The Philippine entry to the 79th Academy Awards, The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros , has been nominated in the Best Foreign Film category of...
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Mini-Reviews: Borat and A Scanner Darkly
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan What a terribly offensive film! Sick and disgusting in s...
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Review: Ang Pamana: The Inheritance
Ringu 's Sadako will forever remain one of cinema's scariest concoctions, but the proliferation of obvious clones since 1998 has bec...
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8th Cinemanila winners
The winners of the 8th Cinemanila International Film Festival are: Grand Prize, Lino Brocka Award (International Competition) Kubrador , Jef...
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Review: Flags of Our Fathers
Clint Eastwood's latest film, Flags of Our Fathers , is a gorgeously shot film about the Battle of Iwo Jima and the soldiers who raised ...
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Review: Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Chan-wook Park's Chinjeolhan geumjassi ( Sympathy for Lady Vengeance ) is a glossy, stylistic revenge movie in the vein of Kill Bill (...
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Review: The Queen
One of this year's most talked about and praised films, Stephen Frears's The Queen lives up to the expectations that all the hype h...
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Review: The Science of Sleep
When a friend who had failed to watch the film with me asked me how it was, I said, "Crazy kooky mad fantastic." To say that Miche...
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Thoughts on the Cinemanila opening
The 8th Cinemanila Internationa Film Festival, perhaps the best in the Philippines in terms of quality and diversity of films shown, is eage...
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Cinemanila schedule
The 8th Cinemanila International Film Festival is starting tonight with Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep , starring Gael Garcia Bern...
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75 Great Performances: #1
1. Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Audrey Hepburn, one of the most beloved actresses of all time, has...
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Mini-Reviews
The Grudge 2 It has its creepy moments, since it takes elements from naturally creepy Japanese horror imagery (and the director is that of t...
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New Layout
Thanks to El for the great new layout of this blog! The pictures making up the banner are my favorite films of each decade. Now I'm dou...
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