Son of God (2010)

The Gospel According to a Weng Weng-Wannabe A Confession as to How Son of God Restored My Faith on Faith by Francis Joseph A. Cruz An aerial...

2010: Philippine Cinema

John Torres' Ang Ninanais 2010: Highlights in Film The year 2010, much more than anything, exposed the many faults of the so-called Phil...

RPG Metanoia (2010)

RPG Metanoia (Luis Suarez, 2010) Luis Suarez’s RPG Metanoia is the first Filipino-made 3D and CG-animated feature length film. Sadly, it se...

Rosario (2010)

Rosario (Albert Martinez, 2010) Albert Martinez’s Rosario , stripped of all its gloss, is essentially about the titular woman, played illust...

My Amnesia Girl (2010)

The Art of Exquisite Fluff A Review of Cathy Garcia-Molina's My Amnesia Girl by Francis Joseph A. Cruz Cathy Garcia-Molina’s My Amnesia ...

Chassis (2010)

Chassis (Adolfo Alix, Jr., 2010) Adolfo Alix, Jr.’s Chassis opens with Nora (Jodi Sta. Maria) ironing the school uniform of her daughter ins...

Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria (2010)

Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria (Remton Siega Zuasola, 2010) English Title: The Dream of Eleuteria In To Siomai Love (2009), director Remton Zuasola...

Layang Bilanggo (2010)

Layang Bilanggo (Michael Angelo Dagñalan, 2010) English Title: Life Sentence An illusion is brilliantly hatched. Playing alongside each othe...

Astro Mayabang (2010)

Astro Mayabang (Jason Paul Laxamana, 2010) Jason Paul Laxamana’s satire Astro Mayabang is about titular Astro (Arron Villaflor, who very ab...

Tsardyer (2010)

Tsardyer (Sigfried Barros-Sanchez, 2010) English Title: Charger Supposedly inspired by the news of the kidnapping of a famous journalist by ...

Dagim (2010)

Dagim (Joaquin Valdes, 2010) English Title: Raincloud There is no denying that Joaquin Valdes’ Dagim ( Raincloud ) is a visually exceptiona...

Zamboanga (1937)

Zamboanga (Eduardo de Castro, 1937) Made for American audiences by actor-turned-director Eduardo de Castro in 1937 and considered to be lost...

Till My Heartaches End (2010)

Till My Heartaches End (Jose Javier Reyes, 2010) The young lovers in Jose Javier Reyes’ Till My Heartaches End have the easiest of romances...

Laruang Lalake (2010)

Laruang Lalake (Joselito Altarejos, 2010) English Title: Boy Toys In an age in Philippine cinema where filmmakers and their films are thirst...

The Urian Anthology 1990-1999

Redemption of a Decade in Philippine Cinema by Francis Joseph A. Cruz We are a sentimental people. We thrive in captured memories: photograp...

The Social Network (2010)

The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010) David Fincher’s The Social Network opens inside a bar where Mark Zuckerberg (Jessie Eisenburg), fu...

On Lav Diaz

On Lav Diaz Lav Diaz, considered by many as the figurehead of what Philippine independent cinema should be, started his career as filmmaker ...

I Do (2010)

I Do (Veronica Velasco, 2010) Sometimes a kiss is just not enough. After the redundancy and tedium of romancing, fighting, and forgiving tha...

Vapor Trail (Clark) (2010)

An archived photograph of the Filipino-American war as shown in John Gianvito's Vapor Trail (Clark) Aftermath by Francis Joseph A. Cruz ...