Every war has never found its absolution; its damages lifelong. We hear stories from the past generations of their harrowing experiences, and we can only vicariously grasp them. Ode to My Father also seeks to make its audiences understand what it was like in the perspective of an everyday man,
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Jurassic World
Nothing is ever enough. This is the recurrent theme that stealthily preys and camouflages within the greenery of Isla Nublar’s revamped premises in Costa Rica, successfully housing its engineered Triassic-Cretaceous inhabitants into a high-tech amusement park called “Jurassic World,” a twenty-two-year far cry from the tragedy that happened in
You’re Still the One
True love doesn’t expire The course of true love never did run smooth. – William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Romantic dramas and comedies drive in the audience because they are the most relatable to the escapists, the dreamers and the realists. After all, love is the universal language. In
Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story
You’ve seen one. You’ve seen them all. Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story is an off-universe tale from the Youtube series Marble Hornets, which is then based on the Internet-borne concept Slenderman. This horror entity is a tall faceless Caucasian donning a black suit, only visible via cameras or digital
Tomorrowland
Dreams exist outside our reality You may say I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only one. – John Lennon, Imagine EXPECTATIONS | A dream takes shape Imagine a place where nothing’s impossible. Disney promises us of a breathtaking action-adventure with Tomorrowland. Even before the film came to existence, what
Binhi
Embryonic dormancy Seeds take time to burst out of their coats, push off the overlying soil on top, and be christened as the plant they ought out to be. Binhi (The Seed) takes your patience to establish its suspense through slightly jittery long-take tracking shots, which unfortunately frequently end with
Mad Max: Fury Road
Madder than mad Leave it to George Miller to amp up the action and insanity (no pun intended) for the fourth installment of his high octane franchise. Mad Max: Fury Road does not disappoint. Coming in second to Pitch Perfect 2, this action film raked in $109 million on its
Para Sa Hopeless Romantic
Hope falters Why do we write? We write to express ideas. We write to amplify the voice of the unheard. We write to mend our broken selves. Heavily based on her ill-fated love with Nikko (James Reid) during their high school years, the main protagonist, Becca (Nadine Lustre), pens a
It Follows
David Robert Mitchell‘s It Follows is a nightmarish vision executed in glorious mumblecore perfection. Dare we say it, this little, ambiguous horror flick could very well end up as a cult classic because it did so many things right and exceeded viewers’ expectations. Its initial release at the 2014 Film Festival
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Plucking the strings of Avengers, Ultron and the MCU Avengers: Age of Ultron by the numbers: 10 main characters. 142 minutes. 11th film over-all. 3rd superhero team-up film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 1st of 3 planned sequels to 2012’s The Avengers. It makes you younger soft tab cialis will
Get Hard
There has never been a more intentionally offensive and crude buddy comedy in recent memory than Etan Cohen’s Get Hard. Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart are two of the most bankable working Hollywood comedians as of late. Though the former has been in countless movies for much longer than the
Unfriended
Skype-ing with friends will never be the same again after you see Levan Gabriadze’s techno-horror film ‘Unfriended’.
Furious 7
More furious than fast, ‘Furious 7’ presents itself as more than just high-speed chases and heists, yet still mechanical, as the franchise has always been.
FESTIVAL REPORT: Sinag Maynila 2015
Currently running across seven SM cinemas around Metro Manila, Sinag Maynila stays true to its promise of offering “Pelikulang Pinoy, Pusong Pinoy” with five creative and socially relevant films: Paul Sta. Ana‘s Balut Country, about the story of a man undecided what to do with the duck farm business left
Cinderella
Cinderella updates the Walt Disney animated classic this 2015, six and a half decades since the classic animation was released, with an expected elegant production and well-integrated extra dimensions to its characters, which have been previously derided for promoting stereotype passive lasses or damsels-in-distress. The story is inherently the same,
Chappie
Chappie, although visually alluring is a reluctant and incoherent film that suffers from deliberately not knowing what it is trying to achieve as a story.
Predestination
The facade of every time travel movie is that they force our minds into the pseudo-problem of the free will. It is always man’s biggest query to solve the very reason of our existence, whether we have full autonomy of our actions or some things are just inevitable since they are
Big Eyes
Bilateral macro-ophthalmia, a clinical condition for big eyes or specifically, larger eyeballs, is a rarity. It is often part of a systemic condition. A more common finding would be exophthalmos, defined by Dorland’s Medical Dictionary as the abnormal protrusion of the eyeball. It is the appearance of enlargement of the
The Theory of Everything
The Theory of Everything is exclusively showing at Ayala Mall Cinemas starting Feb. 25.
Comet
Only a handful get to witness the Haley’s comet twice in their lifetime. Each close encounter between the Earth and this extraterrestrial tourist is considered glorious by what it is, by what it could mean, and for that minute-long moment the tiny humans see it. As for Comet, the two
Han Gong-Ju
The proverbial desire to escape from the past has proven to be no less than harrowing, if not futile, for Han Gong-ju’s titular character (Chun Woo-hee), who is forced to leave her hometown following a gang-rape scandal. Despite the defeatist premise, Lee Su-jin’s visually dissonant directorial debut maintains a constant
The Last Five Years
In the case of The Last Five Years, innovation and passion are the keys for its own salvation. Broadway buffs and fans will unanimously praise the film to the high heavens for its charming characters and well-written lyricisms but filmgoers who have never seen the original piece might constantly struggle
Unbroken
Adapted from a biopic by Laura Hillenbrand on Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini, Unbroken comes off as unique but uneven. It is unique that compared to recent biopics like The Imitation Game or American Sniper, Unbroken shows not one but three seemingly disconnected stories in the protagonist’s
Paddington
If you watched Paddington as an animation near the end of the 90’s, you would probably remember the charming little bear full of heart in a Britain fileld with yellows, blues and browns. The 2014 live action adaptation with a computer-generated Paddington is memorable in a similar delectable way. Paddington,
Liwanag sa Dilim
Richard Somes’s Liwanag sa Dilim enacts a battle between good and evil, the timeless adventure of friends joined in defeating a villainous being, tykes assembled in lieu of the common task of slaying the monster under the bed. And although the film is elusive to the delineation as a children’s
