ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
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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Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, “The Shack” takes us on a father’s uplifting spiritual journey. After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips (Sam Worthington) spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack …
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The highly acclaimed and award-winning movie “Poveda” about the inspiring true story of the revolutionary St. Pedro Poveda will open in selected Ayala Malls Cinemas in the Philippines on December 7. Awarded with Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director at the recently concluded Buenos Aires Non Stop Art Festival, “Poveda” is based on a true …
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BEN-HUR (2016) Review Directed by Timur Bekmambetov This is a story about brotherhood, about a family, about faith, about sacrifices and pain. This is the story of Judah Ben-Hur.A remake of the 1959 film which was adapted from Kaw Wallace’s 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. It won a record of 11 Academy …
Paramount Pictures’ and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ “Ben-Hur” is a spectacular, action-adventure in epic scale in the tradition of “Gladiator.” But more than that, it is a timely story of forgiveness, the very core of the original novel from which the film is based, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace. In fact, although “Ben-Hur” …
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Brazilian superstar Rodrigo Santoro (“300,” “300: Rise of an Empire”) plays Jesus Christ, who crosses paths with the film’s mortal hero, Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) in Paramount Pictures’ epic action adventure “Ben-Hur,” based on Lew Wallace’s timeless novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Watch the music video “Ceasefire” by King and Country for “Ben-Hur” Directed by …
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1986- She loved her country but hated God. That is why Estrell, played by Princess Punzalan, made sure that each of her 4th year High School students would do the same. “Serve the people!” she said. “But believe only in yourself.” Her brilliant but broken favorite student, Bernard, played by John Prats, did just as …
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MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN (2016) Review Directed by Patricia Riggen From the humble success of Heaven is For Real, Sony decided to follow up with the another faith-inspired story about family. Miracles From Heaven though isn’t as charming as Heaven is For Real with its cute lead boy, journeying life after a miraculous healing that happened to him. The story …
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In Philippine cinemas April 6, 2016.
The core of Columbia Pictures’ new inspiring film “Miracles From Heaven” is a mother on fire, an impassioned, if constantly questioning 21st Century woman, who never lets up or lets go in her efforts to keep her child from harm. But to get deep into the grit and turmoil of that kind of maternal drive, …
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