Friday, 31 October 2014
Thursday, 30 October 2014
Movie Review: Beauty In A Bottle
Judith (Angeline Quinto), Vilma (Assunta
De Rossi), and Estelle (Angelica Panganiban) are three women
with different insecurities. Their lives intertwine when Vilma's advertising
agency is looking for an endorser for a new beauty pill product called "Beauty
in a Bottle." Little did they know, their lives will change when
they finally accept what's inside the "Beauty in a Bottle."Monday, 27 October 2014
Movie Review: Sigaw Sa Hatinggabi
Sigaw
sa Hatinggabi is about an investigation into possible murder of a
battered wife whose husband is well known. It is not clear whether the
woman was The film is told in a “Big Brother” style, as a documentary
TV production crew records the efforts of a paranormal investigation
group to find who killed the woman. With the leadership of a
celebrity medium, the group suspects that the murder was committed by
the ghost of a serial killer who died more than two decades ago. As
the investigation continues, the celebrity medium keeps a secret that
may endanger everyone trying to solve the mystery murder.
Sunday, 26 October 2014
Movie Review: T'yanak
T’yanak
is the story of Julie’s adopted baby who transforms
into a monster and terrorizes their quiet town of Putting Bato with a
series of brutal murders, including the wife of townsman (Sid Lucero)
who gets wrongly imprisoned for T’yanak’s crime. Among T’yanak’s
targets are Julie’s brother and his fiancee. Julie, who has suffered miscarriage after miscarriage in
her efforts to have her own child, is unwilling to turn over her
adopted baby to the authorities despite the many murders it has
committed.Saturday, 25 October 2014
Movie Review: Hukluban
Hukluban
examines the plight of the cursed woman, Mira, over the span of three eras over six generations and her search
for true love and a man played by actor Kiko Matos. Hukluban is a
“gothic horror romance. The story was inspired by his 1983 drama
thriller “Gabi kung sumikat ang araw,” which features a cursed woman who
is beautiful woman at night but transforms into a hukluban, an aging
old woman, by sunrise. Immortal, the woman can only hope for true love
to break the curse.
Friday, 24 October 2014
Movie Review: Bacao
Bacao
is about the torment of a young wife, Mayet, struggling to become
pregnant. Mayet, played by Michelle Madrigal, is an enchanting and
desired young woman from a remote village of Isabela who experiences a
sexual awakening upon her marriage to Abel (Arnold Reyes). As their
village is in the midst of a corn bountiful harvest, their sensual
partnership also flourishes, though it is paradoxically fruitless.
Mayet’s anxiety and paranoia grows as pregnancy evades her. To what
extent will Mayet go to fulfill her desire of having a child?
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Movie Review: Dilim
A nursing student encounters strange occurrences around the dorm where
she's staying. She enlists of another student to unravel the mystery of
the dormitory.
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Sunday, 19 October 2014
Saturday, 18 October 2014
Friday, 17 October 2014
Sineng Pambansa Horror plus Film Festival begins Oct. 29 at SM Cinema Branches Nationwide
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| Direk Peque Gallaga, Lore Reyes, Romy Zuzara, Gil Portes and Boy Vinarao @ Presscon of Sineng Pambansa |
The Film Development
Council of the Philippines, in partnership with SM Cinema, will present the
Sineng Pambansa Horror plus Film Festival, which opens on
October 29, 2014 and will run until November 4 in all SM Cinema branches
nationwide
The films participating in the festival include “T’yanak” co-directed by Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes, “Hukluban” by director Gil M. Portes, “Bacao” by director Edgardo Vinarao, and “Sigaw sa Hatinggabi” by director Romy V. Suzara.
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Movie Review: The Trial
A mentally challenged young man is accused of raping his teacher, and is
then put through the machinations of a very public trial.
Movie Review: Gone Girl
Nick Dunne, a small town guy who made good in the big city as a magazine
writer blames the recession and the loss of his job for the decline of
his marriage to his intellectually superior wife with a substantial
trust fund. Questions of his motives and character begin to arise after
his wife's disappearance on the morning of their fifth anniversary. As
the search for his missing wife plays out over the ensuing days, guilty
suspicions are fueled into a national frenzy by the media circus camped
outside his house. Is this idyllic, everyman truly capable of murdering
his wife? Friday, 10 October 2014
Movie Review: Tumbang Preso
Carlo, a smart 14-year old boy and his younger female
cousin were promised restaurant work with a scholarship in the capital, Manila
but ended up as slaves in a sardines factory. Children’s hands are small so
they fit well into the can. Their hands are bloody but consumers don’t notice.
The sauce is red.
He plays a game of manipulation and deceit with the owners of the factory and navigate around the complex power-play there. It culminates in a dangerous plan to escape where life and freedom are in the balance.
He plays a game of manipulation and deceit with the owners of the factory and navigate around the complex power-play there. It culminates in a dangerous plan to escape where life and freedom are in the balance.
Movie Review: Anabelle
John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia - a
beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's
delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their
home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the
couple. Spilled blood and terror are not all they leave behind. The
cultists have conjured an entity so malevolent that nothing they did
will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that is now...
Annabelle.
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