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
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‘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
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The ‘Teatrino Film Series’ 4th quarter line-up is here! [UPDATED]
UPDATE 2: From Teatrino: “Due to logistical issues, MAGKAKABAUNG will NOT be shown this Saturday at Teatrino. It will be replaced by QCinema 2015 Best Picture APOCALYPSE CHILD.” UPDATE: The final selections for the 4:30 screenings have now arrived. You can find them after the jump. Admit it, catching indie
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,
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
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
Let us all rejoice for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” opens a day early in the PH
Set aside all your woes this December Pinoy film fans for the seventh installment to Lucasfilm’s beloved franchise “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will open across the Philippines on Thursday, December 17 — a day earlier than it’s announced US premiere — as announced today by a spokesman of Walt
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
“American Ultra” Opens in Ayala Malls October 28th
Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart’s charming team-up is back with a new film, from the creator of teen superhero film “Chronicle” comes the intriguing thriller American Ultra along with Topher Grace (That 70’s Show, Spider Man 3). Here’s the film’s synopsis: A stoner and his girlfriend’s sleepy, small-town existence is disrupted when
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
The official trailer for ‘Everyday I Love You’ is out
Liza Soberano is torn between Gerald Anderson and Enrique Gil, as seen in this official trailer for Mae Cruz-Alviar‘s new romantic drama Everyday I Love You. I mean…the struggle, right? READ MORE: “Everyday, I Love You” teaser Here’s a brief synopsis of the film as previously written by our very own Kenneth
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
Meet “Spot and Arlo” in The Good Dinosaur’s Second US trailer
Last July, the first trailer for Disney-Pixar’s latest animated adventure-feature “The Good Dinosaur” was released. It came as a non-dialogue trailer which features a prehistoric earth, complete with dinosaurs and rare animals which I’m pretty sure will get an interesting introduction once the film hits theaters come November 25th. The
Intramuros to host 57 Shorts in ‘Cinema Rehiyon Reloaded 2015’
Hear Ye! Cinema Rehiyon Reloaded is back to showcase 57 short films from different regions in the country to be held in Manila on October 12- 13 at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Auditorium and at the Teatro in Fort Santiago, Intramuros. Cinema Rehiyon Reloaded is a project initiated by
Listen to our playlist of the music from ‘The Martian’; you know you want to
You’re no less of a person if you turned up during Ridley Scott’s latest, The Martian. Scott, aged seventy, is still able to make his work feel so vibrant and youthful it’s able to recognize the timeless magic Gloria Gaynor has on people. Admit it: you strut away with funk
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
A compendium of QCinema 2015’s international line-up
QCinema 2015 Festival Director, Ed Lejano, once said that “diversity” was one of the key features they were looking for in selecting the films for this year’s festival. Thus, with today’s announcement of QCinema 2015’s international line-up of films, it comes as no suprise that the selection is quite eclectic — composed of
Leonardo DiCaprio misunderstands “bear” knuckle boxing in new ‘The Revenant’ trailer
From the looks of it, Alejandro Iñárritu, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, and company are all ready to put up a hell of a fight this awards season with their new revenge drama The Revenant. Inspired by true events, the film tells the tale of American explorer Hugh Glass (DiCaprio), who is
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
Jim Libiran’s ‘Ninja Party’ screens at UPFI this October
UPDATE: ‘Ninja Party: Director’s Cut’ will also be screening at the Isetan Cinerama and Market Place, Mandaluyong starting September 30. Jim Libiran’s Ninja Party is having a limited run at UPFI Videotheque this October. To the uninitiated: no, this is no hacking-and-slashing type of ninja film. Many have tried and failed. The
‘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
