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This year marks 100 years of Philippine Cinema, and Sine Sandaan, an annual film celebration, is paying homage to the golden age of Philippine films by transforming New Frontier Theater into an old school art deco cinema. Some might argue that deco is dead, but ...

The world's first feature movie, The Story of the Kelly Gang, came out in 1906. It was not long after when moving pictures became an industry of their own. With the cost associated with making a film, you would think filmmakers would make ...

The Oscar is generally considered one of the most prestigious awards a filmmaker can acquire in their lifetime. Competition is stiff and the selection process is stringent, but behind every nominee lies The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: a collective of seasoned individuals ...

Aquaman is the lamest superhero. For the longest time, the king of Atlantis has been the butt of superhero jokes. He swims, he talks to fish, and he’s pretty useless out of water. But for a short while in the 90’s, under ...

It's been five years since Erik Matti's On the Job, the director's breakthrough "neo-noir" film starring Joel Torre, Piolo Pascual, Gerald Anderson, and Joey Marquez. Since then, the film's writer-director has announced a six-part spinoff miniseries, followed by the news that the producers have ...

The Avengers 4 trailer has been so feverishly anticipated that even Christmas Day itself will be hard put to top it. But it's finally here.Fans have been eagerly watching for any news regarding the release of the movie, which was first announced in October 2014 as a part 2 ...

How can a biopic about one of the most fascinating and flamboyant performers of our time live up to the legend? It can’t. And it doesn’t have to. The most wonderful part of Bohemian Rhapsody, a film about the band Queen and its charismatic ...

It’s a story so quintessentially romantic and tragic that it’s made and remade four times. This celebrity Cinderella story of rising and falling stars originally came out in 1937, remade with Judy Garland and James Mason in 1954, and again in 1976 ...

Last year's animated feature Loving Vincent gave audiences a taste of how beautiful and moving—and incredibly difficult—a Vincent Van Gogh biopic could be, but it also showed us that we desperately needed a live-action version in our lives.And so director Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate ...

If you saw I'm Drunk, I Love You in cinemas last year, you may have already seen Jerrold Tarog's Angelito, an 18-minute short film that takes place immediately after the events of Heneral Luna, and serves as a bridge to the upcoming Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral. ...

10 | Game Of Thrones followed their best season ever with something that felt a bit rushed and forced. To be fair, I think season 7 was underwhelming only because GoT really is one of the best shows this decade, if not ...

The new adaptation of Stephen King's It is a jolly good movie. It's also made lots of money, and quite right too. But some people have said that Pennywise isn't actually terribly scary. Unsettling, yep. Disquieting, indubitably. But not actually wee-yourself terrifying.For those who ...

With Game of Thrones out for the next five hundred days or so (!), you now have an hour-long void in your lives. Remember movies, TV’s more mature cousin that was kind of raised in Europe? Now's the time to fill that GOT-shaped hole ...

Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is one of the season’s best films. It grossed over $200 million worldwide, was well-received by critics, and is a serious contender for the awards season—that much is difficult to argue with.Does everyone have to like it, though? While ...

A stark difference between books and film is that the latter relies heavily on the visual medium; any cinephile will tell you that each onscreen element counts. Details such as a film’s color and lighting, props and, yes, a character’s sartorial choices ...

We can all pretty much agree that 2016 was a strange year for a lot of things, but it was a great year for Philippine cinema. With the most recent Metro Manila Film Festival, we saw dynamic filmmaking through movies like Seklusyon and Sunday ...

After 16 years of pseudo-hibernation, director Mike de Leon surprised everyone when he announced in late 2016 that he would be making another movie.Movie fans were even more surprised when De Leon revealed that the movie, Citizen Jake, would star real life ...

Early yesterday, STX Entertainment dropped the first international trailer for The Foreigner, a new action movie starring Jackie Chan, directed by Casino Royale’s Martin Campbell, and slated for release later this year.Comparisons to 2008’s Taken were drawn immediately, because the movie seems ...

1| Don't go in blind.Never go into a shoot where you haven’t seen what your actors look like naked. At the risk of being called a perv, I make sure that I see the body parts that I will be filming for ...

The year 2016: a good year for cinema, if little else. Leo won his Oscar, Ryan Gosling returned as a leading man and Tom Ford showed the world that he can make a film that will stand the test of time - ...