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: 'A Secret Affair' - Inept, Hackneyed and Empty

A Secret Affair  is basically a replica of the commercial sleeper No Other Woman . In that goal the film is triumphant, a trifecta for awful...

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: '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: 'Pridyider' - Likable Stupidity and Wrongness!

No arguments are necessary: the horror genre is the most troubled one, clunked with low-grade movies which stupidities sometime come out unb...

REVIEW: 'The Mistress' Thrives in Acting; Frizzles in Characterization.

If The Mistress was fetched out to Hollywood cinema, it would assume the DNA of melancholic films so schmaltzy and tear-jerking. Its bloodli...

REVIEW: 'Captive' is Overlong and Redundant!

Captive  isn't much of director Brillante Ma Mendoza's shape. Or maybe it is.  Kinatay  was one of his early plights that was enough...

REVIEW: 'Amorosa: The Revenge' - Pretentious; Surprisingly Effects.

For whatever reason, Amorosa: The Revenge  appears effective though it adheres to the conventional silliness of the genre. There'd be mo...

REVIEW: 'Guni-Guni' is Widely Uneven and Numbingly Unscary.

While the triumph of Filipino horror with recent pics like The Road and The Healing is arguable, there's  still that part of the genre i...

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...

REVIEW: 'Pinoy Super Kid' is So Very Much Is-Tsupid!

If you're a director and your colleagues will grant you their full trust to make complex decisions. In 'Pinoy Super Kid', direct...

REVIEW: 'The Healing' Has Major Updates But Is Stuck In Conventions.

Faith healing is one of the rather interesting parts of the Filipino culture. When someone who is ill, reaches his breaking point: desperati...

'Hitman' Misses! Alas *teasing laugh.

After the Dark Age of the Philippine action, ' Manila Kingpin: the Asiong Salonga Story ' came in and suggested the 'Renaissance...

'A Mother's Story' is a Quality Drama; at Least.

Star Cinema, the same studio that brought us the critically pleasing--though cliches are still visible--'Anak' top-billed by current...

Special Case: Top 10 Pinoy Films of 2011.

We are only hours until 2012 finally comes rise to surface. While Filipinos are traditionally going back and reminiscing memories of the yea...

Maricel Soriano is a Pride. The Material itself is a Disappoinement. -- Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

The setup: A family faces the aftermath of an earthquake. Emotions stir up. With his previous "My Neighbor's Wife", Jun Lana w...

YouTube - Pilipinas Got Talent - Velasco Brothers - WORLD CLASS!!!!

"> Absofuckinglutely FANTASTIC!!! This is what it's all about! A talent show that features world class talents!!! Another great ...