Movie News, Reviews
After 11 nominations and 2 awards (3rd best picture and best supporting actress for Shaina Magdayao) at last December’s Metro Manila Film Festival, Tagpuan was declared the Best Feature Film … Continue Reading Alfred Vargas elated over Tagpuan’s Best Feature Film win at the 6th Chauri Chaura Int’l Film Festival
Alyx Arumpac’s Aswang, a film that portrays the grim aftermath of the Duterte administration’s war on drugs, is eligible for consideration in the documentary feature category of the 93rd Academy Awards. The film … Continue Reading Documentary on Drug War ‘Aswang’ an Official Entry to Oscars 2021
Filipinos who missed the 2020 Metro Manila Film Festival will get another chance to catch two of the season’s featured movies—”Suarez: The Healing Priest” and “Pakboys Takusa”—as SKY Movies Pay-Per-View … Continue Reading ‘Suarez: The Healing Priest,’ Pakboys: Takusa,’ ‘Nightshift’ to premiere on SKY Movies Pay-Per-View
FAN GIRL (2020) ReviewWritten and directed by Antoinette Jadaone WHAT. A. RIDE. If someone tells me that Antoinette Jadaone is doing a movie about a fan girl starring Paulo Avelino … Continue Reading #MMFF2020: ‘Fan Girl’ Review
Adrian Lindayag and Keann Johnson, two of the most talented rising stars in the country today, play the leads in the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) 2020 romantic comedy “The … Continue Reading Fate brings Adrian Lindayag & Keann Johnson together in “The Boy Foretold By The Stars”
Here are the winners of the Metro Manila Film Festival 2020 Gabi ng Parangal: 3rd Best Float: Fan Girl2nd Best Float: Isa Pang BahaghariBest Float: Magikland Best Child Performer: Seiyo … Continue Reading WINNERS: Metro Manila Film Festival 2020
This Christmas, there’s no other place to be than home, literally and figuratively. Instead of feeling deflated that you are missing out on the usual stuff you love doing during … Continue Reading Christmas Just Got Better! Stream MMFF 2020 Entries on UPSTREAM Starting TODAY!
THE BOY FORETOLD BY THE STARS (2020) ReviewDirected by Dolly Dulu I can’t remember the last time I felt really good after watching a movie. The pandemic forced us to … Continue Reading #MMFF2020: ‘The Boy Foretold by the Stars’ Review
It’s not every day you get to work with the Superstar Nora Aunor and director Joel Lamangan in a film that also tackles socially relevant issues like the LGBTQIA+. And … Continue Reading Maris Racal, Sanya Lopez, Zanjoe Marudo laud their MMFF movie ‘Isa Pang Bahaghari’
When asked if the story of Tagpuan is still relevant with the ongoing pandemic, director McArthur Alejandre shares a rather deep personal meaning of love and life. “Ang pandemic ginawa … Continue Reading ‘Tagpuan’: From Manila to Hong Kong to New York, with Love
Movie-viewing this Christmas day is going to be different for us Filipinos. Traditionally, we go out and line-up to cinemas to watch entries to the Metro Manila Film Festival but … Continue Reading #PlayItRight this Christmas while watching MMFF films via Upstream
The Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) festival organizers held a “MMFF Zoom Roadshow” with Pinoy celebrities to invite Filipinos from all over the world to watch this year’s line-up of … Continue Reading MMFF 2020 stars invite OFWs to watch this year’s films online
Only 2 weeks left to send in your film entries to A Projected Vision, a premier film festival for students all around the Philippines with the hopes of making a … Continue Reading Call for Entries: A Projected Vision – a premier film festival for students
MANILA, PHILIPPINES, DECEMBER 7, 2020 — Nine out of the 13 films from the Premium Selection Section of the 4th Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino (PPP) were considered for the selection … Continue Reading Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino Announces Nominees, #PPP4SamaAll Awards Night on Dec. 12
Included in the list of this year’s digital Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF 2020) entries is Suarez: The Healing Priest, biopic of the recently-departed Fr. Fernando Suarez. Before his untimely demise last February, the 53-year … Continue Reading John Arcilla on Fr. Suarez’s Healing Power: “Totoong may miracle”
For its second and final section in its Festival Program, QCinema International Film Festival presents a fresh line-up of noteworthy films. It includes the world premiere of Midnight in a … Continue Reading #QCinema2020: Films to Stream from December 2 – 6