MMFF Review: 'Sisterakas' - Diminishing Satire

As far as joint features by Vice Ganda ( Praybeyt Benjamin ) and TV/film director Wenn Deramas ( This Guy's In Love With You Mare ) go, ...

MMFF Review: 'Sossy Problems' - Distasteful Indolence

Andoy Ranay's  Sossy Problems (or Sosy Problems , but "sosy" isn't actually the correct spelling, is it?)   is an indolent...

MMFF Review: 'Shake Rattle and Roll 14' - Inept

Chito S. Roño ( The Healing )  beckons the directing duties to all three segments of this year's Shake Rattle and Roll  (aka The Invasio...

Review: 'Rise of the Guardians' Hefts Composite Narrative and Powerful Imagery

Rise of the Guardians , despite its juvenile premise, is pretty clever. The whimsical adventure is contrived to resemble a superhero movie w...

Review: '24/7 in Love' - Hit-and-Miss Romance on Doomsday

Overlong, uneven, miscalculated. Star Cinema's love anthology 24/7 in Love  is a treacherous attempt because one will deduce that anthol...

Review: 'Madaling Araw, Mahabang Gabi' Needs Cohesion

If you think about it, the Philippine Cinema springs new great things, growing to whatever better than it has been before, contrariwise to o...

Review: 'Seeking a Friend For the End of the World' is Smart But Lost

Doomsday is coming in three weeks. "Deliverance", the last-straw space shuttle assigned to stop a 70-mile-wide asteroid named ...

Review: 'Suddenly It's Magic' is No Fantasia to Be Magical

In my more vulnerable years to soupy Star Cinema selections, I've always been reminded by a friend, his advice: "Don't over thi...

Review: 'Six Degrees of Separation From Lilia Cuntapay' Fathoms The Merging of Fiction and Fact

The wonders and emotional troubles of being a perennial horror movie extra is on the flesh of Six Degrees of Separation From Lilia Cuntapay ...

REVIEW: 'Pitch Perfect' - Contagious Musicality

There's always a spot in the chest for these kind of movies -  Pitch Perfect , a film that takes fun to be made and, inspired by it'...

REVIEW: 'Safety Not Guaranteed' - Wistful, Heartwarming, Authentic

When I watch rom-coms, I always take a quick second of silence, I gasp for air, absorbing that the pic must be stuck in the trappings of bot...

REVIEW: 'This Guy's In Love With You Mare' - Loud and Frizzling

If there's a Best Popcorn Director  award, I'd give it to Wenn V. Deramas. The guy is highly commended for his "comic skills...

REVIEW: 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen' is Either Wet or Dry

Odds are, if you watched Salmon Fishing in the Yemen , you're either tooth-ached with it's benign approach or twitched due to overdo...

REVIEW: 'Dyagwar' Settles in the Monotonous Territory of an Uninspired Comedy

In Philippine Cinema,   a movie like Dyagwar  shows a lot of premise: Two cousin security guards (Boom Labrusca and Eric Fructuoso) watches ...

REVIEW: 'Ted' - Offensive, Rude, Articulate and Mostly Funny

When you watched the trailer for Ted , and you decided you'll rush to the theaters, odds are you long accepted that you're in to som...

REVIEW: 'Hotel Transylvania' Makes Kids Happy and Makes Adults Otherwise

Technically, it's not correct to tell that Hotel Transylvania is nonsense as it simply makes clear sense. In here, monsters are freaked ...

REVIEW: 'Ruby Sparks' -- Intelligent, Magical and Glorious

Ruby Sparks  is a new project for spouse-tandem Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris ( Little Miss Sunshine ) about an awful mess of a young no...

REVIEW: 'The Watch' - Unbearably Uninspired and Lazy

No wonders my critic-ish side went tingling as I hurdle on decisions on whether or not I should watch The Watch , an unbearably uninspired s...

REVIEW: 'I Do Bidoo Bidoo' -- Shoe-tapping. Arty. Heartfelt.

Musicals always strike me as an alienated country. My pieces of pie are comic book movies, crime thrillers and if not too dumb, horrors (thi...

REVIEW: 'The Reunion' is Underwritten But Unacceptable, It Isn't.

There's little story and everything else in this relatively big Star Cinema prod, but it needs not to be unacceptable. The Reunion  is t...