Stripping off of her loud and raunchy caricatures, Ai-Ai de las Alas is cop-woman in-distress in Nick Olanka’s second Cinemalaya effort, Ronda in which she plays a patrolling policewoman forced to arrest her own son. We have the thirty-second teaser (see above video) and a couple of stills from the film. There
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“Latch” by Disclosure (ft. Sam Smith)
The irrepressible high of falling in love resonates in intoxicating surges of synthpop in Latch, Disclosure’s effusive and most ambitious track in their terrific debut album Settle — featuring UK singer Sam Smith. Accompanied by a music video that translates the track’s overall vibe (see above video), Latch winds through its pulsating beats, awash with transporting synth-waves by
Dean Koontz on Having Invented the Cross-Genre Novel: “that’s not correct.”
Dean Koontz is always two voices in one modest rhythm; he is author to supernatural thrillers and science-fiction paperbacks (the Odd Thomas books and Watchers, I enjoy very much), works that can go the extra mile of crazy (a scrabble-playing dog, for example, is unforgettable) but all at once can establish a work of
Bloody First Poster Confirms 2015 Release for Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight”
Like a dieting mom and a freshly-baked cinnabon, Quentin Tarantino and his upcoming western The Hateful Eight is in a complicated relationship: there was no knowing whether he was going to carry on with the project, not until last weekend’s Comic-Con, where he confirmed he is indeed engaging commitment to the project. The striking promo-poster,
MTV’s “Scream” Makes Initial Set of Casting
Yes, it is happening, in case you have not heard it around: a Scream television series is in the works, taking MTV for a home. Which should not necessarily be bad a thing, but then you have Sam Raimi’s upcoming Evil Dead series and with this you are struck with some sort of
Snowpiercer
Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho marks his momentous English-debut in Snowpiercer, a subversive, genre-melding and timely contemplation of an all-consuming society, confronted with an earth-wide layer of permafrost that renders humanity to near-extinction. What success The Wachowskis’ have achieved with their multi-dimensional odyssey that is The Matrix, Bong successfully achieves here with only
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Thrilling in every way but one, “X-Men: Days of Future Past” is the technically virtuous, wildly entertaining film that is to redeem its enduring franchise from its ostensible death marked by Brett Ratner’s butchered third film, “The Last Stand.” If this so-redemption hasn’t been done already in Matthew Vaughn’s 2011 prequel
The Sacrament
Ti West is among the very few contemporary genre filmmakers to receive much-deserved admiration: ‘tis from both the sizable fraction of the following he has cultivated over the years, people who enjoy most of all his abrupt third-act carnage; and the rest of his admiring audience, who perhaps are more
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The History of Sex on Cinema [Infographic]
In this loaded, nifty infographic, Fandor tracks back [the highlights of] the history of sex on film circa Edison Studios’ 1896 “The Kiss” (one of the first American films ever screened) up to Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color last year. Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain is a curious addition, where it
“1st Ko Si 3rd” Trailer (+Photos!): First Loves Lost, Second Chances Found
Nova Villa and Freddie Webb are reuniting as old first-time lovers in the upcoming Cinemalaya entry 1st Ko Si 3rd, Real S. Florido’s debut feature about first loves and second chances. Florido made the short film Parang Sirang Plaka, which played at Chicago Fil-Am Film Festival and was finalist at last year’s Cinemalaya since his A.D. efforts in
“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I” Gets a New Teaser-Trailer
In the unlikely case that you have settled down after all the geeky previews at the San Diego Comic-Con, here is yet one more to keep fan-saliva dripping. Francis Lawrence’s Mockingjay – Part I, the third film from the gargantuan young-adult franchise The Hunger Games, has released and made available online a new
Maleficent
Meant as a redemptive ticket for the iconic villainess (which, in all Disney-goodness, can mean Immediate Character Humanization, and this is), Robert Stromberg’s revisionist take on “Maleficent” is a curious retelling, though not exactly as great and just of the beastly wicked faery. Stromberg and writer Linda Woolverton’s logic here is
22 Jump Street
Unless Vietnamese Jesus is not enough indication, one must be able to predict that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s overtly self-knowing sequel “22 Jump Street” is about, first of all, taking things up a notch. Hopping from twenty-one to the next is not entirely a convincing prefiguration (it is our
