Director James Wan, who is slowly becoming a household name, ups the ante with another haunted house fright fest in The Conjuring 2, following the
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The Nice Guys
While there are many ways to attack the buddy cop genre, at its core are two wildly different personalities forced to work together amidst disaster.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Whenever a terrible movie gets a sequel, we ask ourselves, “WHY!?”, yet in some cases, a funny thing happen…sequels turn out to actually be not
Just The 3 Of Us
Essentially, the marketing strategy of Star Cinema’s latest offering, Just the 3 of Us, boiled down to three names: undisputed rom-com king John Lloyd Cruz,
X-Men: Apocalypse
Looking back, the year 2000 was pretty weird. Y2K paranoia aside, in 2000, Shaq and Kobe were friends, computers shrieked when you were connecting to
The Angry Birds Movie
When the phenomenal game Angry Birds was first launched, children (and adults) of all ages were glued to their smartphones. The 2010 highest-grossing mobile game
Captain America: Civil War
Let me go just say it upfront — Captain America: Civil War is the best Marvel movie to date. It works so well not just as
The Huntsman: Winter’s War
2016, so far, can be marked as the year of sequels and reboots. While some of which are well-crafted, the majority are either disappointing or
Patayin Sa Sindak Si Barbara
Horror is perhaps one of the most diverse genres in film. Since its rich beginnings during the German Expressionism movement, the genre has evolved into
The Jungle Book
To those who still hold any degree of skepticism for Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book—Disney’s live-action adaptation of the Rudyard Kiplingclassic—I say just sing along
10 Cloverfield Lane
Solving jigsaw puzzles begin by picking a piece out of a scattered mess. Each individual piece is conformed to a different shape, each edge retrofitted
The Divergent Series: Allegiant
Sequel after sequel, it is a struggle to pledge my allegiance to this franchise that once had the potential but has now consistently gone downhill.
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
London Has Fallen
London Has Fallen is a classic example of a no-one-asked-for sequel trying to ride on the coattails of its predecessor’s box-office success. The film, a
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
WARNING: Mild spoilers follow, but I won’t give away any major plot points (none that the trailers haven’t already given away that is). As a kid,
Always Be My Maybe
Director Dan Villegas (English Only Please, The Breakup Playlist, and most recently Walang Forever) continues his magical streak of directing hit romantic comedies for the
Zoolander 2
Blue Steel. Ferrari. Le Tigre. Toward the end of 2001’s Zoolander, the megalomaniacal Mugatu accuses the really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking male model of recycling
Kung Fu Panda 3
The lovable panda, Po Ping (voiced by Jack Black) comes back to the big screen as the Dragon Warrior in the third installment of Dreamworks’
The Finest Hours
The Finest Hours depicts events that are dubbed as “the most daring rescue mission in U.S. coast guard history.” I took this with a grain
The Revenant
The four-way battle of man vs. man vs. nature vs. himself has never been construed in the way The Revenant does in this Oscar-nominated epic
Gods of Egypt
Amid the huge #OscarsSoWhite controversy of The 88th Academy Awards, timing could not have been any worse for the release of Gods of Egypt –
