMATUY: Lumad Lamentation

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...

Review of PWERA USOG: Salvation by Saliva

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

Review of T2 TRAINSPOTTING: Mellowed by Middle-Age

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

Review of LOGAN: Mutants in Mangled Misery

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...