Derick Cabrido’s ‘Tuos’ evinces an awe-inspiring tension between its weighty subject; the emotional manipulation of accepting and rejecting the responsibility of a ‘binukot’ practice and the sophisticated animation of ‘Sugidanon: Tikum Kadlum,’ this creative fissure works in the film’s favor which strengthens its artistic qualities. Drawing from its cultural aspect
Author: Kenneth Borlan
A NOMAD UNDER THE CLOUDS.
Go ahead and load up your heart, slip on your dreams, and crank up the tunes of your pulse. Who knows where these will take you.
‘Heneral Luna’ earns 11 nominations as Luna Awards return
Organized in 1983, the Film Academy of the Philippines Awards Night is an annual event commemorating the bests of the movies. Not until 2005 when they organizers decided to rename the award giving body and that is where ‘Luna’ was chosen among the 221 names submitted in the contest. Due
Philippines’ bet for Academy’s Best Foreign Language
Granted that Filipino indie films can now easily sneak into the mainstream, several films this year got recognition whether in the local box office or in the international arena. Still, that won’ an assurance to be our entry at the Academy Awards. As we get closer to the Oscars season,
Dahling Nick
The extraordinary brilliance of Dahling Nick is fully realized in its interviews with figures in Nick Joaquin’s life such as: National Artists for Literature Bienvinido Lumbera and F. Sionil Jose; Nick’s niece Charo Joaquin Villegas, his ultimate companion, Elena Roco; and even Communist Party of the Philippines founder, Jose Ma.
CineKasimanwa Tr3s showcases Visayan cinema; here are the schedules
Primed to surmount the international stage of filmmaking,[inlinetweet prefix=”@FilmPoliceRevs: ” tweeter=”null” suffix=”null”]Western Visayas’ CineKasimanwa Tr3s gathers the largest number of short films for a local festival[/inlinetweet]. Slated from December 8 to 13, the festival will screen almost 100 short films made by the filmmakers in the region. Celebrating its third
Brace yourself, Here come the 2015 MMFF New Wave finalists
The Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) just announced the lineup of films competing in their New Wave competition. The competition will be split into three categories: Full-Length Features, HOOQ Short Films, and Animation. All will be open-themed, making competition pretty steep as editors, writers, and directors — both old and new — are allowed
Charlie Kaufman breathes life into the odd and delightful stop-motion world of ‘Anomalisa’
Touring as a selection at numerous film festivals worldwide, Paramount’s acquisition, Anomalisa, might just lift the Academy Awards animation category a notch higher, stirring some competitive buzz against Pixar’s and Ghibli’s probable entries. Screenwriter-turned-director Charlie Kaufman, known for mind-boggling and inconceivable contemporary masterpieces: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, and Synecdoche, New York, ventures into the world of stop-motion
‘In the Heart of The Sea’ sails into the Oscars season with final trailer
Seafaring towards the heart of the Oscar season, director Ron Howard officially releases the final trailer of ‘In the Heart of The Sea,’ based Nathaniel Philbrick’s prize-winning nonfiction book, ‘In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.’ Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy , Ben Whishaw, Tom
Popoy, Basha reunite for ‘A Second Chance’ opens November 25th
The journey of Popoy and Basha is fairly foreseeable in some sense but after eight years, after their marriage, were they able to seal the loopholes, compensated the inner struggles and be able to understand and ultimately overcome their dissimilarities? Cathy Garcia – Molina (It Takes A Man and a Woman,
Johnny Depp and Edgar Wright share a quest of time travel and breakfast cereal in ‘Fortunately, the Milk’
From a mighty thin book with extremely generous number of unexplained series of events Edgar Wright (The World’s End, Shaun of the Dead) lavished some highly thought of high production value for Niel Gaiman’s ‘Fortunately, the Milk’ which will be out early of 2016. The adaptation of this blissfully inspired
J-Law “picks up the gun” in new trailer for ‘Joy’
David O. Russel (The Fighter, Three Kings) is back with a biographical comedy-drama called Joy with an astonishing ensemble: Jennifer Lawrence (Hunger Games), Bradley Cooper (Limitless) and Robert De Niro (The Godfather) reunite to deliver a film about a struggling single mother with three kids who conceived the ‘Miracle Mop’ and become a
Cinemalaya films screen at ‘Once Upon A Time in Boracay’ event
How dreamlike is it to watch great films with, the song of the sea calming your thoughts as you uncomplainingly seek for your place on a carpet floor covering the white sand of, let’s be real, actual human beings in very minimal clothes sat on the white sand beach of Boracay? I can only
Urduja Film Festival unveils first ‘Urduja Heritage Film Award’
The Urduja Film Festival honors films that promotes and preserves the country’s cultural and heritage values come to a conclusion as they officially unveil the winners of the 1st Urduja Heritage Film Awards. With all the outstanding movies nominated, a group of professionals gathered to screen all of the entries
Nicholas Sparks’ ‘The Choice’ unleashes torrent of tears from trailer
The Choice is the twelfth novel by Nicholas Sparks’ that is set to triumph at cinemas on February 2016. Stars Teresa Palmer (I am Number Four, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) and Benjamin Walker (In the Heart of the Sea, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) are turned for a passionate flavor with a heavy dose
To be or not to be ‘Cumberbatch’ in ‘Hamlet’ trailer
‘To be, or not to be–that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles’ Set in Barbican Theater in London with shedloads of money and drama maharishis, come the biggest production
‘Everyday I Love You’ — florets in Bacolod, Silay ‘The Paris of the South’
Fresh from their Just The Way You Are success, Enrique Gil and Liza Soberano — or more fondly called “LizQuen” — are back in a romantic-drama film, directed by Mae Czarina Cruz-Alviar (She’s the One, Bride for Rent and Crazy Beautiful You), set in the City of Smiles, Bacolod City. Everyday I
Sam Smith’s suffocating ‘Writing’s on the Wall’ for ‘Spectre’ is out – listen here
The cutting-edge, enthralling “Writing’s on the Wall,” set to accompany the new James Bond film, has been officially released this 25th of September and has instantaneously earned mixed reactions. My personal opinion – It is extraordinary, it is Spectre! Sam Smith has his own version of a superpower. I could identify
‘Dahling Nick’ revisits the inner world of Nick Joaquin on its trailer
The extended postponement is finished! Sari Raissa Lluch Dalena returns to Cinema One Originals Digital Films Festival with Dahling Nick, a biopic film dedicated to Nick Joaquin, National Artist of the Philippines for Literature. Sari is known for her exquisite style and unparalleled artistry which is technically visible in her works like
Fearsome ‘Jeepers Creepers 3’, back in Cathedral
The winged-flesh eating monster, “the creeper” in Jeepers Creepers is back and ready to spread anxiety and death. This is a reunion of the original creative team behind the success of the first two films but the third installment sets the bar higher as Francis Ford Coppola joins the squad as
‘Heneral Luna’: Of chalk, paintbrush, sword and gun
Heneral Luna, the new film from Jerrold Tarog, is our Movie of the Week. In the space of a few articles and thought pieces, we hope to bring more insight to the film. Here’s to recounting our viewing of the film and how it defines heroism in the Philippines. …ikaw ang tahanan
Chloë Grace Moretz protects her own in ‘The 5th Wave’
Surviving in a world confounded by alien assault, The 5th Wave releases its first one-sheet artwork with a blurb “Protect Your Own.” The artwork illustrates Chloë Grace Moretz, Cassie, protecting her young brother from an invisible threat. The film accelerates as four waves Darkness, Destruction, Infection, Invasion dominate and annihilate the
Matt Damon reprises role as Jason Bourne
Bourne is back in the as-yet-untitled fifth Bourne film; more exhilarating, haunting and prevailing as Matt Damon reprises his (previous) role as Jason Bourne. Yes! This is confirmed by a tweet from Frank Marshall (producer of The Bourne Saga) earlier this morning as he joins Damon in the first day
Sam Smith teases singing ‘Spectre’ theme
A solitary tweet conquered the Twitterverse as we finally get an answer as to who will belt the theme song of this year’s James Bond installment Spectre. pic.twitter.com/0anlLMQSWZ — SAM SMITH (@samsmith) September 7, 2015 Over the last few months there is a widespread guesswork of who will be performing the song
A sentimental force of adventure looms in ‘Everest’
“We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality,” the exact words from John Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air” one of the personal accounts where Universal Pictures’ Everest develops its larger-than-life undertaking. Set in more than twenty nine thousand feet above sea level
Silong
To be among the fortunate few to see Silong in August 14th as Cinemalaya’s closing film – tense days followed as I continue to abridge the experience. There is this distinctive atmosphere of muddle, consternation, and abysmal expectation of how the film looks like or how this review will echo. Silong is shrouded
