There will be Reviews…soon!!! July 2009 Movie Releases in the Philippines

The summer movie season is already in full swing not just in the United States but also around the world.  Seemingly enough, even as our local multiplexes continue to be dominated by tentpoles like Transformers: Rise of the Fallen and the upcoming Harry Potter installment (which I’ve been hearing is quite, actually, good)

How Far Bay Must Have “Fallen”

Warning: may contain spoilers.

What made Michael Bay’s initial live-action adaptation of Hasbro’s toy line- turned-80’s-era-cartoon series Transformers so (guilt-pleasuringly) enjoyable was not just the way he managed to have real-life vehicles transform on-screen into humanoid robots (and vice versa) look so convincing,  he even gets these verbose hunks o’ metal to show a comic side. 

There will be Reviews…soon!!! June 2009 Movie Releases in the Philippines

Again, it’s this time of the year when we officially welcome the Summer Blockbuster™ season – it’s that time when the event pictures all come rolling out, over here more or less day-to-date with the US (you know, piracy is such a pain the ass for Hollywood).

Zai jian, Kwai Chang Caine

David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine

RIP, David Carradine (1936-2009)

Now…THAT’S the way to go!!!

Just last week, I got to finish viewing the oh-so-obviously-titled “Bruce Campbell vs. Army of Darkness: The Director’s Cut”. Apparently enough, that installment has Bruce’s “boomstick”-wieldin’ hero Ash literally exiled to the

All sound, all fury

Terminator Salvation, honestly, got me sleeping in some parts (in spite of the THX-enhanced sound).  Could it be because what that film really needed was a sense of humor, one that was present (surprisingly enough) in the first

There will be Reviews..soon!!! May 2009 movie releases in the Philippines

Now it can be said…Star Trek officially kicks off the Summer Blockbuster™ season throughout the Northern Hemisphere as Big Hollywood wheels out its event flicks and tentpoles  for simultaneous release in multiplexes from New York to Nairobi.

Washed-up ’80s stars

Pardon the bad pun, but you gotta “sea” it to believe it!!!

There will be Reviews….soon!!! April 2009 movie releases in the Philippines

Gotta apologize for the long delay in this column…it was just that there were just sooo many things that somehow got into my schedule even when I had laid the groundwork one week before the end of March.

A little Dickens, a lotta Bollywood

At long f r i g g i n’ last, I have finally seen the multiple Academy Award winner Slumdog Millionaire on the big screen – just as I have promised myself, even when DVD-”quality” Oscar screener copies were circulating around Manila right around February (when this film was collecting awards left and right).