ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
The latest teen heartthrob hero rises in the toy-to-movie “Max Steel” based on Mattel’s most popular action figure of the same name. Starring in the titular role is Ben Winchell, best known for his roles on Disney Channel’s “A.N.T. Farm” and USA’s “Necessary Roughness”. Director Stewart Hendler and screenwriter Christopher Yost (who also …
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Multi-awarded director Jun Lana made sure that Regal Entertainment’s Metro Manila Film Festival entry, ‘Haunted Mansion,’ is tops not just in the technical aspect but in the acting department as well. This year’s biggest horror movie topbills Janella Salvador, Marlo Mortel and Jerome Ponce with senior actors Iza Calzado, Dominic Ochoa and Janice De Belen. …
JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS (2015) Review Directed by Jon M. Chu A bland rise to fame drama that doesn’t know the essence of fame, being in the younger years and family. Jem and the Holograms’ strong suit is its song number sequences but there is not enough for it to save the film from being …
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As the Philippine opening of Paramount Pictures’s “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse” looms, the studio has now released two new clips from the teen-oriented horror comedy for fans to enjoy. Watch the clip titled “How to Build a Campfire” and a trailer cutdown Packed with blood-soaked gags and inappropriate humor, “Scouts Guide” is said …
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As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her band of sisters begin a one-in-a-million journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden. In Universal Pictures’ “Jem and the Holograms,” four aspiring musicians will take the world by storm when they see that the key …
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SINAG MAYNILA’s Audience Choice Award Winner, Ninja Party is back in select cinemas starting September 30. Top female students of an elite Catholic high school discover their identities and sexualities amidst clashing values. Conflicts between themselves, their families, and their school force them to grow up and grow in friendship. They face slutshaming when a rumor spreads …
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ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL (2015) Review Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Embracing the awkwardness in a deeply moving tale of friendship. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl may be light for some but its emotions are encaged as the characters are in their sensitive phase of their lives. The story is as …
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Jesse Andrews’ thought-provoking and moving young-adult novel “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” took readers by surprise with a truly contemporary coming-of-age story, packed with smart original dialogue and fully realized teen characters. Now director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon has perfectly captured the book’s offbeat humor, rare sensitivity and unique worldview in a feature film that …
The critics who have earlier seen the tragicomedy teen movie “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” by acclaimed and Emmy nominee Alfonso Gomez-Rejon starring extremely talented trio Thomas Mann, Olivia Cooke and RJ Cyler have been vouching that the film has the potential to outperform last year’s “The Fault In Our Stars” – both …
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