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Movie Review for Hellphone

No Answer

by Philbert Ortiz Dy
posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009 in Movie Reviews
No Answer

Hellphone feels like an approximation of a horror movie, an attempt at producing a scary film by people who don’t really understand or respect the genre. All semblance of plot is abandoned as the film sets about creating scene after scene where a while lady stands around where the characters can’t see them, or grabs something from under the bed. It’s all the dumbest trappings of horror films without any of the context that makes it work. Hellphone only thinks it’s scary. It’s mostly just boring.

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Movie Review for Ang Tanging Pamilya

More Of The Same

by Philbert Ortiz Dy
posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009 in Movie Reviews
More Of The Same

You already know what I’m going to write about Ang Tanging Pamilya. You already know what the movie’s going to be like, even if you haven’t seen it. You know there will be sped up footage of people running around. You know DJ Durano’s going to show up in a role that could have easily been written out. You know that at some point, someone’s going to be reciting lines from some other hit film. You know that the filmmaking is going to be sub par. You know that outtakes are going to run over the credits. You already know exactly what you’re going to get: a whole heaping mess of more of the same from Wenn Deramas.

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Official Poster For Clint Eastwood's 'Invictus' Debuts

posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009 in Movies
Official Poster For Clint Eastwood's 'Invictus' Debuts

Warner Bros. Pictures debuted the official one-sheet poster for Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus,” which stars Oscar® winners Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. Movie is slated for release locally February next year.

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Movies Opening This Week

posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 in Movie Releases
Movies Opening This Week

Check out the movies opening this week!

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Movie Review for Ang Panggagahasa kay Fe

Thought-Provoking Cinema

by Philbert Ortiz Dy
posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 in Movie Reviews
Thought-Provoking Cinema

How does one begin to review a film like Ang Panggagahasa Kay Fe? It would be prudent at the very least, to mention what I wrote in my capsule review in my coverage of the CInemalaya festival. Director and producer Alvin Yapan and producer Alemberg Ang were both my teachers at various points in my education, and most likely played a part in the development of whatever critical acumen I might possess. Take that fact as you like. But the problem I face in reviewing this film has little to do with whatever connections I might have to its prime movers. It is in tackling the density of the film’s literature, in getting entangled in its symbolism and imagery, and how that all matters in the final viewing of the picture. It is in acknowledging that there is more to the film than can be discussed in the 600 hundred or so words that these reviews fill up.

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'Clash of the Titans,' 'Inception' Lead Warner's 2010 Slate

posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 in Movies
'Clash of the Titans,' 'Inception' Lead Warner's 2010 Slate

A gathering of titanic stars (Robert Downey, Jr., Sam Worthington, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sandra Bullock, Hugh Jackman, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Sarah Jessica Parker) and formidable directors (Clint Eastwood, Christopher Nolan, Zack Snyder, David Yates, Rob Reiner) marks Warner Bros.’ illustrious line-up of films for 2010.

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Of Nice And Men In 'All About Steve' And 'Amelia'

posted on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 in Movies
Of Nice And Men In 'All About Steve' And 'Amelia'

There’s nice aplenty in 20th Century Fox’s upcoming endearing films “All About Steve” and “Amelia” brought to the fore by talented actors Bradley Cooper and Richard Gere.

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5th Cinema One Originals Digital Film Festival in Cinema One's 'Kinse'

posted on Monday, November 9, 2009 in Local Movies
5th Cinema One Originals Digital Film Festival in Cinema One's 'Kinse'

Now celebrating its 15 years of leadership in the movie cable viewing landscape, Cinema One has enflamed its winning streak since its inception in 1994. It has now erected its own pillar in the Philippine entertainment arena.

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Jim Carrey is Scrooge in "Disney's A Christmas Carol"

posted on Friday, November 6, 2009 in Movies
Jim Carrey is Scrooge in

Casting Jim Carrey as Scrooge seems such a good idea you wonder why no one thought of it before. Fortunately director Robert Zemeckis did think of it and the result is “Disney’s A Christmas Carol,” which finds the superstar actor playing the ill-tempered miser who is haunted by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet To Come and taught the true meaning of the holiday season.

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Movie Review for Estasyon

Unnecessary Fictions

by Philbert Ortiz Dy
posted on Thursday, November 5, 2009 in Movie Reviews
Unnecessary Fictions

Estasyon wraps a lot of fiction around a kernel of truth. A small true story is made to be a platform for a larger commentary on devotion in this country, and a strained allegory referring to the Passion of Jesus Christ. Also, a few very true scenes shot in Quiapo during the feast of the Black Nazarene are enveloped in a fiction that doesn’t end up saying as much. Estasyon is a story of unnecessary fictions, of wonderful little bits of truth getting buried under a whole lot of excessive writing. Luckily enough, the truth does prevail.

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Movies Opening This Week
Nov 20
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Next Attraction
Nov 25
Ninja Assassin
Nov 25
Disney's A Christmas Carol
Nov 25
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Dec 2
The Stepfather
Dec 2
Amelia
Dec 2
Paranormal Activity
Dec 2
New York, I Love You
Dec 2
Dukot (Desaparecidos)
Dec 9
Two Lovers
Jan 20
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
U.S. Box Office - November 13-15
1. 2012 $65 million
2. A Christmas Carol $22.3 million
3. The Men Who Stare at Goats $6.2 million
4. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, $6.1 million
5. Michael Jackson's This Is It $5.1 million
6. The Fourth Kind $4.7 million
7. Couples Retreat $4.3 million
8. Paranormal Activity $4.2 million
9. Law Abiding Citizen $3.9 million
10. The Box $3.2 million
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Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. A global cataclysm brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic str...

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