Centurion

The greatest movie of all time. Okay, the second greatest movie of all time. Okay, maybe we just want to be entertained. We all know that Neil Marshall will be able to pull magic out of a hat one more...

Ouija tops again!

Two weeks in a row, Topel Lee's movie, Ouija, beats out everybody at the Filipino box office 1 1 Ouija (2007) $535,381 -31.1% 65 -3 $8,237 $1,494,240 2 2 2 Ratatouille $397,897 -33.4% 60 - $6,632 $1,128,942 2 3 4...

Ouija

Well looks like mah boy Topel's movie topped the box office last weekend. box office mojo To be honest, I didn't think it was that great a movie. In fact I wasn't able to finish it. But I'm always happy...

Ouija!

After Yam Laranas, the other Filipino director I am personally rooting for is Topel Lee. I saw his short film Bruce around five years ago and have been expecting great things from him ever since. Too bad no one...

Ouija movie trailer out

Topel Lee's Ouija movie trailer out. Will write more about this later. Trailer (YouTube) Crappy ending though. Though most of it looks great....

How I got here...

I think the first movie I watched as a kid was Gus. I don’t remember anything about it. All I know is that it was about a donkey that could kick a football. It was my older sister’s boyfriend who...

A Yam sighting on Yahoo!

Was going through the bulletin boards on pinoydvd.com and came across this Yahoo! article. And looks like Yam himself updated us in his blog with a link to an article in the Hollywood Reporter. Congratulations, Yam! You do us proud....

Love will tear us apart...

I'm not in Cannes, but a feature film on Joy Division? Wish I was there. BBC article...

Mexicutioner!

Coming off a boost of Filipino pride, Manny Pacquiao beat Jorge Solis today. But in other news, Erik Matti's Rounin is coming out this week. www.rounin.tv...

If you happen to be in the Philippines anytime soon...

The Metro Manila Film Festival is still going on. Though, I've only seen two, I'm quite happy with the turn-out so far. One of the films I saw was Super Noypi, did not quite turn out as expected. What should've...

Merry Christmas from Manila

Merry Christmas everybody! This is not really a movie related post. But there will be a "film festival" here this Christmas. All movie theaters are required to only show Filipino films. And these films are even funded by the government....

Super Noypi!

Quark Henares' big budget superhero movie poster, trailer and music video has just been released. Let's see how our boy does with a lot of money and Mother Lily (our most famous Filipino film producer) breathing down his neck....

Ultraaaaaaa Magnetic Taaaaaaaap!

Well as you might have heard, we had a supertyphoon pass through our country recently, which was supposedly stronger than Hurricane Katrina. It knocked down our power lines for a week and Internet for two. Sorry for the delay :)...

Genius!

In honor of Peter Jackson deciding to do a Dambusters remake, I want to share with you, what I think is, one of the funniest commercials ever made. Carling Black Label...

Smooth-E

Without a doubt, this has to be like the best ad ever. Okay, perhaps for this year. It's an ad for Smooth-E BabyFace Foam. It makes me want to lather up right now. Anyway it comes in four parts,...

The Top 5 Filipino Indie Film Directors You've Never Heard of

I am sure many of you have never seen a Filipino film. And you probably will never get to see one yet for awhile. But there is a nascent Filipino indie film industry in this country, and I might...

In a cave, when you scream, it will echooo

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know most of you don't like the poster on the left. But anyway, the US trailer for The Descent has just been released. In my opinion, it reveals too much. For those of you who...

Futbol!

In honor of the World Cup, here are some great Coke commercials. I'm not for Argentina but it don't matter to me!...

A very Descent poster

Well Harry got it, who in turn got it from JoBlo. This has to be the most "I want it" poster in a long time. Click here to find The Descent poster. (Here's another link in case the first one...

More Filipino pride, represent, yo!

Cavite, the film by Ian Gamazon and Neill dela Llana, is going on limited release in New York and Los Angeles this May 26. And is going to be released to more theaters after that. Find out more at...