ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
Celebrate exciting kinds of love this October in Star Cinema’s newest offering – The Third Party, starring Sam Milby, Zanjoe Marudo and Angel Locsin. Directed by Maverick filmmaker Jason Paul Laxamana whose credits include the cutting-edge drama Babagwa, the all-out comedy romance Love is Blind, and the black comedy Mercury is Mine; and with a …
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Marvel at the lush woods but Bagane Fiola seeks to bring viewers deeper into the struggles of an indigenous family coping with changes in their environment in his 2016 QCinema International Film Festival (QCinema) entry, “Baboy Halas, Wailings in the Forest”. The film offers an experience with a family, one of the last forest people, who …
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“Every blood line must end,” or so proclaims the newly released trailer of Columbia Pictures’ “Underworld: Blood Wars,” the latest installment in the blockbuster Underworld franchise. Check out the trailer and watch the action-thriller when it opens nationwide on November 30, 2016. Directed by Anna Foerster, “Underworld: Blood Wars” stars Kate Beckinsale, Theo James (the “Divergent” …
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As “Inferno” approaches its October 12 opening across the Philippines, Columbia Pictures has revealed individual character posters for its principal cast led by Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. Once again, the international setting of the tale Dan Brown has spun offered the filmmakers a chance to surround Hanks with a cast of global actors: the …
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The cleverly constructed screenplay of Warner Bros. Pictures’ new thriller The Accountant drew the film’s impressive acting ensemble, led by Ben Affleck (Batman v Superman), Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect), J.K. Simmons (Whiplash), Jon Bernthal (TV’s The Punisher), Jeffrey Tambor (TV’s Transparent) and John Lithgow (Interstellar). “It kept me guessing until the very last page,” Affleck …
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In his second QCinema International Film Festival Circle Competition piece, filmmaker Prime Cruz gives a human face to the winged monster called the “manananggal”. “Ang Manananggal Sa Unit 23B” is one of the films funded by the Quezon City Film Development Commission (QCFDC), the organizers of QCinema. In this film, Cruz will show a monster capable of …
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THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (2016) Review Directed by Tate Taylor The feel of its mystery is very Gone Girl, and yes, from the structure of the story, you really can’t blame anyone for the comparison between Gone Girl and The Girl from The Train. Director Tate Taylor, who also directed the Oscar nominated film The Help, presents a complicated story …
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HY Yambao’s “Best. Partee. Ever.” an official entry to QCinema 2016’s Circle Competition released its official poster and teaser trailer. The film stars JC De Vera, Jordan Herrera, Kristofer King, Acey Aguilar, Aaron Rivera, Shandii Bacolod, Angela Cortez, Odette Khan and Mercedes Cabral. Watch the 15-minute teaser trailer here: Synopsis: Mikey – a young, discreet gay man from …
Ron Howard has been the keeper of the cinematic legacy of Dan Brown’s best selling books for many years now – he made the hugely successful The Da Vinci Code back in 2006 followed, three years later, by Angels & Demons. Each one, says Howard, has presented its own unique opportunities and the latest in …
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Paramount Pictures and IMAX Corporation has announced that “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back,” the latest film in the Jack Reacher franchise starring Tom Cruise, will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX® format and will be released into IMAX® theatres in the Philippines on October 19th. Watch the IMAX trailer of “Jack Reacher: Never Go …
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