6 films to see on the week of June 3-10, 2016
Ang Tatay Kong Sexy
Written and directed by Jose Javier Reyes, Ang Tatay Kong Sexy stars Jinggoy Estrada and Maja Salvador as single parents who meet and fall in love, but find plenty of resistance from all of their children.
MTRCB Rating: PG
Invoked
A group of young people go to an abandoned hostel in Ireland where they play a really creepy game — and disappear. Directed by Humberto Rosa and Thairon Mendes, it stars Patrick Murphy, Ciara Rose Burke, and Lynn Larkin.
MTRCB: R-13
My New Sassy Girl
In this Korean romantic comedy, a middle aged man marries his first love, despite opposition from friends and family. But married life turns out to be much tougher than he could have ever imagined. Directed by Jo Geun-sik, it stars Victoria Song, Tae-hyun Cha, and Mina Fujii.
MTRCB Rating: PG
Teniente Gimo
Roland M. Sanchez directs John Regala, Julio Diaz, and Mon Confiado in this horror movie adapted from an old radio serial drama. It is set in a small town in 1950s Iloilo which finds itself dealing with an aswang.
MTRCB Rating: R-13
A Hologram for the King
Cultures clash when American businessman (Tom Hanks) travels to Saudi Arabia to try to close what he hopes will be the deal of a lifetime with the help of a wise-cracking taxi driver (Alexander Black) and a Saudi doctor (Sarita Choudhury). Directed by Tom Tykwer who also wrote the script with Dave Eggers. “It takes an actor with the finesse of Tom Hanks to turn a story of confusion, perplexity, frustration and panic into an agreeably uncomfortable comedy,” writes Stephen Holden of the New York Times. “Writer-director Tykwer skillfully presents a series of fantastical scenes in a way that has us thinking: Sure, that could happen. This is quite simply a beautiful film to behold,” writes Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times.
MTRCB Rating: R-13
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael return to battle badder villains, alongside April O’Neil (Megan Fox), Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett), and a newcomer: the hockey-masked vigilante Casey Jones (Stephen Amell). After supervillain Shredder (Brian Tee) escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman (Tyler Perry) and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop (Gary Anthony Williams) and Rocksteady (WWE Superstar Stephen “Sheamus” Farrelly), to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. Directed by Dave Green. “Longer, louder and boasting even more hardware, it does everything to generate the illusion of bleeding-edge bang-per-buck, while cribbing shamelessly from 1991’s Secret of the Ooze,” writes Mike McCahill of the Guardian.
MTRCB Rating: PG
