Upon exiting the theater after Ready Player One, my immediate takeaway was that “they don’t make films like this anymore.” Based on the 2011 novel by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One takes place in the near-future of 2045, a dystopian landscape where the earth has become ridden by global warming,
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“DARKEST HOUR” inspires but exists only in the moment
Full disclosure, I had a ton of apprehensions before going into Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour. For one, this Oscars season, it seemed to be the film that most obviously fit the tired “Oscar bait” formula (come on, it’s a prestige drama-biopic with a respected character actor fully inhabiting one of
Oscar Contender “Darkest Hour” Opens Exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas on Feb 14
Nominated for six major Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor, Focus Features’ historical drama Darkest Hour will be shown exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas (Trinoma, Greenbelt 1) starting February 14. Directed by Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), Darkest Hour is the dramatic and inspiring story of four weeks in 1940 during which
Here’s the first barkada shot of ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’
The rebels assemble in our first look at the cast of Star Wars: Rogue One. To be directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) and with one of Hollywood’s newest It girls, Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), in the lead role; Rogue One is said to be to the story of how the resistance
Lost River
The most evocative image in Ryan Gosling‘s Lost River is midway its hyper-saturated nightmare, when Billy (Christina Hendricks), to the sick delight of a sizable audience, slices off the skin of her face. She traces the outlines of skin the incision has left, touches the flesh irrevocably exposed, all to an almost grinning composure—like
