Shake, Rattle and Roll (1984)

Shake, Rattle and Roll (Ishmael Bernal, Emmanuel Borlaza & Peque Gallaga, 1984) Never mind Emmanuel Borlaza's episode entitled Baso ...

The Insect Woman (1963)

The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura, 1963) Japanese Title: Nippon konchuki A beetle crawls through a patch of soil, climbing a minuscule hill w...

Death of a President (2006)

Death of a President (Gabriel Range, 2006) Gabriel Range's Death of a President has made quite a controversy ever since it opened durin...

Kisapmata (1982)

Kisapmata (Mike de Leon, 1982) English Title: Blink of an Eye The middle class house of the overbearing father (Vic Silayan) pretty much sum...

Itim (1976)

Itim (Mike de Leon, 1976) English Title: The Rites of May Mike de Leon's debut feature film Itim ( The Rites of May ) opens with a seanc...

The Prestige (2006)

The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006) Christopher Nolan's movies are like magicians' tricks. It all sounds enchanting on paper, and...

Shake, Rattle and Roll 2k5 (2005)

Shake, Rattle and Roll 2k5 (Uro dela Cruz, Rico Maria Ilarde & Richard Somes, 2005) Shake, Rattle and Roll 2k5 is the seventh of the fi...

Haze (2005)

Haze (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2005) A man (Shinya Tsukamoto) wakes up in a dark and cramped space. Unable to recall any of the events that precede...

Pamahiin (2006)

Pamahiin (Rahyan Carlos, 2006) English Title: Superstition In horror, sometimes less is more. In his first feature Pamahiin ( Superstition ...

Txt (2006)

Txt (Mike Tuviera, 2006) It's quite unfortunate that the only Filipino films that will ever make money from the local box-office are tee...

The Banquet (2006)

The Banquet (Feng Xiaogang, 2006) Mandarin Title: Ye yan The Banquet , Feng Xiaogang's Shakespearean pageant has been harshly criticized...

World Trade Center (2006)

World Trade Center (Oliver Stone, 2006) There's a remarkable restraint in Oliver Stone's rightfully sentimental take on the 9/11 tra...

White Lady (2006)

White Lady (Jeff Tan, 2006) Tales of female ghosts garbed in white flowing dresses haunting the darkened streets of Manila aren't exactl...

Monster House (2006)

Monster House (Gil Kenan, 2006) Gil Kenan's Monster House opens ala Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump (1994). The camera follows an aut...

Show Me Love (1998)

Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson, 1998) Swedish Title: Fucking Åmål The original title of the film is "Fucking Åmål," referring to th...

Matador (1986)

Matador (Pedro Almodovar, 1986) Pedro Almodovar's Matador opens with a montage of scenes from movies where women die violent and bloody...

Rouge (1987)

Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1987) Cantonese Title: Yin ji kau Master 12 (Leslie Cheung), so-named because he is the 12th son in the Chan family, fa...

Container (2006)

Container (Lukas Moodysson, 2006) After Lukas Moodysson's rather pretentious and critically panned last feature A Hole in the Heart (20...

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, 2006) At eighty one, Robert Altman has established himself as one of the world's most important...

The Man Without a Past (2002)

The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki, 2002) Finnish Title: Mies vailla menneisyyttä Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past is so dis...

Goodbye Lenin! (2003)

Goodbye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker, 2003) After being left by her husband in favor of a more lucrative life in West Germany, Christiane (Katrin...