Month: June 2016
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Brillante Mendoza shares background on latest masterpiece ‘Ma’ Rosa’
2009 Cannes Best Director Brillante Mendoza talks about Ma‘ Rosa, his inspiration, and the challenges in making the film. 1. Describe Ma’ Rosa in one sentence Ma’ Rosa shows us a glimpse of a Filipino family set on a typical district in Manila, giving us a slice of life in a community. 2. What made you…
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Guatemalan legend becomes horror story in ‘Worry Dolls’
The Guatemalan Indians teach their children an old story. If you have worries, you share them with your Worry Dolls at bedtime. You put the dolls in a box and come dawn, the worries have been taken away. In the upcoming horror movie of the same title, Worry Dolls is set in a peaceful town…
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Shang Cineplex participates at World Premieres Film Festival 2016
Shang screens best new films of the World Premieres Film Festival. Leading lifestyle destination Shangri-La Plaza is set to host one of the anticipated runs of the World Premieres Film Festival, the cinematic showcase of critically-acclaimed works and upcoming film directors from across the globe. All the entries in the festival will either make a…
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Scratastrophic chillogy continues in ‘Ice Age: Collision Course’
In the latest epic family movie adventure Ice Age: Collision Course from the highly successful Ice Age franchise, audiences worldwide will be propelled to new environments like the cosmos and a crystallized world known as Geotopia, with many of the characters beginning their own new journeys. Scrat is, of course, one character that never changes.…
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MOVIE REVIEW: The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
The Legend of Tarzan (2016) Review Directed by David Yates The Legend of Tarzan is yet again one of those movies that try to recreate an age-old tale about a character who’s been around in children’s literature since forever. The most recent remarkable rendition in living millennial memory is none other than the 1999 Walt…
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World Premieres Film Festival 2016 to debut Vietnam’s ‘Yen’s Life’ at Uptown Cinemas
Uptown Cinemas kicks off the 3rd annual World Premieres Film Festival at Uptown Mall with an exclusive Gala Premiere of the Main Competition entry, Yen’s Life at Uptown Cinema 1, on June 30, 7:30 PM. READ MORE: GUIDE: World Premieres Film Festival 2016 The event will be attended by acclaimed foreign directors including the international jury…
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Jun Lana highlights cinematic elements at Yabang Pinoy’s screening of ‘Anino sa Likod ng Buwan’
Funded primarily by the profits earned from working for mainstream cinema, Anino sa Likod ng Buwan (Shadow Behind the Moon) is a “passion project” which strives to engage in non-traditional ways of storytelling, accomplished filmmaker Jun Robles Lana said June 25 in a masterclass held at U-View, Fully Booked, Bonifacio Global City. Citing influences from the…
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Enchong Dee excited for acting comeback in ‘I Love You to Death’
Swimmer-turned-celebrity Enchong Dee expressed excitement for making a comeback in his acting career, in a press conference held June 27 at 38 Valencia Events Place for Regal Entertainment and The Idea First Company’s upcoming romantic horror-comedy film I Love You to Death. After recording a self-titled album for Star Records and doing work outside the movie industry,…
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MOVIE REVIEW: Anino sa Likod ng Buwan (2015)
A search for the truth behind mere surfaces—the subject matter presented to us by director Jun Lana’s 2015 masterpiece, Anino sa Likod ng Buwan (Shadow Behind the Moon). I had the chance to see the one-shot-one sequence film when it was screened recently at Fully Booked Bonifacio Global City’s U View theater, an event organized…
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WATCH: New trailer for ‘Lights Out’ sets up horror story
New Line Cinema has just revealed the new trailer for “Lights Out,” featuring the backstory of the haunting entity and more creepy scenes that test your fear of the dark. Watch the trailer here below. From producer James Wan (“The Conjuring”) comes the new horror film “Lights Out,” a tale of an unknown terror that…
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