Thursday, 31 December 2015
Wednesday, 30 December 2015
Monday, 28 December 2015
Sunday, 27 December 2015
Movie Review: Nilalang
Nilalang tackles the underbelly of corrupt Philippine cops with the
Japanese ‘Yakuza’ and its links to a centuries’ old curse that may be
responsible for the spate of serial killings happening in Manila.
Movie Review: My Bebe Love #KiligPaMore
Dondi (Alden Richards) is a nerd and an obedient nephew to his aunt
Cora (Ai-Ai de las Alas) who makes decisions for him. Meanwhile, Anna
(Maine Mendoza) is a stubborn and rebellious girl who seeks the
attention of her father Vito (Vic Sotto). Dondi and Anna cross path and
their different personalities collide. They eventually fall in love with
each other and solve their own problems. Vito and Cora are bitter
business competitors and because of their rivalry, they disapproved the
romantic relationship between Dondi and Anna.
Movie Review: Beauty and the Bestie
Estranged best friends Ericka and Emman, played by Vice Ganda and Coco
Martin, respectively, will be "reunited" for the latter’s special
mission as a spy agent.
Emman must convince Ericka to pretend as the missing beauty pageant
contestant Natalia Thalia who got abducted during her stay in the
country. This is to keep the country safe from the wrath of Natalia
Thalia’s father, who is capable of annihilating the entire Philippines.Saturday, 26 December 2015
Movie Review: Haunted Mansion
Ella (Janella Salvador) is a gifted girl, who sees dead people around her. The last time she
used her gift to communicate with spirits, though, resulted in her
father’s death. Her schoolmates who often bullies Ella, initiated a
prank and insidiously awakened the evil spirits, Amara (Iza Calzado) and
Veronica (LJ Reyes) from the past. In the midst of the students’
adventure, dormant ghost in the retreat house are disturbed and so they
wreak havoc on Ella and her friends. Ella and her friends accidentally discovers the mystery surrounding
the twin deaths, and so Amara’s vengeful spirit returns to try to stop
them from spilling the truth.
Movie Review: All You Need is Pag-ibig
To remind everyone how inspiring it is to love and to feel loved, the
powerhouse ensemble – Kris Aquino, Derek Ramsay, Kim Chiu, Xian Lim,
Jodi Sta. Maria, Ian Veneracion, Nova Villa, Ronaldo Valdez, Pokwang,
James “Bimby” Yap, and Julia and Talia Concio – join forces for this
2015 Metro Manila Film Fest entry.
A heartwarming romantic and family movie, "All You Need Is Pag-ibig”
explores and celebrates the complexity of human relationships in all
their forms.
The movie features varied forms of love: family love, sibling love,
puppy love, unrequited love, ruined love, prospering love, in denial
love, jaded love, and true love, among others.
After all, what the world needs now is love.
Friday, 25 December 2015
Movie Review: Buy Now, Die Later
Buy Now, Die Later revolves around the five senses. Each one of the
characters is made to pay the price for striking a deal with mysterious
curio shop owner Santi (TJ Trindad).
Movie Review: #WalangForever
Mia,
a celebrated writer of romantic-comedy films, is at a turning point in
her life which makes it difficult for her to believe that love could
last. Everything comes to a head when Ethan returns -- only for her to
find out that he has become a cynic of lasting love because she broke
his heart.
Movie Review: Honor Thy Father
After years of financial struggle, Kaye
(Meryll Soriano) and Edgar (John Lloyd
Cruz) are finally on a roll. Kaye has made
millions promoting her father's investment
scheme to her friends and fellow
Pentecostal parishioners at the Church of
Yeshua. But their world unravels instantaneously
one day when Edgar swings by his
father-in-law's house to find the place ransacked
and the old man gone. It doesn't take
long for Kaye's friends to turn on the couple,
who go to the fiery bishop for help. But he's
not exactly generous, preoccupied as he is
with raising money for a new temple (and
with the promise of extravagant kickbacks).
The parishioners continue to demand their
money back, and Kaye and Edgar start
receiving death threats. When the tension
erupts in violence, Edgar decides to seek the
aid of his criminally inclined family.
Thursday, 24 December 2015
Wednesday, 23 December 2015
Monday, 21 December 2015
Movie Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Thirty years after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, the galaxy faces a
new threat from the evil Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and the First Order.
When a defector named Finn crash-lands on a desert planet, he meets Rey
(Daisy Ridley), a tough scavenger whose droid contains a top-secret map.
Together, the young duo joins forces with Han Solo (Harrison Ford) to
make sure the Resistance receives the intelligence concerning the
whereabouts of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the last of the Jedi
Knights.
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Movie Review: Tandem
In
the traffic-laden streets of Metro Manila, two brothers use the chaos
of the city roads as a smokescreen for their shady occupation -- tandem
robbers on motorbike. But when a robbery goes sour, the brothers are
forced to graduate from low level thieves to high profile hit men in an
act that tests both their resolve and their relationship.
Movie Review: Turo Turo
Turo Turo is an inspiring and beautiful drama film which tackles issues about illiteracy.
Movie Review: Mandirigma
In
the battlefield, everyone is a warrior. Warriors fight with everything
they got knowing that in the fiercest of encounters, there is only one
rule: they fight to live.
Movie Review: Toto
Antonio "Toto" Estares comes from Tacloban, Philippines, a place ravaged by Typhoon Yolanda. His mother has cancer. He works at a hotel in Manila, and tries every which way to get to the U.S. so he can support his family – which he’s been doing since his father died and left them penniless. His father had made it to Las Vegas to become a stage act and promised to petition his family, but he ended up a dishwasher who drank and gambled away everything. The only thing Toto inherited from his father is the obsession of the dream, which he has forged into his own, and is intent on fulfilling it, because it was also once his mother’s hope.
Movie Review: Ari: My Life With A King
Ari My Life with a King is the coming-of-age story of a Filipino boy rediscovering his native roots. Twenty-five years after Mount Pinatoba erupted, the Kimpanpangans still struggle to keep their language and culture alive. Spearheading the movement is a poet circle led by an elected chief — known locally as the King of Poets.
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Movie Review: Tomodachi
A film that centers on a story of a real romance that generated between a Japanese and Filipina during the period of World War III .
Monday, 7 December 2015
Movie Review: Child Haus
Sunday, 6 December 2015
Friday, 4 December 2015
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