‘Anyone But You’ director and cast talk about joys of working together
For director Will Gluck, Anyone But You was a chance to make a romantic comedy that was as funny as any in recent memory. “Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell are simply two of the funniest people I’ve ever worked with,” says Gluck. “You put them on the big screen together, and magic happens.” In Anyone But You, Sweeney […]
Aquaman is returning to cinemas on January 8
Jason Momoa is back in Philippine cinemas as the King of Atlantis. After a two-week break from most local cinemas during the Metro Manila Film Festival, “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” will return to the big screen on January 8. The James Wan-directed superhero sequel, which also stars Patrick Wilson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nicole Kidman […]
Meet Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” in this trailer
Joaquin Phoenix takes the crown. Watch the new trailer for Napoleon, from acclaimed director Ridley Scott, and starring Academy Award® winner Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and Vanessa Kirby as Josephine. The highly anticipated action epic opens in cinemas November 29. Also in IMAX. Watch the new trailer: Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered […]
“The Tunnel to Summer, The Exit of Goodbyes” opens Nov. 1 exclusively at SM Cinemas
Winner of the highly coveted Paul Grimault Prize at the Annecy Festival (2023), “The Tunnel to Summer, The Exit of Goodbyes” is a sweet romantic young adult (YA) coming-of-age film that entwines two young high school students from different backgrounds but share similar pains growing up. In the film, it was an awkward first meeting […]
“Killers of the Flower Moon” is a beautiful direction of an awful story
Director Martin Scorcese has previously decried superhero movies, claiming they are not cinema. Regardless of what you feel about it and whether he’s right or wrong, one thing remains true: he has earned the right to assert his thoughts about movies he feels are good or bad. That’s because he knows how to make a […]
“Target” is so effectively scary
For a quick few seconds, the opening scene of director Park Hee-kon’s suspense-thriller Target can give you a different impression of the movie. When the sequence opens to a series of interconnected shots of people going about their business in the city, with graphic notifications of mobile messages and transactions that pop out of the […]
‘Meg 2: The Trench’ review: Sinks its teeth perfectly
When Jason Statham first went head-to-head with the Megalodon in 2018, it felt to me like it was okay if it’s the last time we see Jonas Taylor because there was really nowhere else this can go. It wasn’t a bad movie. But it wasn’t that great either. Its sequel, however, is a different matter. […]
Khris Davis delivers a knock-out punch performance in ‘Big George Foreman’
George Tillman Jr.’s sports biographical drama Big George Foreman is probably my most surprising movie of the year (so far) because it was really good. I had little idea about the movie. But the name sounded familiar. It wasn’t until several minutes into the movie, when a young Khris Davis, who plays George Foreman, becomes […]
TBA Studios to re-release big winners at the Oscars
TBA Studios has great news for all those who missed the screenings for Everything, Everywhere All At Once and The Whale: starting March 15, these two Academy Award-winning films will be re-released in various local cinemas. Everything, Everywhere All At Once, which swept the recent Oscars with Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best […]
Global spy series ‘Citadel’ set to premiere on Prime Video
Today, Prime Video debuted first-look images for the highly anticipated action-spy thriller Citadel, revealing that the series will premiere exclusively on Prime Video on Friday, April 28, with two adrenaline-fueled episodes, followed by a new episode released weekly every Friday through May 26. The landmark, high-stakes drama is executive produced by the Russo Brothers’ AGBO and […]