Something feels right about seeing Judy Ann Santos-Agoncillo on screen. Kusina (Eng. title: Her Kitchen) opens with her giving a smile, and her presence alone commands attention; immediately we are drawn in. We don’t see her again until much later, and while the scenes without her work adequately, the film
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Trailers! Trailers! Trailers! All of the trailers released at SDCC2016
San Diego Comic-Con has always been the go-to place of studios to share major news about their upcoming projects, may it be casting announcements, exclusive clips, or slip-ups by actors during Q&As. This year’s con is no different. Marvel finally confirmed the long-rumored casting of Brie Larson as Captain Marvel. They
Ryan Gosling serenades Emma Stone in new ‘La La Land’ trailer
Electrifying, exhilarating and astounding – Whiplash is probably one of the best psycho-thriller films of this decade, where director Damien Chazelle demonstrates his clear grasp of how film can be defined by music. La La Land, his follow-up to this Oscar darling, is set in contemporary Hollywood, but what this
Paddy goes home in trailer for ‘Looking: The Movie’
HBO has just released the trailer for Looking: The Movie, the feature-length finale to the critically acclaimed series. Despite good reviews, the show failed to get renewed for a third season because of low ratings, much to the dismay of its small but passionate fan base. Looking tells the story
How films dictate how we feel through editing
What is your actual editing process? This is the question that Tony Zhou attempts to answer in his and Taylor Ramos’ new video essay over at Every Frame A Painting. Titled “How Does an Editor Think and Feel,” the video describes, or at least tries to, the process that an editor goes
Cinema One Originals, QCinema reveal 2016 lineup
Major local indie film festivals Cinema One Originals and QCinema, via their respective Facebook pages, both announced on Wednesday their lineups of competing films for 2016. For C1 Originals, the finalists were selected by a panel headed by Ronald Arguelles that included director Jade Castro and critics Oggs Cruz and Richard
Cannes 2016 reveals Official Selection, Brillante Mendoza part of Main Competition
The Philippines is on a roll in the Big Three! Coming on the heels of Hele sa Hiwahang Hapis‘ inclusion in Berlinale’s Main Competition, Cannes Film Festival president Pierre Lescure and artistic director Thierry Fremaux announced Thursday that Brillante Mendoza’s Ma’ Rosa will compete for the highly coveted Palme d’Or. This is the director’s
Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis
Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis (Eng. title: Lullaby for the Sorrowful Mystery) is eight hours long. Everybody knows it, the producers made sure of that. This focus on runtime, daresay superfluous for a Lav Diaz film, is unfortunate because it misrepresents what Hele actually is – an epic of magic realism that overlays
Geekly Bits of the Week: LEGO set reveals ‘Civil War’ spoiler, new ‘Batman v Superman’ clip released
Every week we catch you up on the latest goings-on on everything geek. Here are the past week’s highlights. Power Rangers Lionsgate has released the official synopsis of, as well as the people responsible for producing, the new Power Rangers movie. As per the studio: Saban’s Power Rangers follows five
J.J. Abrams is already talking about ‘Cloverfield 3’
Now that the Internet has calmed down a bit after all hell broke loose when a trailer for a 10 Cloverfield Lane suddenly dropped out of nowhere, the Internet is collectively asking a lot of questions about the movie. Is it going to feature the same monster? Are we ever going to
Geekly Bits of the Week: Live-action ‘Astro Boy’ in the works, ‘Spawn’ movie updates
Every week we catch you up on the latest goings-on on everything geek. Here are the past week’s highlights. Captain America: Civil War While Civil War is promising to deliver the biggest assembly of superheroes on the big screen since The Avengers, a number of supporting “human” characters are expected to take sides as
Geekly Bits Of The Week: ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ teases major death, more ‘Transformers’ movies confirmed
Every week we catch you up on the latest goings-on on everything geek. Here are the past week’s highlights. Thor: Ragnarok After various reports confirm that Mark Ruffalo will appear as The Hulk in Ragnarok, along with Cate Blanchett – who is rumored to play Hela, a goddess and ruler of the spirits of
Geekly Bits Of The Week: Elizabeth Banks joins ‘Power Rangers’, ‘Deadpool’ director’s cut “even more raw”
Every week we catch you up on the latest goings-on on everything geek. Here are the past week’s highlights. Star Wars: The Force Awakens Having earned $1.995 billion so far, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is expected to reach $2 billion at the global box office on Saturday, making it the third
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Recent calamities that wreaked havoc to the Philippines have inspired many a movie in the indie scene. Just last year alone, there were Brillante Ma. Mendoza’s Taklub, Pepe Diokno’s Above the Clouds, and Chuck Gutierrez’s Iisa. By setting these films in typhoon-stricken areas, the directors were able to use disaster
Full-bodied problems blow up in ‘Ang Taba Ko Kasi’ trailer
[inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”@FilmPoliceRevs” suffix=”#AngTabaKoKasi”]The trailer for ‘Ang Taba Ko Kasi’ has just been launched[/inlinetweet] on its Facebook page, and I can already sense the collective feeling of excitement that the struggles endured by fat people would finally be depicted on the big screen. Ang Taba Ko Kasi centers on Olga (Cai
Chloë Grace Moretz parties next door in ‘Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising’ trailer
Look! A shirtless Zac Efron! With his chiseled biceps and abs! is what I believe is the marketing strategy for Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. Taking cues from 22 Jump Street (which is hilarious) and The Hangover 2 (which is atrocious) – because every hit comedy movie should have a sequel –
‘The Revenant’, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ lead Oscars 2016 nominations
It’s a match between survival films at The 88th Oscars, with The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road garnering the most number of nominations. The announcement was made Thursday morning (Thursday night, Philippine time) at California by directors Ang Lee and Guillermo del Toro, actor John Kransinski, and AMPAS president Cheryl
Marvel enlists Ryan Coogler as director for ‘Black Panther’
Kevin Feige, president—and Supreme Overlord!—of Marvel Studios, has officially announced that Ryan Coogler, director of Sundance favorite Fruitvale Station and Rocky-spin off Creed, will direct Black Panther. In an official statement, Feige says: “We are fortunate to have such an esteemed filmmaker join the Marvel family. The talents Ryan showcased
New ‘A Bigger Splash’ trailer: Tilda Swinton…Tilda Swinton for days!
2016 will surely be an exciting year for fans of Tilda Swinton—Goddess of Cinema—who was mostly absent on movie screens in 2015. Aside from the Coen Brothers’ Hail, Caesar! and Marvel’s Doctor Strange, Tilda Swinton—Goddess of Cinema, wink—is set to play a David Bowie-like rock star in A Bigger Splash,
All You Need Is Pag-Ibig
There’s no point saying otherwise: All You Need Is Pag-Ibig is an attempt to make a Pinoy Love Actually. Written and directed by Antoinette Jadaone, AYNIP is an assortment of interconnected love stories among tangentially related individuals who believe that their pursuing of romantic love would lead them to their
Beauty and the Bestie
In one scene in Josh Radnor’s Liberal Arts, a character, frustrated over the success of a certain sparkling vampire book, asks, “So when millions of people like something, that means it’s good?” To which the other character wittily replies, “No, it means millions of people like it. These books make
Ari: My Life with a King
Geography and culture are largely intertwined. This is the thesis being put forward by Ari: My Life with a King, directed by Carlo Enciso Catu and written by Robby Tantingco. The film’s first shot is of Mt. Pinatubo, now quiet and majestic but had once wreaked havoc and forever transformed
‘Son of Saul’, ‘Mustang’ among the films shortlisted for Oscars’ Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the shortlist of films that advances in the Best Foreign Language Film category of The 88th Oscars. As in previous years, this year’s selection is a mixed bag of long-expected shoo-ins and surprising inclusions. The nine films that made the
‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ trailer takes us back to the wizarding world
An announcement trailer, which I wasn’t aware is a thing now, has just been released for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and potterheads (not to be confused with potheads!) all over the world are probably screaming, “Accio, November 2016!” as they, like me, are excited to once again
Aliens are back in first ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ trailer
“We always knew they would come back,” declares the trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence (sadly not related to the upcoming Toho-produced Godzilla Resurgence), a sequel that no one asked for but we’re getting anyway because every other movie from decades ago is either getting a sequel or being rebooted. It’s been
