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Firefighters are one of the bravest people on earth, they go through intensive training and take extreme risks just to save the people in danger around us. But when a wildfire that goes downhill very fast, a team of highly trained firemen gets tested in the fire of their lives. Starring American Award-winning actor Josh …
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Tom Cruise seems to outdo himself stunt-wise with every movie, but his latest for the drug cartel thriller American Made is simply off the charts. In American Made‘s recently released `Crash Featurette’ Cruise lands a light plane full of cocaine – all by himself — in the middle of a street in Atlanta. Cruise has been known to …
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Smuggler. Informant. Patriot. Barry Seal has gone from a well-respected TWA pilot to a key figure in one of the greatest scandals in modern U.S. history. What started out as transporting contraband would lead to Barry’s help in building an army and funding a war. Tom Cruise plays the real-life Barry Seal in Universal Pictures’ American …
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AMERICAN MADE (2017) Review Directed by Doug Liman Tom Cruise and Doug Liman reunite in a film based on a true story about airplanes, drugs and the government. The film tells the messy life of Barry Seals, leaving his decent but boring job flying planes to transport people to flying planes for the CIA. It’s …
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Popularly known as General Hux in Star Wars: The Force Awakens – a character he will reprise in the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Domhnall Gleeson is an Irish actor proving to be one of Hollywood’s most versatile talents—working across a number of diverse roles. Now, Domhnall (pronounced as Donal) Gleeson stars opposite Tom Cruise in Universal …
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“We want to tell a story about five people from different backgrounds, from different places that comes in to tell the story of their survival,” says 9/11 star Olga Fonda. She plays Tina, one of the five who is trapped inside the elevator of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks. Numerous …
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The legendary Oscar winning actor Kevin Costner stars in the highly-inspiring movie based on the lives of real women who dared the odds in “Hidden Figures” along with Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominated Taraji P. Henson, Oscar winner Octavia Spencer, Grammy nominated Janelle Monáe , Golden Globe nominee Kirsten Dunst and Jim Parsons with …
ORO (2016) Review Directed by Alvin Yapan The perfect anti-MMFF movie this year, Oro does not offer a pleasant story for the whole family as it is based on the tragic true events about the “Gata 4 Massacre” in Gata, Caramoan, Camarines Sur and its effect on its viewers is as painfully raw as the one who experienced …
ORO is about the lives of simple folk caught between the crossfire of Kapitana (Idlawan) accused of political patronage, and Patrol Kalikasan using the environment as a front for their own political and economic interests on the small mining community. As the provincial government and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) fight over …
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DEEPWATER HORIZON (2016) Review Directed by Peter Berg From directing a non-fiction war film, Peter Berg is back where he’s good at, mounting suspenseful sequences that also dare to get the audiences emotionally invested with the characters. Deepwater Horizon is a moving tale of courage and bravery. The film does wonder with its drama, its suspense and the humanity …