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: 'Rigodon' is Lushly Drawn, Piercingly Affectionate

After his lavishly attractive lark Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles , director Erik Matti returns, remaining as triumphant, with another featur...

Review: 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2' Ends With Bloods Dry

"I thought we would be safe forever, but 'forever' isn't as long as I'd hoped," the red-eyed Bella Swan-Cullen shr...

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: '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: '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: '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 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: '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: 'Step Up: Revolution 3D' Doesn't Quite Step Things Up Much.

Gotye inspired flash mob dancing and going political were the gimmicks behind Step Up: Revolution , the fourth installment to the Step Up fr...

REVIEW: 'The Dictator' (Suck it, Adam Sandler!)

Those are breasts? I thought you were a boy. Cohen is hilarious. A scene in which Wadiya tyrant Adm. Gen. Omar Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) i...

REVIEW: 'Young Adult' Teaches You a Thing or Two!

'Mean Girls' is a "crispy on the edge but soft in the middle" comedy that discusses a fragile subject matter. Seven years ...

'Rock of Ages' is "Nothing But a Good Time"!

Even though I belong to the 21 st century generation, I could not mask my “satisfied and had a good time” face as I walk out of the theater...

Nothing Much to Expect in 'What to Expect When You're Expecting'.

It is becoming a Hollywood trend that studios gather a handful of gleaming stars to buff up a thin and weak narrative and hope that the audi...

'The Lucky One' is Out of Luck.

Nicholas Sparks' novels' tear-jerking formula, his literary skills are of undeniably stunning fashion, for me works in degrees of fl...

'Titanic 3-D' Defies Mortality of an Old Melodrama.

James Cameron is one of those people that I'd like to chatter with. I'd like, someday, to have a coffee with him; enjoying each sip ...

'This Means' Crap, I mean 'War'.

Doubtful that I could get a good time, I entered the cinema. She is Reese Witherspoon and he is Chris Pine. The other he is Tom Hardy. It wa...