The official trailer for Pedring Lopez‘s upcoming horror film Binhi (English title: The Seed) is now online. Lopez, who wrote and directed the film, is the attached director for the SAF film starring Jeorge E.R. Estregan that naturally caused a stir among pundits on social media. The setup is innocuously simple: an expecting young family moves into
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WATCH: Official trailer for Brillante Mendoza’s ‘Taklub’
Brillante Ma Mendoza‘s Taklub is an official selection to this year’s Un Certain Regard Section at Cannes. It is no foreign ground for either Mendoza or Nora Aunor: Mendoza’s previous film with Aunor Thy Womb (Filipino title: Sinapupunan, ‘12) has also played in the same festival and section. The 68th Cannes Film Festival will run May
The World Gets Pitch-Slapped in ‘Pitch Perfect 2’
The Barden Bellas are back to pitch slap the world in Universal Pictures’ Pitch Perfect 2, the follow-up to 2012’s runaway global hit about a group of lovable misfits with only one thing in common: the irresistible way they sound when they’re seamlessly mixed together, mashed-up and arranged like never
QCinema 2015 announces 8 full-length films in competition
On its third year, QCinema International Film Festival, the official film festival of Quezon City, the City of Stars, unveils its line-up of eight locally-produced full-length features for the Circle Competition 2015. Ang Huling Habagat by Mario Cornejo Patintero: Ang Alamat ni Meng Patalo by Mihk Vergara Iisa by Chuck
WATCH: Trailer for King Palisoc’s ‘Tandem’ Lands Online
The trailer for King Palisoc‘s first feature Tandem (a.k.a. The Wolf Tatoo) is now live. The action/thriller casts JM De Guzman and Nico Antonio as brothers who, astride a motorbike, roam the Metro to rob people in the streets. One robbery goes awry, spiraling into a web of crimes that has them struggling to entangle. Here’s the official
New ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ Trailer Has Arrived!
Permit my fanboy spontaneity interrupt your reading; something major has surfaced on the internet that has rendered fans to the point of “literally can’t even.” The new trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is here, officially, against the original plan of publishing it Monday, April 20th. The trailer has been
Jared Leto’s Joker in an iconic look for ‘Suicide Squad’
A day after David Ayer posted the first cast photo of DC’s anti-hero supervillain team flick Suicide Squad, the writer-director tweets out Jared Leto in Joker’s iconic green hair, holding a camera akin to the phenomenal cover of Batman: The Killing Joke, a one-shot superhero graphic novel by acclaimed writer
‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ goes global
Shooting in different continents, even extending Johannesburg, The Avengers have to deal with the issue of being a global entity in Avengers: Age of Ultron. From the recently released featurette, from Jo Blo Movie Trailers, on the shooting locations of the film, director Joss Whedon and the various cast members
‘Imbisibol’ sweeps Sinag Maynila 2015 awards
Lawrence Fajardo‘s Imbisibol is the big winner of Sinag Maynila as it takes home all seven jury awards from the Gabi ng Parangal held at SM Aura Sky Park on the eve of March 21,2015. Imbisibol, dubbed as best film of the inaugural form of the film festival, bags best
March 2015 Screenings and Workshops at UPFI Film Institute
Environmental films, Cinema One Originals 2014, women in Philippine Cinema, digitally restored classics, Kidlat Tahimik’s new offering, workshops on photography, scriptwriting, and film criticism are abound this March 2015 at the Film Center of the UP Film Institute in UP Diliman. For admission information, call 9262722; 9263640. Luntiang Tabing Environmental
Singkuwento 2015 Winners
Starting as a showcase of Filipino films, Singkuwento International Film Festival evolved in its 2nd edition with the addition of a short film competition. Robert Reyes Ang, director of TNT (Tago Nang Tago), chaired the three-piece jury, composed of himself, Sigrid Andrea P. Bernardo (filmmaker of Ang Huling Cha-Cha ni
Spring Film Festival 2015 runs from February 13 to 22
Celebrate the year of the Ram with the 9th Spring Film Festival at the Shangri-la Plaza in Origas from the 13th to the 22nd of February 2015. You won’t be alienated as the six different acclaimed Chinese films come in English subtitles. Admission is free for all of these loved
Yam Laranas announces new thriller Abomination
Yam Laranas have had quite a space of time to bring in his next picture following the widely successful The Road (’12)—a generation-leaping horror-thriller following a young man’s unbecoming. If it is all-texture, as critics note, I rest with the inarguable fact that it is a great texture, which makes the utopia in justice finding itself
American Sniper, Blackhat, M open this week in Philippine theaters
This week finds the release of American Sniper and Blackhat—two films I have already watched during the Awards, a.k.a. screener season. The former is a Clint Eastwood film perfectly fitting the Oscar mold; the latter being Michael Mann‘s under-sung work, which some imagine if titled “American Hacker” would have had ‘better chances’ in the awards
The Year in Horror: 15+ Best Films of 2014
Time has struck into the annual season of lists, where selectionis spontaneously divorced from apt and valid criterion; where unjust remarks are made; and people deeming one list fallacious, some reducing others as cheaply formatted posts of embedded film trailers. Amid (and despite) all this commotion, it has become my
Jason Paul Laxamana on his film Magkakabaung, Hanoi, and local cinema
Babagwa (eng title. The Spider’s Lair) is a modest triumph for Jason Paul Laxamana, a marked leap from his debut feature Astro Mayabang. But both films will seem backdrops to his success, documents of the becoming of the maker of Magkakabaung (eng title. The Coffin Maker), the film that finally makes
This year’s Sineng Pambansa has been reissued ‘Frightfest,’ playing right now in select Ayala Cinemas
This year’s government-backed film festival has not been particularly good. In my report of the fest, I expressed my contempt for three-quarters of the whole lot, which premiered only four films including Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes’s remake of their own 1988 cult-favourite T’yanak. It is the only film that
6 films released this year that are inspired by John Carpenter
I still hold that his latest film The Ward (2010) is not a John Carpenter film; he is not involved in both the script-work and music, which in itself is pretty self-explanatory. I think it as an unthought-of plunge to quickie horror by a legendary director who has made terrific
Watch: Trailer for Terrence Malick’s new film Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale
Terrence Malick’s new film Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman, has a first-trailer released, and, as most Malick trailers do, they do not give away too much of the central plot but manages to shake the earth beneath you. An official synopsis has not been
Five on five—MMFF 2014 New Wave entries
Aside from the primary—essentially mainstream—line-up of films, the annual Metro Manila Film Festival has also committed to an “indie” section called New Wave, which will run starting tomorrow, December 17th thru 24th. We have asked the five directors of this year’s competing films to send us their own best
Watch: Cinemalaya 2014 award-winning short film Lola debuts online
Kevin Ang’s entry about a disillusioned grandmother (portrayed by Erlinda Villalobos) won all Best Director, Best Screenplay and Audience Choice awards at the recent Cinemalaya Film Festival. Titled Lola, the film is centred on Villalobos’s character who keeps and feeds her undead family at home, ignorant of the outbreak that had
WATCH: “Too scary” — MTRCB bans trailer for Tragic Theater
The above trailer for the new film by Tikoy Aguiluz (director of Segurista) is banned, for some reason, and was given an “X rating” by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB). There are dark forces behind this ban, I feel it. The production took to YouTube, which is
Watch: The trailer for David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows is genuinely unsettling
David Robert Mitchell launched It Follows at Cannes to thunderous raves, with critics already honouring it one of the best horror films of recent. We have the trailer for the film, which, if it serves any indication, makes a great promise and, taking into account the critical acclaim, fulfils with a
We are spilling details on the upcoming J.J. Abrams sci-fi feature—it’s top-secret!
The modest success of lo-fi found-footage Cloverfield has launched Matt Reeves to the world as an able storyteller, succeeding with much bigger projects such as Let Me In and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. J.J. Abrams who eyed the up-and-coming talent, hopes the same to happen to music
Watch: This Wes Anderson cut of the Star Wars VII teaser-trailer is c’est drôle
Remember the first three Star Wars parody trailers we shared? Well apparently the internet simply could not move past them because someone has made a Wes Anderson version of the now-viral teaser-trailer, and it is c’est drôle. You may watch the Wes-cut trailer above. Star Wars Episode VII is directed by J.J. Abrams (Super 8)
