ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
A SILENT VOICE (KOE NO KATACHI, 2017) Review Directed by Naoko Yamada Bullying is quite an odd theme for an animated film to feature but A Silent Voice seem to think otherwise. With a beautiful animation and relatable characters, A Silent Voice is more than just an entertainment to the audience, it is a story that also tells a …
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“Touched with Fire” is a deeply moving love story starring Katie Holmes and Luke Kirby that centers on two poets with bipolar disorder whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. Their chemistry is instant and intense, driving each other’s mania to new heights. Swinging from fantastical highs to tormented lows, they ultimately must choose …
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Winner of Best Supporting Actor for Dev Patel and Best Screenplay at the British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTA), Lion , who was also nominated at the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress for Nicole Kidman, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Original Score will finally arrive in Philippine cinemas …
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Hailed as one of the finest actors of their generations, Ewan McGregor and Dakota Fanning star in an affecting story of a family in the midst of a post-war era in “American Pastoral.” McGregor directs and stars in “American Pastoral” that looks at the life of the legendary high-school athlete Seymour “the Swede” Levov …
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Two-time Golden Globe® nominee Ewan McGregor stars and debuts as a director in the deeply affecting father-daughter story “American Pastoral” based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Philip Roth that chronicles the profound changes in the last half-century of American life. The adaptation focuses in on the Swede’s search for his daughter and the resonant …
2 COOL 2 BE 4GOTTEN (2016) Review Directed by Petersen Vargas A film that is packaged as a coming-of-age gay film, you wouldn’t expect it to go intense, dark and twisted. So, how would you tell a coming-of-age story? Go deeply personal, that’s how director Petersen Vargas wants to tell the story of Felix Salonga, played …
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Stories of hope from real survivors of the fiercest and most devastating typhoon that ever hit the Philippines are featured in the highly-inspiring movie “We Call Her Yolanda.” The movie will have limited special screenings on March 25 (Saturday) at Greenbelt3 cinema1 at 10:00am and on March 26 (Sunday) at Powerplant cinema 1 at 8:00pm. Proceeds of the screenings are for the benefit of …
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Other TBA films “Birdshot”, “Patintero” to be showcased in OAFF 2017
HACKSAW RIDGE (2016) Review Directed by Mel Gibson It’s quite a unique mix of themes, having to tackle a war story that has romance and a main character that has deep faith and rejects murder or killings, Hacksaw Ridge is not your ordinary war hero story. If not for the cancellation of The Amazing Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield …
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In the psychological thriller SHUT IN, Naomi Watts plays a child psychologist who is still grieving the car accident that killed her husband and paralyzed her step-son (Stranger Things’ Charlie Heaton). Living with the latter in an isolated New England house, Watts’ character begins to experience unsettling phenomena that may or may not have something …
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