
MMFF 2024 Movie Review: ‘Isang Himala’
This year's Metro Manila Film Festival boasts of a lineup of films that—finally—have begun focusing on quality as much as ...

MMFF 2024 Movie Review: ‘And the Breadwinner Is…’
This year's Metro Manila Film Festival boasts of a lineup of films that—finally—have begun focusing on quality as much as ...

MMFF 2024 Movie Review: ‘Espantaho’
This year's Metro Manila Film Festival boasts of a lineup of films that—finally—have begun focusing on quality as much as ...

MMFF 2024 Movie Review: ‘Uninvited’
This year's Metro Manila Film Festival boasts of a lineup of films that—finally—have begun focusing on quality as much as ...

MMFF 2024 Movie Reviews: ‘Green Bones’, ‘The Kingdom’
This year's Metro Manila Film Festival boasts of a lineup of films that—finally—have begun focusing on quality as much as ...

Movie Review: Outside (2024)
Carlo Ledesma’s Outside offers an interesting take on the zombie apocalypse genre by turning its lens inward, trading blood-soaked thrills ...

JAPAN CUTS 2024 Movie Review: Following the Sound (2023)
Recurring grief can sneak up on someone, sometimes unannounced. After all, one can say that it’s basically unexpressed love with ...

JAPAN CUTS 2024 Movie Review: Six Singing Women (2023)
A Tokyo-based photographer receives a phone call one day, informing him of the death of his estranged father. Wanting nothing ...

Movie Review: I Am Not Big Bird (2024)
Usually, Philippine films under the sex-comedy/drama genre get categorized as such only by name. While marketed as mature-role vehicles for ...

REVIEW: Dear Comrades! (2021)
*Warning: This piece contains spoilers for Dear Comrades! The movie is not out yet everywhere, so proceed with caution.* Director ...

Movie Review: City of God (2002)
If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you. “City of God,” Fernando Meirelles’ film ...

THE LIGHTEST DARKNESS (Russia, 2018)
Greetings again from the darkness. In the movie world, good things rarely happen on a train. In fact, whether it’s ...

Parasite Review
This isn’t the first time Bong Joon Ho has caused a big stir, his 2017 Okja was famously booed at ...

CORPUS CHRISTI (Boze Cialo, 2019, Poland)
Greetings again from the darkness. There are two camps of thought. You either believe people don’t change, or you believe ...

STOLEN (2020, Japan)
Greetings again from the darkness. As the film opens, we are informed that since 1977, there have been 13 confirmed ...