I wrote this for an hour, but this may take about two to three minutes to read. And I propose this question to the wind, to you, and to everyone else reading this: Where did all the critics go? When I ‘started’ out on this industry as a member of
Tag: Adolf Alix Jr.
The Ultimate Guide to the 2016 Sinag Maynila Independent Film Festival
Sinag Maynila is back in its second year, with five hard-edged indies by young Filipino filmmakers Adolf Alix Jr., Ato Bautista, Gino Santos, Jay Altarejos, and Mes de Guzman. The independent film festival is the brainchild of Wilson Tieng (of Solar Entertainment Corporation) and renowned filmmaker Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay), who,
Chain Mail
The premise of Chain Mail, the new film from Viva Films Adolf Alix Jr., is problematic: a cursed chain e-mail is being looped around, terrorizing a group of teenagers who think they know better by ignoring it. From the outset—given how social media is becoming imprinted on our daily lives and
Siquijor: Mystic Island
In horror, sincerity stands as the most welcoming and, simultaneously, repelling factor for a genre filmmaker. Terror is forthright; this fundamental directness of the genre both introduces to and restricts itself from countless possibilities. Explaining then how few sincerely understand the business of fear; how few of them succeed. Then what,
Teaser-Trailer for Ai-Ai de las Alas’ Cop-Drama “Ronda”
Stripping off of her loud and raunchy caricatures, Ai-Ai de las Alas is cop-woman in-distress in Nick Olanka’s second Cinemalaya effort, Ronda in which she plays a patrolling policewoman forced to arrest her own son. We have the thirty-second teaser (see above video) and a couple of stills from the film. There
