Jun Robles Lana, alongside The Idea First Company, is hosting a screenwriting workshop free for aspiring screenwriters ages eighteen to forty. The writer-director of the acclaimed Bwakaw and Barber’s Tales, Lana is a terrific storyteller and taking advantage of this free workshop looks like a smart move for anyone who
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Watch: Official trailer for Dan Villegas’s ‘English Only, Please’ debuts online
The three consecutive films released this year under the direction of Antoinette Jadaone—Beauty in a Bottle, Relaks, it’s Just Pag-Ibig and That Thing Called Tadhana—are all triumphs. They are works that punctuate on their genres (comedy and romance), while refusing insistent conventions. They are products of a refinement that is
Four hours of bonus content to come in upcoming ‘Ang Nawawala’ DVD release
Digital distribution in the Philippines is at a depressing point where home video is alarmingly scarce. Case in point: if you walk in a video store, you’d find six to seven racks of Hollywood titles and only one dedicated for local films. That rack, as you may have guessed, has
Two new Lana Del Ray songs in Tim Burton’s ‘Big Eyes’
That Oscar snub at Lana Del Ray’s soundtrack contribution to Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby robbed her track “Young & Beautiful” due recognition. But that is a thing in the past, and if she isn’t front-lining the soundtrack for the next Bond film, she can always find work elsewhere, as she has now in Tim
Watch: Teaser for Erik Matti’s ‘Kubot: The Aswang Chronicles 2’
We have been itching to share this with you; this statement being inspired by so much hair in this teaser. Erik Matti’s Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles pushed past budgetary constraints and made for a thrilling, full-on asuang film. The backdrop is entirely blue/green-screened, the majority of its environment added in-post. It is fair to describe
Watch: The ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ trailer is here ahead of schedule; blame Hydra.
Marvel has taken to Twitter its explanation for the week-ahead release of their very much-awaited sequel epic Avengers: Age of Ultron. “Dammit, Hydra,” the tweet says. Marketer’s scheme or not, there will be excitement surging from all your social media. Be forewarned. Because the trailer is all the things you would expect: it is massive,
Watch: Motion comic for Mervin Malonzo’s komiks ‘Tabi Po’
Those who have read Mervin Malonzo’s utterly terrifying first-volume of the “asuang” graphic-epic Tabi Po should be itching by now to get their hands on Isyu 2. Especially after how Isyu 1 ended with such a cliffhanger. The first volume opens with “pasintabi kay Rizal,” but let it not fool you! Besides the ode to
Scarlett Johansson as Motoko in live-action adaptation of ‘Ghost in the Shell’
Not that the prior eyed actor actually “looked” the part–that would be Margot Robbie (of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wallstreet fame, had already said yes to comic-to-film adaptation of Suicide Squad)–it can be said that fans of the 1995 animé feature Ghost in the Shell are still somewhat sour with the casting decisions
FX: ‘American Horror Story’ is renewed for fifth season; no Jessica Lange?
Last week’s premiere of the much-anticipated fourth season of FX’s horror anthology series American Horror Story is promising. This may be applied to how the season starts off—with twin-headed oddities Bette and Dot (both played by Sarah Paulson) “literally walking to the gates of hell”’—as well as how it performs
Marvel confirms end of ‘Fantastic Four,’ forrealz this time
After a half-decade sway of cancellations and re-launches, Fantastic Four is officially cancelled. And while that rings much finality, think not. Although current FF writer James Robinson confirms that “the book is going away for a while” at this year’s New York Comic-Con and presses that there will be no
TSZ #3: ‘Gone Girl’ (2014)
THE SPOILER ZONE is a haven (on a different dimension, perhaps? Erm, doesn’t matter…) in which one can further discuss a film most elaborate and insightful as possible, in hoping that for a deeper understanding on said film. Here spoiler-y details not only allowed, but encouraged. So step out or proceed
Watch: Trailer for ‘Ilustrado’: the first ‘Bayaniserye’ in PH television
Serving as annex to its main network, GMA News TV has apparently been pushing the boundaries of local television with the TV series productions of its News and Public Affairs division. Over the past few years, it has released numerous boundary-pushing series in the like of the striking Bayan Ko, which
Watch: Ed Sheeran’s music video for crooner single ‘Thinking Out Loud’
Ed Sheeran is considered first a crooner–the type that seems to fall in and out of love on a daily basis–with songs suffused with doe-eyed ragged charisma, as his breakthrough single ‘The Lego House.’ Sheeran is past beyond this point obviously, and beginning to make a slightly different mark with his sophomore
‘Gotham’ has found its Harvey Dent; Nicolas D’Agosto plays the role
Fox’s Gotham has booked an actor for the role of Harvey Dent. Nicholas D’Agosto, known most famously as the fictional doctor Ethan Haas in the Showtime drama Masters Of Sex, is officially on-board for the role which recurs in the first season of the DC series meant to precede the
Watch: ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ horrific stop-motion opening
As if Jessica Lange singing a Lana Del Ray song is not enough reason to prowl at this season’s pilot of American Horror Story, creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuck are spilling details non-stop that make binge-watching an even more impossible task. I have told friends the close possibility of it taking
TSZ #2: ‘Dementia’ (2014)
THE SPOILER ZONE is a haven (on a different dimension, perhaps? Erm, doesn’t matter…) in which one can further discuss a film most elaborate and insightful as possible, in hoping that for a deeper understanding on said film. Here spoiler-y details not only allowed, but encouraged. So step out, if you
Tell-All
A plot surrounding narcissistic famed-personas and root beer-eyed scheming “specimens” poses a prominent caution sign, and superimposed, when it is written by Chuck Palahniuk. The author of Fight Club lets ode to the Old Hollywood with his novel Tell-All, one of his most exhaustive works thus far (sparing Rant; that was
Your 100 hardly un-thought of favorite books, per Facebook chain posts; ‘Harry Potter’ hailed #1
There is a notorious chain-post going around on Facebook, inspiring (seemingly) everyone to join in and list books that have stayed with or influenced them. The unofficial mechanics follow: “List 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take more than a few minutes, and don’t think
TSZ#1: ‘The Gifted’ (2014)
THE SPOILER ZONE is a haven (on a different dimension, perhaps? Erm, doesn’t matter…) in which one can further discuss a film most elaborate and insightful as possible, in hoping that for a deeper understanding on said film. Here spoiler-y details not only allowed, but encouraged. So step out, if you
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Thank God it’s ‘Sabado’ [bukas]! The new music video from Eraserheads is here…
Taking to his Facebook profile this morning, Erik Matti shares the latest of his labors of love: a music video, in true laid-back E-heads spirit, for what is set to be their comeback hit, Sabado (click here to read our track review). The video, commissioned by Esquire Philippines (whose special September issue is
Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel ‘Hansel & Gretel’ lands film adaptation
Despite the timid success of the recent Jeremy Renner-starring Hansel & Gretel film, another one is being pushed through, this time taking Neil Gaiman’s same-name graphic novel as source material. It is worth to note that Gaiman’s graphic novel breathes a much bleaker air than last year’s Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, which
First-Look at ‘Thor #1’ Teases Female Thor
There is just about countless things to happen upon the emergence a brand-new Thor — “This is not She-Thor,” notes writer Jason Aaron. “This is not Lady Thor. This is not Thorita. This is Thor. This is the Thor of the Marvel Universe. But it’s unlike any Thor we’ve ever
Watch: Bloody Red Band Trailer for ‘ABC’s of Death 2’
The crimson-blood, very red-band trailer for the much-awaited sequel ABC’s of Death 2 is upon us; and it must have been a painfully slow wait but it looks like all is worthwhile. There’s one scene, for instance, in grim stop-motion and another, in true ABCs of Death form, putting a grotesque spin at
Neil Gaiman releases new short story collection this February
My introduction to Neil Gaiman’s shorter works of fiction is his A Study in Emerald (featured in his collection Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders) from which point I was compelled to read more of the English virtuoso, from his exceptional graphic novels to supremely re-tweetable one-line slices-of-life. Someone at Tumblr seems to share
Great job, internet! Watch this amazing Saul Bass-inspired alt-title sequence for ‘Game of Thrones’
Now that Game of Thrones fans have yet to sit through another lengthy wait for the next season, the internet is conspiring in order to supress the seemingly worldwide anxiety. George R.R. Martin — who promises to be a more flexible killer in his succeeding writing — is releasing his
