ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
Star Cinema, the film production arm of ABS-CBN Corporation, is bringing the Berlinale Film Festival Silver Bear-Winning Film “Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis” closer to the Filipino people through a nationwide screening starting Black Saturday, March 26, 2016. An eight-hour long epic, Lav Diaz’s internationally-acclaimed historical film features two big names from ABS-CBN’s stable of stars …
Written by Ymmanwel Rico Provinio What tyrannical disservice could a democratic country, like the US of A, impose to its people? Why would a democratic country suddenly brandish communism in its own land? World War is waving in the horizon, as the relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. deteriorated and the fear of …
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Opening on March 2 exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas is “Queen of the Desert” starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco and Robert Pattinson, a true story of the life of British explorer and adventurer, Gertrude Bell (Kidman). “Queen of the Desert” chronicles Bell’s journeys of love and loss in the Middle East during the early 20th …
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SPOTLIGHT (2015) Review Directed by Tom McCarthy Powerful, riveting, well-written, well-acted and well-directed. Spotlight is the kind of film that never gets boring as it absorbs you in its controversial story. Though it never gets to use suspenseful scoring or treats its scenes to be thrilling, because it didn’t need to. Its story is enough …
Talented actor Ben Foster (“X-Men: The Last Stand,” “Lone Survivor”) stars in Disney’s heroic action-thriller “The Finest Hours” as a veteran Coast Guard seaman who, despite his reservations about his superior’s leadership abilities, volunteers to join him on a perilous rescue mission. Watch the clip “You Got About Five Seconds” featuring Ben Foster and Chris …
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By Ymmanwel Rico Provinio “Crime does not pay” an adage that holds the truth, even in this 21st century. Spotlighting a decade-long and numerous sexual abuses inflicted upon the youth, altar boys or helpers, became a recurring sickening diseases within the darkened walls of the Catholic Church. Not only the innocent minors suffered, but also …
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Academy Award nominated film, Spotlight follows The Boston Globe’s “Spotlight” team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative unit in the United States and its investigation into the widespread child sex abuse cases in the Boston area. It is based on a series of stories by the real Spotlight Team that earned The Globe the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public …
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A heroic action-thriller, Disney’s “The Finest Hours” is based on the extraordinary true story of the greatest small boat rescue in Coast Guard history in the U.S. Presented in Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D, the film transports audiences to the heart of the action, creating a fully-immersive cinematic experience on an epic scale. Directed by …
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Eddie never gives up and likes to prove his detractors wrong. Sounds universally familiar? Just like the unbreakable focus and determination of the recently crowned Ms. Universe 2015, Philippines’ Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach comes an inspiring story based on true events in “Eddie The Eagle” starring Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton. From the producers of the blockbuster …
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Based on the gripping real-life survival story that captivated the world’s attention, “The 33” follows the never-before-told personal journeys and miraculous events surrounding the collapse of the Chilean gold and copper mine and the subsequent retrieval and rescue of all 33 miners after being buried alive 700 meters below the earth’s surface for 69 days …
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