ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
Taking us down memory lane on the magnificence of old-world cinemas, Ayala Malls Cinemas’ A-List Series, this year’s finest curation of films best viewed on the big screen, presents “Empire of Light” starring award-winning actors Olivia Colman and Colin Firth. Directed by highly acclaimed filmmaker Sam Mendes, “Empire of Light” is considered a love letter …
TBA Studios has acquired exclusive Philippine theatrical distribution rights to the lighthearted family drama “Ajoomma”, which will be released on March 15. Directed by Singaporean filmmaker, He Shuming, his feature debut film tells the story of a middle-aged, Korean-drama-obsessed widow from Singapore who travels out of the country for the first time to Seoul, and …
Academy Award-winner Brad Pitt stars as Jack Conrad, a silver screen icon navigating the tumultuous transformation of cinema in Paramount Pictures’ critically acclaimed epic, Babylon. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, the film traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood. Watch the film’s …
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BABYLON (2022) ReviewDirected by Damien Chazelle It’s Hollywood. It’s cinema. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is like your love-hate relationship with your favorite show – there’s a lot to love there but there are also a lot to hate that you end up confused and just compromising the hate with the things that you love. Get it? …
Philippines, 25 January 2023 – Disney+ rang in the New Year with fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, announcing the Feb. 1 streaming debut of Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” In anticipation of the film’s upcoming streaming debut, Proximity Media, in collaboration with Marvel Studios and Marvel Entertainment, released “Wakanda Forever: The Official Black Panther Podcast.” Audiences are …
The highly anticipated and much talked-about drama, “The Whale” starring Brendan Fraser, is coming to the Philippines this February 22. Academy Award-winning director, Darren Aronofsky (“Black Swan”, “Mother!”), helms what critics have touted as Fraser’s “triumphant comeback”. The actor, who’s known for his leading man roles in films like “Bedazzled”, “George of the Jungle”, and …
Two-time Oscar-nominee Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy, an unknown actress who is trying to get her big break into show business, in Paramount Pictures’ critically acclaimed epic, Babylon. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, the film traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood. …
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The grandeur of cinema sparks even brighter this year with Ayala Malls Cinemas’ ‘A-List Series,’ a curated gallery of the finest movies exclusively offered to its movie patrons. It starts this January 18 featuring “The Fabelmans,” the first offering in the series and this year’s winner at the Golden Globe Awards bagging the Best Motion Picture …
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Those who missed the theatrical release of “Everything Everywhere All At Once”, “Triangle of Sadness”, and “Plan 75” are in luck as TBA Studios brings back these award-winning movies for a special micro-cinema run at Cinema ’76 Film Society and Cinematheque Centres across the country. The multiverse adventure of an aging Asian laundromat owner captured …
NOCEBO (2022) ReviewDirected by Lorcan Finnegan There’s something wrong with Christine. Lorcan Finnegan’s latest horror thriller isn’t the most horrifying movie out there. But it takes its time to build something that’s creepy enough for the viewers to be stressed out. The way the film introduced Philippine witchcraft or black magic is kind of impressive …
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