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LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – This past summer, I happened to watch “The Godfather Part III” again. At the time, it...
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – A delightful mutant hybrid of two seemingly incongruous teen movie genres, cheeky Blumhouse satire “Freaky”...
PERHAPS the greatest achievement of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is how it harnesses the nostalgia factor by paying homage...
Wonders truly never cease, especially if you’re a parent. My son, who belongs more to the “Second Chance” demographic than...
To paraphrase the proverb, “if the mountain will not come to you, you must go to the mountain.” But...
Turning beloved young adult trilogies into films is no easy task. You have to create a middle ground that respects...
By focusing on arguably the most rugged—and therefore the most dynamic—figure of the Philippine war against the American invaders, Jerrold Tarog’s “Heneral Luna” revives the historical action movie and in effect, revitalizes two dormant genres—the action film and more important, the historical film.
The Biblical story of Moses gets a cinematic re-telling in Ridley Scott’s latest film, “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” an interpretation of the slavery and eventual freedom of the Hebrews from Egypt as told in the Book of Exodus.
“Nooo!” One guy wailed, looking utterly crushed when the ticket booth personnel told him the theater was already full. If he dropped on his knees and said the world was about to end, we wouldn’t really blame him. It was past 10 p.m. on a Friday night, and the SM Mall of Asia Cinema ticket booth was still crowded with panicking “Rurouni Kenshin” fans. That night, even had to open one more cinema at the last minute to accommodate the demand. All this for one man who, quite literally, bears a cross for everyone to see.
If you could live your life all over, would you make the same choices? Certainly a difficult question to answer, especially for Eva, the protagonist of “Lo Mejor de Eva” (The Best of Eva), the 2012 erotic crime thriller directed by Mariano Barroso.
