Chaotic kickoff
Various problems continue to hound the country’s hosting of the 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games with barely two days before it goes full blast at the…
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C1 Originals Reviews: ‘Yours Truly, Shirley’ and ‘O’
In the feel-good comedy Yours Truly, Shirley, Regine Velasquez-Alcasid plays the titular Shirley, a 50-year-old widow still grieving the death of her husband…
Art or Blasphemy? A Film on Sex and Catholicism
The short film from the 23-year-old Villanueva is a religious satire depicting a graven image of a patron saint called Saint Nena who comes to life every night.
Review | ‘Lola Igna,’ a fascinating character study
Roy focuses on an entirely different area of loneliness — a seemingly eternal existence
REVIEW: ‘Green Book’, a superficial portrait of racism
A buddy comedy-drama set in 1960s racist America, Oscar Best Picture contender Green Book is this award season’s The Help, or Hidden Figures — a “feel-good”…
Disturbingly #MeToo
All the events of this romantic-comedy, which was an entry at the last Metro Manila Film Festival, takes place inside the AG New World Manila Bay Hotel, which…
REVIEW: ‘Alpha, The Right to Kill’ is nothing new
Alpha, The Right to Kill is a spinoff of award-winning filmmaker Brillante Mendoza’s Netflix series Amo, which is a spinoff of his 2016 Cannes film Ma’Rosa.…
Netflix Review | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
There comes a rare time when a Netflix original movie pops up that is actually watchable. With the global streaming giant churning out original films at least…
REVIEW | Signal Rock: Smart and entertaining
In Signal Rock, Chito Roño takes us to the northernmost island of the entire Visayan archipelago — Biri Island, Northern Samar. Then he zooms us in on one of…
REVIEW | The Day After Valentine’s
I didn’t know that working as help in a secondhand goods (ukay-ukay) store could be so lucrative that you could afford a round-trip ticket to Hawaii in one…
Cinemalaya 2018 report Part 2
CELESTE Legaspi and Ketchup Eusebio in Mamang. MAMANG
REVIEW | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Astonishingly, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is not budging from local theaters and is still going strong on its third week. The sequel-SLASH-prequel of the 2008…
REVIEW | The Write Moment
VALEEN Montenegro and Jerald Napoles play the unlikely couple in The Write Moment. There are plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, mostly when the story playfully…
REVIEW | Set It Up Rom-com for the weary
Armed with intimate knowledge of what turns on or turns off their bosses, they quickly swap calendars and intel and get Rick and Kristen to meet-cute and fall…
Light for the lumad
Q&A | FAMAS and Gawad Urian Best Director Arnel ‘Arbi’ Barbarona
Music and statements at the 41st Gawad Urian
Cast and crew of Best Film Balangiga Howling Wilderness Photos by Teddy Pelaez
REVIEW | ‘Ocean’s 8’ executes a middling heist
(From left) Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, Awkwatina, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway and Sarah Paulson Ocean’s 8 is visually…