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BuyBust: Put a big gun in a pretty woman’s hands

Let’s begin with this: Anne Curtis, in the lead role of Nani Manigan, is no tweetums in this movie. BuyBust is gritty and it is violent and liberally laced with crude slang and cussing akin to a speech by President Duterte, but more...

Hereditary: A meditation on mental instability and private loss

Let me be the first to admit this: I saw the film four times. Yes, count them, four times. After watching it the first time, I felt very strongly I should watch it again with different people to see how they feel about it. My mother...

The Ant-Man and The Wasp: A big sequel that offers a tiny hint to Avengers 4

A popular and critical success. That’s the verdict of the website Rotten Tomatoes on the movie “The Ant-Man and The Wasp”, the latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With a Tomato Meter of 86% and an audience score of 80%, this is one...

Tomb Raider: Yamatai Kudasai

As a child, I spent one too many sleepless nights playing the Tomb Raider franchise in PS1. From the first one all the way to Tomb Raider Chronicles. At the advent of the PS2, I played The Angel of Darkness, Tomb Raider: Legend,...

Fifty Shades Freed: Finally free of this!

Three years ago, my best friend Mary Estrella called me on my cell, shrieking that the “Fifty Shades” trilogy of E.L. James will finally grace (or disgrace) the silver screen. She pulled all the stops to get me to agree to watch the...

Marvel opens new chapter with Black Panther

Fast paced and action packed, the latest installment to the Marvel Cinematic Universe certainly didn’t disappoint. According to the Disney’s official plot summary, the movie showed what happened to T’Challa after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, when T’Challa returned home...

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The King of the Seven Seas conquers the silver screen

Wow! That’s how I would describe “Aquaman,” latest cinematic addition to the DC Expanded Universe. The movie, which was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, was...

Mary Poppins is definitely back

Definitely enjoyable. This was the first thing that popped in my mind as I began watching Disney’s “Mary Poppins Returns” in a cinema in Trinoma,...

Rebooting a good thing: The Girl in the Spider’s Web

Having read Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and seen the films, I had high hopes for the Hollywood remake which did not disappoint. With David...

Marvel opens new chapter with Black Panther

Fast paced and action packed, the latest installment to the Marvel Cinematic Universe certainly didn’t disappoint. According to the Disney’s official plot summary, the movie...