Antoinette Jadaone directs and cowrites this Filipino romantic comedy, starting Kris Aquino as Love. In Filipino and English.
When an old Asian man is attacked, a young boxer knocks out the aggressor. This turns him into a viral star and gains the attention of the Middleweight champion, who challenges the young boxer to an unorthodox match during the COVID-19 pandemic. Starring Ari Huber, Rhandy Torres and Peter Laboy
Strap Tyler Perry to a theater seat and use this to give him the Clockwork Orange treatment. The impeccably executed opening credit sequence, effortlessly distilling a 40-year marriage down to two minutes, gave reason to think this could be something more than just 2016’s annual nightmare-before-Christmas film. We’ve seen variations …
Cameron Crowe's most "personal" film to date, a nostalgia trip into the rock-and-roll scene of the early Seventies. The names have been changed, to cover up, perhaps, for revisions or lapses of memory, and for ingrained tendencies to sanitize and whitewash. The fifteen-year-old free-lance rock journalist -- Crowe's stand-in -- …
The posthumous swan song of comedian Chris Farley gives no cause for mourning. It is neither good enough nor bad enough for that. Without any question, it constitutes a serious comedown for Christopher Guest, the director of Waiting for Guffman, though perhaps we should remind ourselves that the "mockumentary" on …
Dirty politics in a student-body election, climaxing in a shame faced public confession stolen directly from Preston Sturges's Hail the Conquering Hero. A routine distortion of high school life, with overaged, overskilled actors and with hardly a parent, a teacher, or a textbook in sight; at least halfway serious in …
How can a story laden with this much betrayal and corruption feel this cheerful? Welcome to Hawaii. Bradley Cooper smiles his way through the shenanigans as the wounded hero (physically, morally, spiritually, professionally) who has to choose which parts are worth healing and which can be cut away. Happily, he …
Hawaii, 1959. Mainlanders from the east, Japanese from the west, mixing democratically with the natives and teaching each other the arts of kendo, surfing, and making out, with plenty of enlightenment to share with any viewer under the age of eight. Chris Makepeace, Yuji Okumoto, Don Michael Paul, Tia Carrere; …
If the Nazis had invented Twitter, we wouldn’t have found ourselves in the titular predicament. After news that their only son was killed in battle, a German factory mechanic (Brendan Gleeson) and his wife (Emma Thompson) mount a grassroots campaign to take down the Third Reich, one epistle at a …
Laughable fright show, based on an Atari video game. A long-winded preamble (stretching from an ancient extinct Native American tribe called the Abkani to a current top-secret paranormal agency called Bureau 713), a twenty-two-years-earlier prologue, and an up-to-the-minute dose of first-person narration ("My name is Edward Carnby, and I'm here …
Rom-com about a smart and very ambitious Art Studies major at the University of the Philippines Diliman, who is in a relationship with her total opposite, a Biology student at University of Santo Tomas.
Effective kidnap thriller, even if some of its effect is achieved by cheating. And even if, too, some of the effect is subjected to insufficient elucidation. And even if, in any case, the total effect is cheap and empty. For all that, once we get over the rocky start (the …
An ostensibly romantic comedy throwing together Mr. Uptight (Ben Stiller) and Ms. Free Spirit (Jennifer Aniston), written and directed by John Hamburg, whose mind is quite literally in the toilet. The fart at the men's-room urinals is just a warm-up for the illustrated definition of "shart," an intended fart that …