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Pickup on South Street: Underground Movie Review 2008-12-28 21:53:00 We bet you have never heard of "Pickup
on SouthStreet
" or maybe even about Richard Widmark or Jean Peters. Well the reason is this film was released decades ago. We believe this is the oldest film review we have yet. This film was first shown in 1953. During its time, it was rather controversial for some scenes that were considered "violent" and "brutal". The producers should see the films right Read more:South Street
Reel Advice Update 2008-12-26 09:51:00 Hi to all of our readers and hope you are all having wonderful Holidays! Most of you may not know it but our site has just surpassed the 100th post mark. This counts as our 101st! We never thought we would even reach this feat a few months back! It has been a wonderful ride full of ups and downs and thanks to all of your support because without you guys, we won't even be writing movie reviews for Read more:Update
Jose Rizal Tenth Anniversary Screening: A Look Back 2008-12-23 22:21:00 It was the 20th of December and sad to say, instead of going with the throngs and throngs of people to buy Christmas gifts for our individual families, both of us (Vit and Jed) were going to faraway Antipolo to go to the TenthAnniversaryScreening
of Jose Rizal. Both of us were giddy at best as this was a first for us and for our blog. This is a look back on what transpired that Saturday afternoo
The Day the Earth Stood Still: Movie Review 2008-12-15 06:18:00 Most of you should know that The Day the Earth
Stood Still is a remake of a 1951 film of the same name. So just a head's up for everyone that our review is in no way a comparison of the old one and the new one. Sad to say, both of us have not seen the original film. So more or less, our review is an unbiased look into a new film. With that said let us move on to the review. This film has been foll Read more:Movie Review
Marilou Diaz-Abaya Cordially Invites You to a Screening of Jose Rizal 2008-12-10 06:22:00 Let us all play a game and let us try to remember the biggest events that happened ten years ago or the year 1998. Some of you might say that the most significant event would be the Lewinsky Scandal or some might even say that it was Joseph Estrada winning the election and putting our country into great turmoil for the next three years. For us though, it was not those events that truly captures 19 Read more:Screening
Quarantine: Movie Review 2008-12-07 04:52:00 The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield and Quarantine all have one thing in common: they all have that sick-inducing and gut-wrenching shaky camera technique. You know, when the whole movie is on the perspective of a camera/cameraman the whole time. Nothing screams "HURL!" with a camera that feels like it does not know the words "cooperate" and "stay". But moving on, we are really excited about this Read more:Movie Review
Eraserheads Reunion Concert: The Movie: Movie Review 2008-12-03 00:39:00 It was August 30, 2008. It was hot, humid yet comforting as the wind slowly cooled things off. Thousands upon thousands lined up, waited, standing and cheered as a Countdown Timer showed up on screen. And as the clock slowly flickered to the final seconds before lift off, people jumped, screamed and tears fell from their eyes as the Eraserheads were back at last. Yes, as you may all know it was th Read more:Concert
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Bolt: Movie Review 2008-11-30 08:34:00 Who remembers the "superhero" movie, The Underdog? Just like The Wild which we talked about a few reviews ago, The Underdog is just a flopper and never was and never will be a great film. Hell, no one could even remember it except for us. Will Bolt be just thunder and no lightning or will it be one of the sleeper hits this holiday season?Bolt's plot is actually creativity at its best. Bolt (John T Read more:Movie Review
Twilight: Movie Review 2008-11-27 07:53:00 The Twilight
series is known as one of the best-selling fictions of this generation, probably second to Harry Potter. This vampire love story won millions of young fans worldwide and it wasn’t long before it was adapted into a movie. Ever since it became official that Twilight will soon arrive into the big screen, fans all over the world have eagerly waited for the showing day to Read more:Movie Review
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: Movie Review 2008-11-18 09:01:00 Who remembers "The Wild"? We bet our money that at least more than half of our readers would be stump to even know that a CGI-movie came out with that title. Who's fault was it anyway you may ask? Well, there's no one to blame but Madagascar
2's predecessor, Madagascar. Both films showcased almost the same set of animals, with almost the same setting and amazingly almost the same plot as well. Who Read more:Africa
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Quantum of Solace: Movie Review 2008-11-10 06:25:00 And yet welcome to another James Bond film. Quantum of Solace
is the 22nd James Bond film ever created and the second one for Daniel Craig. Quantum of Solace, unknown to many, is a direct continuation of Casino Royale which was a reboot for the Bond franchise. Daniel Craig surprised as all with Casino Royale. Many thought he was not the right guy to portray Bond but looking at his performance from Read more:Movie Review
The House Bunny: Movie Review 2008-11-03 07:16:00 We love Anna Farris from her previous films and we were excited to see that she will once again star in this chick-flick entitled The HouseBunny
. Judging from the trailer itself, we thought that it would be an inferior version of Legally Blonde. We also absolutely hate the movie poster, I mean a lot of people judge if they would see a movie or not just by the movie poster alone and the post Read more:Movie Review
My Only U: Movie Review 2008-11-02 02:57:00 Cathy Garcia-Molina. She is the director of "My Only U" and no doubt she is a hit maker for Star Cinema and the Philippine Romance genre. You might not know this but she is actually the director for "One More Chance" and "A Very Special Love". Both of these flicks were not only blockbusters nationwide but also had some meat and quality in them; and that's saying a lot when you are talking about Ph Read more:Movie Review
The Thing: Underground Movie Review 2008-10-30 09:41:00 Happy Halloween everyone! Since it's the Ghosts and Ghouls season right now, we have a very special review for this scary occasion. We bring you an Underground review of a horror film classic. Most of us would probably never have heard of John Carpenter's The Thing
. Hey, it was released during the early Eighties anyway. But it being unknown and old doesn't mean we should ignore it. So after almost
Pineapple Express: Movie Review 2008-10-27 07:21:00 The movie Pineapple Express
is simply such a surprise in our country, literally. To date, we only know of one cinema house showing this film (in Greenbelt 3 Makati) and its looking like it will stay that way. Such a sad fate for this film as everything in it is just 100% perfection that it is just maddening why no one bothered to spread this film around the country, hell, even the around Metro! Di Read more:Movie Review
Miracle: Underground Movie Review 2008-10-22 07:12:00 Sporting events have that magic that we just cannot explain at all. Coming from the Ateneo, it sometimes just boggles us how sports events like the UAAP Men's Basketball can dictate the success or downfall of a school. If Ateneo wins, the whole school celebrates in giddiness and if it loses to its perennial foe, La Salle, people just feel like the world just ended and the whole school year a mess.
Body of Lies: Movie Review 2008-10-21 08:47:00 Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in an action film? Now that just spells success right? With that in mind, Body of Lies is surely going to be one over-hyped film. Could DiCaprio and Crowe really make this film one of the best action/thrillers ever or will it be just another ordinary, run-of-the-mill flick that everyone watches once then forgets forever?The film is centered on the character of Read more:Movie Review
The Strangers: Movie Review 2008-10-20 07:27:00 The premise of the The Strangers
is about "strangers" that come knocking late at night, hence the title, and the trailer was enough to give us the creeps. Upon watching the movie, we realized one thing: the movie’s plain objective is to just scare the viewers and that's just about it folks! They only wanted the audience to jump off their seats from the suspense filled sound effects and hear Read more:Movie Review
Tropic Thunder: Movie Review 2008-10-12 07:19:00 Tropic Thunder
. This is probably the most hyped-up yet unknown movie this year. Well that is that it was not promoted that well here in the Metro. We haven't heard from it until recently and we only got a glimpse of Tropic Thunder in the jungle we call the Interweb. No trailers, no movie posters until very very recently (tell us if we are wrong about this one okay? :P) and yet we cannot stop ourse Read more:Movie Review
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Mutant Chronicles: Movie Review 2008-10-07 08:03:00 Honestly speaking, we never seen or even heard of Mutant
Chronicles. It is something that just sprout out of nowhere on cinemas everywhere. We can't remember if it was even tried to be marketed by its publisher here. Sad to say though, after watching it, most people would have wanted it that way or even wanting to never ever have heard it or seen it in the first place.The story starts on the Year Read more:Movie Review
Mirrors: Movie Review 2008-10-06 09:40:00 The Western Horror film genre. Its mighty heyday is now but a little glimmer and for us, its been downhill ever since The Sixth Sense came out and more so when the world came to know the Eastern Horror films from Asia, specifically Japan. Hey, Hollywood has even tried to remake those Japanese and Thai horror greats but to no avail, they just lack that subtlety and finesse Eastern Horror film dire Read more:Mirrors
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2: Movie Review 2008-10-01 01:18:00 Most often than not, the second film in most sequels is not as good as the first film. The second movie based on the books by Ann Brashares isn’t an exception. We absolutely loved the first but we felt that the second film did not establish much of a connection to its audience. The reason for this is we think is that they tried to equally showcase the things that happened to all four chara Read more:Movie Review
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My Best Friend's Girl: Movie Review 2008-09-29 08:49:00 Honestly, the romantic-comedy genre has been really struggling and waning. It has been months since we last saw a really decent flick in this cliched genre. Can the team-up of Dane Cook and Jason Biggs (plus the special guesting of Alec Baldwin) really be the saving grace for that mellow yet ticklish bone in all of us? Just to make things clear, we seriously and again, seriously doubt it.The movie Read more:Movie Review
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