Metro Manila Film Festival 2025: Beautiful but flawed
I’mPerfect — which bagged the Best Picture award at the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) — is a love story between Jiro and Jessica, two adults with Down Syndrome, an empowering celebration of people that society would consider as flawed.
Metro Manila Film Festival 2025: An insightful picture of annulment
ANNULMENT is an unpleasant subject matter, because it involves the end of a marriage and the (usually) bitter fight of two parties to gain custody of children or properties.
Metro Manila Film Festival 2025: A love story that is so bad
A YOUNG WOMAN named Savannah (a.k.a. Vanna) finds herself torn between two men: bad boy LA (played by Dustin Yu) who picked her up when she was at her worst, and achiever Vic (Will Ashley) who challenges her to be her best.
Brigitte Bardot, icon of French cinema, 91
PARIS — Actress Brigitte Bardot shot to international fame dancing the mambo barefoot in And God Created Woman, her tousled hair and fierce energy...
Manila’s Finest bags most awards at MMFF; I’mPerfect wins Best Picture
RAYMOND RED’S crime drama Manila’s Finest was the big winner at this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), garnering a total of eight prizes.
It...
Metro Manila Film Festival 2025: Not my story, but why do I cry?
WE USUALLY CRY when watching movies because something there happened to us, or someone we know — or at the very least, the film presents a premise that might remotely hit close to home.
Metro Manila Film Festival 2025: A boring apocalypse
PLANES DROPPING OUT of the sky, families becoming insolvent, fires breaking out everywhere; the world coming undone.
Metro Manila Film Festival 2025: Slick but shallow
This 17th installation of Shake, Rattle, & Roll delivers good ol’ jumpscares (I screamed twice) and passable plots, but sputters towards the end.
Perry Bamonte, keyboardist and guitarist for The Cure, 65
LOS ANGELES — Perry Bamonte, keyboardist and guitarist in The Cure, has died at 65, the English indie rock band confirmed through their official...
Metro Manila Film Festival 2025: A tragic, compelling slow burn
THIS HISTORICAL crime thriller revisits the sepia tones of a romanticized golden age in Philippine history with an all-star cast — and arrives at a powerfully bleak conclusion.
Home Alone’s ‘Wet Bandits’ are medical miracles
By Adam Taylor
THE festive movie season is upon us, and one of my perennial favorites is Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. I will die...
Louvre museum installs security bars on balcony used in October’s heist
FRANCE’S Louvre museum on Tuesday installed security bars on the balcony that burglars used to break in and steal some of the crown jewels.
Four...