Just Before Nightfall (1971)

Just Before Nightfall (Claude Chabrol, 1971) French Title: Juste avant la nuit It was exactly like a dream, an erotic one. Advertising execu...

Donsol (2006)

Donsol (Adolfo Alix Jr., 2006) Daniel (Sid Lucero) is a B.I.O. or butanding (whale sharks) interaction officer. Every year, the shores of th...

Happy Feet (2006)

Happy Feet (George Miller, 2006) Penguins, those tuxedo-ed flightless birds of the Antarctic, are adorably cute. Children know this, which i...

A Good Year (2006)

A Good Year (Ridley Scott, 2006) If there was one adjective to describe the viewing experience that was Ridley Scott's A Good Year , it ...

Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

Akeelah and the Bee (Doug Atchison, 2006) Eleven-year old Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer) has a gift for words. It's probably genetic: he...

Ang Pamana (2006)

Ang Pamana (Romeo Candido, 2006) English Title: The Inheritance Canadian-Filipino director Romeo Candido uses Filipino folkloric monsters to...

California Split (1974)

California Split (Robert Altman, 1974) Robert Altman's hardly seen masterpiece California Split is a film about gambling; the same way ...