ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
The Film Development Council of the Philippines, in partnership with SM Entertainment will launch Cine Lokal on April 19, 2017 with President Rodrigo Roa Duterte as the Guest of Honor. The event will be held at the SM Mall of Asia in Pasay City with cocktails at 6 PM and the main program at 7 PM. The Philippine premiere of …
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For a limited time you may now watch SPOTLIGHT, the Oscar pick for Best Picture, back at select cinemas: Eastwood, Gateway, Powerplant, Robinsons Galleria, and the newly opened Cinema ’76. The movie won two Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture in the recently concluded 88th Academy Awards. It also had four other nominations …
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The 88th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2015 and took place on February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC, and produced by David Hill and Reginald Hudlin and directed …
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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 …
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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FEBRUARY 3 THE REVENANT (20th Century Fox) (Rated R-16, Also Available in IMAX 2D) Directed by Alejandro Innarity, Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Gomhnalll Gleeson, Will Poulter THE DANISH GIRL (United International Pictures Philippines) (Rated R-16, Exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas) Directed by Tom Hooper, Starring Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander 400 DAYS (Captive Cinema) Directed …
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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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