Online entertainment platform Viddsee holds its third Juree Awards in the Philippines to celebrate and support filmmakers and film communities in Asia from September 27 to 29. Viddsee Juree Awards (‘Juree’) is an annual industry pick award celebrating best short films from Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Several screenings and talks
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These are the three documentaries to screen in QCinema 2019
QCinema is home to some of the finest independent-produced films in the country. They’ve just announced the three documentary films to receive post-production grant of P500,000 each, while retaining exclusive rights to their films. A move considered a breakthrough in most film festival circuits in the country. Jet Leyco’s For My
Pride Month Special: Internet Icon ‘The Babadook’ gets a special Blu-ray release
Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook gets fully confirmed LGBTQ++ status not only from the public consensus via the internet, but also from the folks at Shout Factory and IFC Midnight as they release this new Blu-Ray edition with a sparkly joyous cover just in time for Pride Month. “If it’s in
Monday One Sheet: Christopher Nolan’s TENET
Filming has begun for Christopher Nolan’s latest film ‘Tenet’ which will star Robert Pattinson, John David Washington, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Clémence Poésy, with Michael Caine and Kenneth Branagh. It’s no hidden secret that Christopher Nolan has long wanted to direct a reimagined James Bond franchise, but the 007 seems to
The Sun is Also a Star Review: Not even the galaxy would approve
Ah, young love. Ry Russo-Young’s The Sun is Also a Star is based on the New York Times’ Bestseller by Nicola Yoon. Crafted to make tweens, teens, and romcom fanatics fall in love with the concept of, well, love in a world dominated by diverse issues. The book is
A few things you need to know about ‘A Dog’s Journey’
Some friendships transcend lifetimes. This is the tagline for this summer’s heartwarming film “A Dog’s Journey” starring Josh Gad as the dog ‘Bailey’. We’ve heard fantastic reviews about the film so here’s a few things you need to know about the film as it opens today, May 15th. Josh Gad is
Festival Report: Notes on Sinag Maynila Film Festival 2019
Before we kick off towards a new film festival (QCinema??? PPP??? Cinemalaya??? CinemaOne Originals!??), we’d like to give a shout out to the last one we’ve been to. We even had a video version of our usual podcast route, courtesy of Contagious Inc. and perhaps this would open more episodes like
Cesar Hernando, a giant of Philippine Cinema
It is quite a sad day as reports of Cesar Hernando’s passing has circulated across Facebook, and in the midst of the 100 years of Philippine Cinema, we have lost one of it’s greatest masters. In his last work as a director, and his only full-length film ‘Gayuma‘ continuously brings
TRAILER: Sam and Isa meet again in ‘Tayo, Sa Huling Buwan ng Taon’
Years after breaking up, we find Sam and Issa living separate lives in this trailer for Tayo, Sa Huling Buwan ng Taon. Sam finds a new love with another teacher, Issa goes back to the mysterious Frank. The premise of ‘Ang Kwento Nating Dalawa‘ is simple, but the restraint of these
ANi trailer: First look of a dystopian Philippines in 2050
Feast your eyes on ‘ANi [The Harvest], Kim Zuñiga and Sandro del Rosario’s film debuts this Cinemalaya 2019. Kim Zuñiga and Sandro del Rosario makes their debut to Cinemalaya this August with the release of their science fiction film ANi [The Harvest] which tells the story of an orphaned boy
Directors’ Fortnight 2019 Lineup reveals new films from Lav Diaz and more
The Directors’ Fortnight 2019 lineup has been revealed. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs is set to bring back auteurs like Robert Eggers, Lav Diaz, and Takashi Miike, Betrand Bonello, and Rebecca Zlotowski to the festival. Spike Lee, and Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger than Paradise — the film that won him the Palme’ D’Or in 1994 — are among
Call your kids, the Secret Life of Pets 2 character posters are here!
We can’t get enough of these character posters shared to us exclusively by United International Pictures. Check out the gallery reel below: Synopsis: Urology clinics in Singapore are just among the medical experts and professionals, but also sildenafil professional among the average individual. pfizer viagra australia cute-n-tiny.com Therefore, a
Lav Diaz’s ‘The Halt’ joins this year’s Directors’ Fortnight
The Directors’ Fortnight 2019 lineup has been revealed. As announced on Tuesday, interesting titles coming from anticipated directors like Takashi Miike, Robert Eggers and Lav Diaz are inclusive of this non-competitive film showcase. Lav Diaz’s Ang Hupa (or The Halt) joins this year’s roster of films and is just one of the
Rocketman featurette: The makings of an icon as told by the cast
Elton John’s life comes to the big screen in Paramount Pictures’ Rocketman. From a young musical prodigy to one of the world’s biggest icons. This epic musical fantasy about the incredible human story of Elton John’s breakthrough years as directed by Dexter Fletcher, the film follows the fantastical journey of
The FIRST Pinoy Stoner film comes back to the screen on 04/20
Ahoy! Mark your calendars and scrap anything you know about stoner films. Because the first and reportedly one of the best Filipino stoner films is back in Manila! I hate to say I told you so, because there are gems in student films. SUPERPSYCHOCEBU is a perfect example. In Ara Chawdhury’s
The Perfection trailer reveals Netflix’s new horror thriller
The Perfection trailer is here! Allison Williams is back and this time she brings her A-Game with that nonchalantly stern charm while switching back to psychopath-mode real quick in this new trailer for The Perfection. As a quick safety precaution, the trailer will give you literal goosebumps and bugs and then somehow
Cuteness galore, the Secret Life of Pets 2 trailer is here!
As if the first one wasn’t cute enough. Hello! Columbia Pictures and Illumination has just released the latest trailer for The Secret Life of Pets! Watch as the trailer shows the emotional side of each characters from the first film: Here’s what we know so far: Erectile dysfunction is said to be
WATCH: The trailer for the new ‘The Addams Family’ is here!
Hello 90s kids! (and those feeling 90s kids), there’s a new The Addams Family opening in PH theaters soon, but this time it’s going to be animated! Yep, you read that right. And we’ve got dibs on the trailer below. Here’s what we know about it so far: Get ready to snap
Daniel Hui’s Snakeskin will be screening at the UPFI!
[Editor’s note: the following is a press release from Los Otros] Los Otros co-presents with UP Film Center a free screening of Daniel Hui’s critically-acclaimed second film, SNAKESKIN (2014), followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. “A striking vérité snapshot of present-day Singapore that doubles as a semi-mystical cinematic incantation
‘Captain Marvel’ is 7th highest grossing movie in the Philippines
Captain Marvel surely had a lot of mixed reviews especially with movie critics in the Philippines. Those reviews surely made the film stay in the box-office for four weeks now, making it the 7th highest grossing movie in Philippine history with figures ranging at $11.7 million. The film opened just
Eeerie: Paved with good intentions
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” I am reminded of these lines in thinking of a throughline for the Mikhail Red-directed horror film Eerie. Storywise, the film delivers commentary on how our institutions and internalized preconceptions can be the barriers preventing us from helping those with mental
5 Things We Know About This Year’s Sinag Maynila
SINAG MAYNILA was born in 2015, with the vision of Mr. Wilson Cheng and award-winning filmmaker Brillante Mendoza’s aspiration to help local indie filmmakers, it is now back with a variety of films from documentaries to full-length features which aim to educate festival-goers locally and internationally with it’s tagline Sine
WATCH: Easter flick Breakthrough, opens April 10
Good day folks! We’re sure you’re just as excited for Easter as we are (long vacay… Yes!) because there won’t be that much traffic. Just in time, we have the trailer for BREAKTHROUGH which stars Chrissy Metz, Josh Lucas, Topher Grace, Mike Colter, Sam Tramme, Dennis Haysberth, and fast-rising young
Kuya Wes, Neomanila, and Ulan opens today
Whooops. Looks like ‘Captain Marvel’ isn’t going to conquer the rest of the screens this March, as three Filipino films will (hopefully) be dominating Metro Manila cinemas today, March 13! The same goes for ABS-CBN’s REELive the Classics as it opens with Dolphy’s Captain Barbel and Fox Searchlight/20th Century Fox’s The
Bad Times at the El Royale, Hell is Other People
“Hell is other people.” Often quoted, frequently misrepresented, the phrase which originated from philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit—a play about three people trapped in a single room for all eternity—has been a favorite way to describe the inherent toxicity of relationships. Sarte though has long clarified that what he meant by
