Ang dami kong naririnig na hindi nila nagustuhan ang Outside dahil kulang daw sa zombies at puro drama lang. Unfair naman ‘yun. May ambisyon si Carlo Ledesma na gamitin ang zombies sa pag-highlight ng generational trauma, machismo, at toxic loyalty sa kultura ng mga Pilipinong pamilya. Kung titignan natin ang
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Smaller and Smaller Circles
Serial, Making a Murderer, The Keepers, deep dives that have sprung forth from the recent death of Charles Manson; a jarring insight commonly seen in this renaissance of the true crime genre is that it adds another layer to how we look at crime and the so-called monsters that commit
Nervous Translation
People often say “see the world through the eyes of a child,” acting as if these words are the remedy to cynicism. Somehow this phrase is charged with what we imagine childhood to be: innocence, authenticity, joy and tears (somehow our emotions back then feel purer), wonder, etc. And yet
‘Apocalypse Child’ Opens in Cinemas Nationwide
Catch the award-winning film, Apocalypse Child, in cinemas nationwide on October 2016. Winner of Best Picture in 2015’s QCinema Film Festival, Apocalypse Child is directed by Mario Cornejo and co-written by Monster Jimenez. Shot entirely in Baler, this film revolves around Ford (Sid Lucero), a surfing instructor whose birth is
‘Smaller and Smaller Circles’ co-writer Ria Limjap on the book, the film, and everything in between
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‘Smaller and Smaller Circles’ is being adapted into a film; Raya Martin directs
The producers of Heneral Luna and acclaimed director Raya Martin (Buenas noches, España!) have teamed to film the upcoming adaptation of F.H. Batacan’s seminal mystery crime-thriller, Smaller and Smaller Circles. If that doesn’t give you the cinephilic tinglies, you might want to consider getting yourself checked. But you already know
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 on runtime, daresay superfluous for a Lav Diaz film, is unfortunate because it misrepresents what Hele actually is – an epic of magic realism that overlays
Toto
Persistence is the main takeaway in John Paul Su’s Toto, which means you’re expected to forgive its inevitable Wizard Of Oz reference. Attuned to its hero’s spirits, the film is relentless at satirizing the notion of the American Dream, by way and form of its jocularly naive Filipino with an
Watch Sid Lucero do different levels of Tom Cruise in trailer for ‘Toto’
Different levels of Tom Cruise? Ha! Get it? Save for its protagonist’s knack for Cruise’s shades in movies, the new film Toto has nothing to do with the Dorian Gray of Hollywood Action. Instead, it pivots around a young man (played by Sid Lucero) who will do every thing that will get him a
Apocalypse Child
From its sun-kissed cinematography of Baler to its opening monologue on myths, Apocalypse Child takes no shame in driving to the audience its theme of escape, and it is in dwelling in this longing to get away — to stick by the uncertain rather than to confront realties — that character
Sid Lucero on growth, falling in love, and being Francis Ford Coppola’s son
In 1979, Apocalypse Now, hailed as one of the greatest movies of all time, premiered in Hollywood amid much controversy. Shot on location in Baler, Aurora, then a small fishing village in the Philippines, the film went way over budget and took much too long to shoot. When the filming
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,
