Lav Diaz is perhaps the Philippine’s most renowned art house filmmaker today, known for making exceptionally long movies with sociopolitical themes. In 2022 Diaz came out withA Tale of Filipino Violence(Isang Salaysay ng Karahasang Pilipino), a 7 hour long epic set in 1974 that explores how...
Define movie-going. movie-going synonyms, movie-going pronunciation, movie-going translation, English dictionary definition of movie-going. n the activity of attending films at the cinema Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Editio
A swift and clever thriller from Paraguay, '7 Boxes' joins a list of diversions from all over the world -- the German "Run Lola Run"; the Philippine "Slingshot"; and Hollywood's "Premium Rush" -- built for speed, organized chaos and headlong velocity 'If You Build It' Movie Review...
Usually, Philippine films under the sex-comedy/drama genre get categorized as such only by name. While marketed as mature-role vehicles for ... Movie Review: The Batman (2022) “Fear is a tool,” the Batman says in a voiceover, giving the audiences just enough exposition on how things ...
Ocean of Fear: Directed by Richard Bedser. With Richard Dreyfuss, Simon Lee Phillips, Philip Rosch, Christopher Mack. Centered on the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, which had been torpedoed by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945 in the Philippine Sea
From her IMDb bio: "Eloise is a keen and strong martial artist. She trains Muay Kickboxing, Escrima (Philippine Martial Art) and handles a number of weapons and she does her own stunts." We are drawn in to the character's life and left wanting to see more. Across the board, the ...
In the Batch '81 (MVP Pictures, 1982) by Mike de Leon used the school as microcosm of Philippine society under martial law. Seven students are simultaneously applied to be members of a fraternity. The masters asked them to do the rituals of initiations, to test their stability in the decis...
The esteemed Lav Diaz presents his own unique reimagining of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment with the monumental Norte, the End of History (2014), an epic near-four-hour drama set in the northern Philippine province of Luzon. To celebrate the home entertainment release...
If Eugene O’Neill had written a horror script it would play like “Outside,” a Philippine production in which family dysfunction is even more terrifying than the flesh-chomping undead. Think of it as “Long Day’s Journey into Zombie-ism.” Writer/director Carlo Ledesma wastes no time on...
The production was bedeviled by monsoons, huge cost overruns, health problems, and logistical nightmares, as when the Philippine government of Ferdinand Marcos tried to rent Coppola the same helicopters it was using to fight rebels ten miles away. Brando put Coppola under enormous pressure by turnin...