The movie's visuals are impressive, with well-choreographed battle scenes, authentic costumes and weapons, and stunning cinematography that captures the beauty and harshness of the Philippine jungles. Overall, The Great Raid is a compelling war movie that pays tribute to the valor of the soldiers ...
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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...
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...
John Sayles’ newest film,Amigo,inspired in part by the director’s work on a novel, “A Moment in the Sun,” focuses on a vital American incursion overseas that has been all but paved over in our history books — the Philippine-American War, occurring at the cusp of a new century, ...
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...
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 ...
He has been a guest artist with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet Etudes of South Florida, Bayerisches Staatsballett, Philippine Ballet Theatre, The Daring Project and Stars of American Ballet. He also appeared in Fred Wiseman's documentary Ballet. Films Acted In: Barbie in the Nutcracker ...
Dolph is the man as Joe, tattooed and badass with a history in biker gangs that makes him gun shy (until he isn't). Melissa Molinaro is believable as Venus, in that I can’t stand her. That’s the point though, at least at the beginning; she’s a brat with too much money. ...