These aren’t many films being made about poetry, which is why I’m glad to see that the [inlinetweet prefix=”The ” tweeter=”@FilmPoliceRevs” suffix=”. #MMFFNewWave”]Kapampangan drama Ari: My Life with a King is playing at the upcoming MMFF New Wave. Take a look at the trailer[/inlinetweet] above. The film is set in Pampanga, a city
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Watch Sid Lucero do different levels of Tom Cruise in trailer for ‘Toto’
Different levels of Tom Cruise? Ha! Get it? Save for its protagonist’s knack for Cruise’s shades in movies, the new film Toto has nothing to do with the Dorian Gray of Hollywood Action. Instead, it pivots around a young man (played by Sid Lucero) who will do every thing that will get him a
First trailer for Bryan Singer’s ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ debuts online
[inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”@FilmPoliceRevs” suffix=”#XMenApocalypse”]The trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse just dropped, and man is it everything you want to see![/inlinetweet] (This is what you wanted, right?) You can watch it right up here, and down below you can drop your own bombs—in the comments! The film, directed by Bryan Singer, is
‘Sadako Vs. Kayako’, starring a woman unlucky enough she’s cursed, twice
So. This is what it has become. We have officially crossed over (ha! Me and my puns!) to the abyss of no return—the franchise crossovers. You would think it natural for Jason Voorhees and Freddy Kreuger, but not for Sadako and Kayako. You would think it’s Western Spirit, the kind
‘The Legend of Tarzan’ teaser debut: Skarsgard’s body is just not of this earth
Remember Alexandar Skarsgard (a.k.a. The Body That’s Just Humanly Impossible)? The ladies of the world sure do; a vampire with true super erotic powers is hard to come by these days. Well, the Swedish actors now top-bills the new film The Legend of Tarzan, an action-adventure which looks to expand
These ‘Ip Man 3’ character posters will make you want to buy an extra wall
The much-anticipated threequel [inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”@FilmPoliceRevs” suffix=”#IPMAN3″]Ip Man 3 just dropped six character posters on us, and hot damn are they fine[/inlinetweet]. Directed by Wilson Yip, the film basically tells us how modern-day Bruce Lee and the Iron Mike (Donnie Yen and Mike Tyson, respectively) became best friends, and then the
‘The Nice Guys’ Trailer: Crowe and Gosling swing in Shane Black’s latest
If the freshly-released red-band trailer for The Nice Guys is any indication, Shane Black looks to deliver a groovy action comedy with headliners Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. Not that the man needs much to boogie–his latest effort, the gargantuan Iron Man-threequel with frequent collaborator Robert Downey Jr., while crippled
Michael B. Jordan on daddy issues and his new film ‘Creed’
Creed—the most recent in the iconic Sylvester Stallone-starring Rocky film series—casts a tiger-eyed Michael B. Jordan as boxing newcomer Adonis Johnson. Jordan’s Adonis (a pun I imagine that the ladies will overuse pret-ty soon) is torn inside: he lives in the shadow of his father’s legacy whom he didn’t get the chance to know. It sounds
The official MMFF trailer for ‘Honor Thy Father’ is here!
Erik Matti makes happy pandas tonight. [inlinetweet prefix=”WATCH:” tweeter=”@FilmPoliceRevs” suffix=”#MMFF2015 #honorthyfather”]The official trailer for MMFF entry Honor Thy Father has just been released[/inlinetweet] via Facebook (like their page here!), a few hours after this new groovy one-sheet. The film, written by Matti’s frequent collaborator Michiko Yamamoto, finds a family “caught in a financial ruin after being involved
Slick MMFF one-sheet for ‘Honor Thy Father’ confirms the film gets to retain title
We’ve all been walking on tightrope as days to the upcoming Metro Manila Film Festival go by. For a time we were under the impression that the film Honor Thy Father, directed by Erik Matti and starring John Lloyd Cruz, is going to play in the festival retitled Conman. While the latter isn’t “wtf that’s
‘A Monster Calls’ Teaser: Bayona’s latest summons monstrous yew tree
It’s weird to receive promotional material for a film that comes out still a year later. P.R., for how we’ve come to perceive it, is a game of professional cramming. Yet a teaser trailer for J.A. Bayona‘s latest—the low fantasy adventure A Monster Calls—is just released eleven months away from its release. This
Ben Wheatley to remake ‘The Wages of Fear’, and we’re up our butts about it
On fuck yeah! news: Ben Wheatley is in talks to write and direct a remake of the Henri-Georges Clouzot classic The Wages of Fear. William Friedkin already made a sort-of remake with his 1977 film Sorcerer which, while technically a flop during its initial release, proves to be more valuable in Friedkin’s oeuvre as recent reappraisals insist. Wheatley, whose best-known
Bukod Kang Pinagpala
Faith is its own logic. That’s one reason why religion isn’t a recurring topic at open mics. No one will laugh at those jokes—unless in the audience there’s Donald Trump. Such sensitivities are important in such a sensitive country, but Sheron Dayoc slips in one joke that he knows will crack
C1 Originals 2015 Awards Night: ‘Manang Biring’, ‘Dayang Asu’ win big
Cinema One Originals is nearing to a close yet cinephiles remain restless. Miguel Gomes‘ latest, the three-parter Arabian Nights, are playing in parts tonight, tomorrow and on Tuesday night (see the full schedule here). Lots of screenings of competition films to those who need to catch up, too. Rest, as the saying goes, is
Carl Papa on his new film ‘Manang Biring’
A scene midway through Manang Biring is the film’s most affecting: in a cab, Biring (Erlinda Villalobos) and her friends plan for Christmas. They talk about the menu, the budget, the people who’ll come. It’s an innocuous moment—it should be, it’s three people simply planning for the forthcoming holiday—but knowing that Biring
Cinema One Originals 2015 Screening Schedules
The promotional materials for this year’s Cinema One Originals Film Festival are always emblazoned with the phrase: kakaiba ka ba? An invitation, it seems, to embrace eccentricities. The lineup they are pushing forward this year doesn’t veer away much from that slogan: films from Yorgos Lanthimos, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Hou Hsiao-Hsien are playing under the
Poster and first-look photos for Angelina Jolie’s latest ‘By the Sea’
Spouses, for some reason, prove prolific together in a film production. A quintessential example is Godard and his wife Anna Karina, whose marriage, while short-lived, paved the way for great films like Pierrot le Fou (1965) and Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableau (1962). Noel Marshall essentially dragged his then wife Tippi Hedren to the wild, making one of the
Filmmakers and critics share their go-to horror films for Halloween
To those who are staying in for Halloween—I know, we had plans too!—having a horror movie marathon with family and friends is customary. In our household, the schlockier the films, the better. But because we like it meta, we mostly just marathon the Halloween series. Some years, though, call for
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is having its Philippine premiere at this year’s QCIFF. See screening schedules here. This review is taken from the author’s blog dated April 5th. Critics have invoked a shortlist of forebears to Ana Lily Amirpour’s ovni: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014). The general consensus
Watch indie-horror ‘Jennifer Help Us’ online for free
While everyone is on a state of Halloween euphoria, filmmaker Juan Ortiz makes his independent horror film Jennifer Help Us available to everyone for free. The supernatural thriller is made under a lo-fi budget and shot entirely using an iPhone 4s. It just premiered at a small horror film festival in
Cinema One Originals 2015 announces lineup
Rest is for the wicked, so as QCIFF is hushing to a close, Cinema One Originals (“C1Origs” to the hipper club) is at work building momentum in time for its opening night on November 8. They just released their lineup for this year’s edition of the fest. Some reason(s) to excite
QCinema 2015 Winners: An annotated list
We soldiered on through EDSA traffic for the past few days. We’ve seen a very good slew of films for that we endured. That feeling, may I just say—and I’m trailing a treacherous path here, the risk of sounding like a total romantic—leaves me to accept that film festivals is
The Last Pinoy Action King
When he died it was like losing a Jedi Master,” says a wide-eyed Sharon Cuneta, voice hoarse and on the verge of breaking, perhaps unaware of the great service she serves the documentary. In Sharon being Sharon, filmmakers Andrew Leavold and Daniel Palisa found their movie. It’s an unassuming quote—a product of wit and sincerity
Here’s your ultimate QCinema 2015 festival primer
Running jokes are almost customary among cinephiles. One which in my book doesn’t get old is that festival season, like the one that’s upon us, is anticipated in collective anxiety it becomes the unofficial Winter to our Westeros—what with the dreaded pre-fest schedule-plotting and unavoidable thinning of the wallet. For
Death by Activism: Stray Observations on Eli Roth’s ‘The Green Inferno’
2015 is quite the substantial year for director Eli Roth—two of his films see limited worldwide releases, unsurprisingly to an almost cult-like fan reception. His newest film Knock Knock starring Keanu Reeves opens in Philippine theaters today; Armando Dela Cruz remembers his previous effort, the pompous, internet troll-like satire The Green Inferno. This
