Offside (2006)

Offside (Jafar Panahi, 2006) While Offside is essentially a sports film, it is, like all of Jafar Panahi's previous films, a work that i...

Working Girls (2010)

Working Girls (Jose Javier Reyes, 2010) Jose Javier Reyes' Working Girls is a disappointment. Just like the counterfeit bags one of Rey...

Shutter Island (2010)

Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010) “ Which would be worst, to live as a monster or to die as a good man? ” asked Teddy Daniels (Leonardo...

Paano Ko Sasabihin? (2009)

Paano Ko Sasabihin? (Richard Legaspi, 2009) English Title: How Do I Tell You? For Ehryl (Erich Gonzalez), a young TV soap writer, one of the...

Palito (1934-2010)

The Lovely Bones ( With his brittle, scaffold-like frame and that hilariously horrified smile, Reynaldo “Palito” Hipolito, 75, was like a ph...

Babe, I Love You (2010)

Babe, I Love You (Mae Czarina Cruz, 2010) With its lay of claim on the corniest of the many corny verses in the 1979 Styx hit Babe to christ...

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 2010) True to expectations, Tim Burton's Wonderland is a sumptuous visual feast. The alternate universe...

Ateneo Video Open 11: Short Narrative Finalists

Abijoyce Padilla's Pigil Hininga ( Bated Breath , 2009) Ateneo Video Open 11: Short Narrative Finalists Abijoyce Padilla's Pigil Hin...

Waiting for Sancho (2008)

Waiting for Sancho (Mark Peranson, 2008) In black and white, a solitary angel stands against a desolate background of sand and rocks. Motion...