ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
Ben Kingsley (“Exodus: Gods and Kings”), Charlotte Le Bon (“Project Lazarus”) and James Badge Dale (“Iron Man 3”) lead a group of acclaimed and up-and-coming actors who embraced the story of pulling off high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s caper: to walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers, in Columbia Pictures’ thrilling adventure, …
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Meet the Source, the Science, the Truth and the Legend in the Sports Biopic ‘The Program.’
“Lance Armstrong surveyed the cycling landscape and thought ‘you can’t win without doping’. He had to do it and he believed his teammates had to do it. So, on the US Postal team they established a system of cheating through performance enhancing drugs. It became The Program and if you were on the team you …
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PAPA FRANCISCO: THE POPE FRANCIS STORY (2015) Review Directed by Beda Docampo Feijoó “You must take life as it comes.” Though it feels and looks like a TV movie, Papa Francisco: The Pope Francis Story is a sincere tale of a humble journey to being the most important person of the catholic community. It has a …
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STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (2015) Review Directed by F. Gary Gray “Speak a little truth and people lose their minds.” Even with numerous racial inequality films released, Straight Outta Compton still manages to produce eye-opening sequences that tackles unfair treatment to colored people. With a compelling and insightful story in a gripping direction, the film effortlessly …
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Australian actor Joel Edgerton (“Exodus: Gods and Kings,” “The Great Gatsby”) plays an FBI agent who makes a pact with the devil, in Warner Bros. Pictures’ new crime thriller, “Black Mass.” Based on a true story, the film explores how a deal between ruthless gangster Whitey Bulger (Johnny Depp) and FBI Agent John Connolly (Edgerton) …
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Columbia Pictures’s “The Walk,” the new motion picture event from Academy Award® winner Robert Zemeckis, will be shown in IMAX 3D cinemas in the Philippines starting October 14, simultaneous with big-screen digital 3D and 2D theaters across the country. Watch the film’s IMAX trailer here: Twelve men have walked on the moon. Only one man …
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Don’t look now, but a Filipino-American contributed to the enormous critical and commercial success of Universal Pictures’ “Straight Outta Compton,” which traces the rise of influential (and notorious) rap group N.W.A. The film’s Director of Photography is none other than Oscar-nominated Fil-Am cinematographer Matthew Libatique, himself a life-long fan of hip-hop music. Libatique describes to …
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Casting for the key roles of a complex, emotional, real-life street drama like Universal Pictures’ “Straight Outta Compton” was highly personal and took an immense effort by director F. Gary Gray. Of course, their goal when casting the five coveted roles was the full package of triple-threat performers—who could act, look the part and perform …
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Though, in the context of the time, the FBI and the mob were each something of a boys’ club, there are women in the story Warner Bros. Pictures’ new thriller “Black Mass” who have a distinct impact on what transpires. Portraying them are Dakota Johnson (“Fifty Shades of Grey”), Juno Temple (“Maleficent”) and Julianne Nicholson …
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