Manoro (2006)

Manoro (Brillante Mendoza, 2006) English Title: The Teacher Against the stylized eroticism of Masahista ( The Masseur , 2005), and the glos...

Marie Antoinette (2006)

Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006) Sofia Coppola's anachronistic portrait of one of history's most notorious queens, for me, fee...

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood, 2006) Joe Rosenthal's photograph of six soldiers struggling to raise an American flag atop the hig...

Numbalikdiwa (2006)

Numbalikdiwa (Bobi Bonifacio, 2006) Bobi Bonifacio's Numbalikdiwa starts promisingly. A young man goes home with a bag of skewered meat...

The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)

The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron, 2005) During Bettie Page's career peak, she has been described as the pin-up queen of the univer...

Bona (1980)

Bona (Lino Brocka, 1980) The titular character (Nora Aunor) of Lino Brocka's film Bona has an irrational devotion for a bit player in a...

Kaleldo (2006)

Kaleldo (Brillante Mendoza, 2006) English Title: Summer Heat The opening titles of Brillante Mendoza's sophomore effort Kaleldo ( Summ...