JUN Robles Lana’s dark comedy on innocent civilians getting caught up in the current drug war’s watchlists was the big winner in this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), bagging a total of eight awards.

ADAPTED from the critically and commercially successful 2014 South Korean action thriller of the same name, A Hard Day pulls no punches when it comes to the intensity of both acting and fighting scenes.

HOW lucky I am to be old enough not to deal with the problems faced by the characters in the pandemic rom-com Love at First Stream.

LOS ANGELES —  Daniel Radcliffe remembers the embarrassing haircuts, Emma Watson found meeting up with her Harry Potter cast mates “an unexpected joy,” and director Christopher Columbus recalls the sets for the movies as “the greatest playground in the world.”

JEAN-MARC VALLÉE, a Canadian best known for directing the Oscar-nominated film Dallas Buyers Club and Emmy-winning HBO series Big Little Lies, died suddenly at his cabin outside Quebec City. He was 58.

DRAWING is a powerful tool of communication. It helps build self-understanding and can boost mental health.

THERE’S much to be said about how notions of joy, faith, and resilience are a central part of the Filipino psyche, especially in how we deal with hardship — whether it’s overseas workers and medical frontliners hailed as heroes for making immeasurable sacrifices for family and country, or, as seen in this film, children boisterously playing and women fervently praying to cope with the aftermath of a life-shattering typhoon.

AN unlikely pairing, a getaway to the province, secrets and revelations, and a turn of events make up the formula of this romantic comedy.

HUWAG Kang Lalabas focuses on different historical periods, mysterious disappearances, and deaths, told in three short horror stories.

LOS ANGELES — Spider-Man: No Way Home unwrapped the best Christmas gift of all, becoming the first pandemic-era movie to cross $1 billion at the global box office.

STYLED as a horror flick, Nelia, actually a suspense film, has more to it than meets the eye.

WHEN an innocent person’s persistence is tested, the outcome may also go against them.