The producers of Heneral Luna and acclaimed director Raya Martin (Buenas noches, España!) have teamed to film the upcoming adaptation of F.H. Batacan’s seminal mystery crime-thriller, Smaller and Smaller Circles. If that doesn’t give you the cinephilic tinglies, you might want to consider getting yourself checked. But you already know
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F.P.R. Dailies: ‘American Honey’ trailer, ‘Justice League’ logo, and other news
F.P.R. Dailies is a new feature which will collate news, features, and everything film-related that we think are worth sharing. It’s us wading the internet on the daily so you won’t have to. You’re welcome. Today, we have some more casting news on Marvel’s upcoming Spider-Man movie, a few exciting trailers, and, whaddayaknow,
Here’s the trailer for Ivan Payawal’s Cinemalaya entry ‘I, America’
Quickly dropping here the teaser-trailer for Ivan Andrew Payawal’s I America, an indie dramedy starring Bella Padilla. It looks gorgeous by the way, and that’s thanks to Carlo Mendoza, whom you might have heard me mention with films like Barber’s Tales and Ari: My Life With a King. Not much is known about its plot,
The trailer for queer drama ‘Closet Monster’ is straight-up Cronenbergian
A new trailer has been released for Stephen Dunn’s acclaimed queer drama Closet Monster—and it’s a sight for sore eyes, this gorgeous new film. Check out the trailer below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTgM1e8w05g cialis canada prescription Prior taking the dose it would be on them. It doesn’t mean in any respect that toys are
Here’s your first look at Paul Soriano’s latest ‘Dukot’
Quickly dropping here the teaser poster (and trailer) for Paul Soriano’s latest film, Dukot, a crime-thriller starring Enrique Gil. The film is produced by Star Cinema and Soriano’s own film outfit, Ten17P, responsible for the Berlinale-winning Lav Diaz film, Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis. Not much is known about its plot, but having
A healthy dose of movie trivia on James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’
James Cameron’s 1986 film Aliens is a continuation of the franchise’s thematic and conceptual tenacity. In it, a reversal of roles typically attributed to a certain gender makes the meat of the story. Where the Ridley Scott-directed 1979 original deals with a lot of issues concerning rape, Cameron’s sequel deals with an entirely
Mike Cahill is tapped to helm film adaptation of ‘Doctors’
Dash Shaw’s graphic novel Doctors can be described, in a gist, as a story of the dead being haunted by the living. The story follows “a doctor and his team who can go into a dead person’s consciousness in the form of a memory and temporarily bring them back to life.” It’s
Contemporary actors re-imagine iconic Alfred Hitchcock films in new Vanity Fair portfolio
Vanity Fair has released a portfolio of contemporary actors re-imagined as characters from Alfred Hitchcock films, and it’s glorious—I, of course, wouldn’t share if it isn’t the case. The portfolio is a collective work by photographers Julian Broad, Norman Jean Roy, Art Streiber, and Mark Seliger. In it, Naomi Watts
This Woodwork Artist Spliced Your Favorite Auteurs With Their Films
I’ve come across this astounding collection of woodwork art this morning. The pieces are created by a Seattle-based artist named Mike Leavitt, who, like any true cinephile would, took the phrase “the filmmaker becomes the film” literally. His latest art project, titled “King Cuts,” features great filmmakers spliced with characters
Deathly Infatuated Kiray Celis in trailer for Miko Livelo’s horror-comedy ‘I Love You To Death’
Quickly dropping this fun trailer for the new horror rom-com I Love You To Death. The takeaway: Kiray Celis falls for a man who may or may not be alive. The hook: it’s directed by Miko Livelo, who, if his 2013 film Blue Bustamante must be used as means for
‘Heneral Luna’ announces Deluxe DVD, premiere on free television, online streaming, and more!
Just in time for Independence Day, T.B.A. (Tuko, Buchiboy, and Artikulo Uno) is rolling out a multi-media blitz for their so-far biggest film Heneral Luna. Jerrold Tarog’s historical epic is slated for a number of releases across different platforms this month. The film is now available to stream on-demand on Cinetropa.com,
Here’s How You Can Shoot on Super 8 Film in the 21st Century
The discussion of shooting in negatives vs. shooting digital is a futile exercise; let’s face it, the latter is the more convenient and more economical way to shoot films. There is, however, a sense of discipline completely lost with favoring bits of memory over rolls of celluloid. With film being
Charo Santos returns to acting in Lav Diaz’s new film ‘Ang Babaeng Humayo’
Charo Santos just dropped some major news today: she had just finished filming for Lav Diaz’s new film Ang Babaeng Humayo. The nonchalance with which this bit of information is announced escapes me; I share with Richard Bolisay (who took to Twitter to share the news) a feeling of welcome
‘The Man From Earth’ sequel begins filming June
I’ve come to drop by quick on a Sunday, unsure if I bear good or not-so-good news. The 2007 cult-favorite science fiction film The Man From Earth is getting a sequel and filming is set to start next month. The new film is titled The Man From Earth: Holocene. “People
Akira Kurosawa storyboarded films in paint, take a look!
Guess what? Akira Kurosawa, a filmmaker revered by filmmakers you revere, used to be a terrific painter. An even bigger guess-what: he hand-painted storyboards for many of his films. We have quite a few of them attached here. And I know, this is not some secret locked away in the
Jake Gyllenhaal reunites with director Denis Villenueve for his new film
Jake Gyllenhaal’s last great film is Nightcrawler. (Spare us with your “what about Man Bites Dog” contradictions; Dan Gilroy’s 2014 film on the extremities of ruin media is great in its own right.) Meanwhile, last year’s Southpaw is weighed down by a completely hosed narrative, and Everest relegates ol’ Jake in the permafrozen background. Not
Andrew Garfield stars in a noir crime thriller, ‘It Follows’ director at helm
The quiet and listlessness of American suburbia are a looming presence in the films of David Robert Mitchell, director of independent sleepers The Myth of the American Sleepover and It Follows. The news of a crime film being produced with him at the helm, therefore, is an interesting discovery on
This Week In Trailers: ‘The Neon Demon’, ‘Saving Sally’, ‘How to Build a Time Machine’, and more!
This week in trailers: Elle Fanning star in a Nicholas Winding-Refn drama about the dog-eat-dog world of modeling; Rhian Ramos falls for the geek in Avid Liongoren’s Saving Sally; and a man sets out to build a time machine to reconnect with his deceased father. Here’s a list of trailers
The Ultimate Guide to the 2016 Sinag Maynila Independent Film Festival
Sinag Maynila is back in its second year, with five hard-edged indies by young Filipino filmmakers Adolf Alix Jr., Ato Bautista, Gino Santos, Jay Altarejos, and Mes de Guzman. The independent film festival is the brainchild of Wilson Tieng (of Solar Entertainment Corporation) and renowned filmmaker Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay), who,
‘Godzilla Resurgence’ releases first trailer, and it’s glorious!
Folks, it’s here. The trailer for Hideako Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s Godzilla Resurgence (a.k.a. God Godzilla) has just been released, and it looks hands-down, glory-be-to-Godzilla gorgeous. It’s pretty much just ol’ Gojira casually stomping on some sleazy Japanese town, mighty towering in his stride, with Shiro Sagisu’s epic score blaring.
This Week In Trailers: ‘The B.F.G.’, ‘Just The 3 Of Us’; ‘Rogue One’; and more!
O.K., we have much to cover. This week in trailers is an interesting mix of stories of fatherhood: John Lloyd Cruz fathers Jennylyn Mercado’s child in the rom-com Just The 3 Of Us; Mel Gibson, in Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, pours out his aggressions at his daughter’s captors; and Billy
Daniel Radcliffe’s farts and more in the ‘Swiss Army Man’ first trailer
A common topic among this year’s Sundance reviews and reportages is that of Daniel Radcliffe’s strangely practical flatulence in Swiss Army Man, a film that puts Disney’s Finding Dory on an acid trip. The film is written and directed by Daniels, the directing duo of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, and finds a man
This Week In Trailers: ‘Elemento’, ‘Lights Out’, ‘Patayin Sa Sindak Si Barbara’
This week in trailers, horror films spill. Chito Roño’s 1995 horror classic Patayin Sa Sindak Si Barbara gets restored; James Wan’s Conjuring 2 has the Warrens on a difficult paranormal case; and the feature adaptation of the viral short film “Lights Out” debuts its first trailer online. Also, two teaser-trailers
Teaser for Quark Henares’ new film ‘My Candidate’ debuts
Quantum Films just debuted this teaser-trailer for Quark Henares’ latest My Candidate, a romantic-comedy set at the heart of a senatorial election. The film stars Derek Ramsay as Sonny Suarez, a senatorial candidate who runs against his former lover, Vera Sanchez (Iza Calzado), seemingly the type of conservative that the lower-class
Oscar Isaac and Alex Garland reunite for Jeff Vandermeer adaptation ‘Annihilation’
Alex Garland’s Shelley-esque science fiction-thriller Ex Machina is one of the best to come out last year and surely is deserving of its acclaim and commercial success. In Garland’s second film, he’s re-enlisting Oscar Isaac, the actor who in their previous teaming-up played the philanthropist tycoon, Nathan Bateman, to join
