While the 2025 live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon remains faithful to the original 2010 animated film, I think it is best viewed without comparing it with the animated film, or even without knowledge of the latter. Don’t get me wrong; the live-action film is grand in scale and execution, with breathtaking flyingContinue reading “Hiccup and Toothless Soar High”
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Haunted Mansion Succeeds Despite Its Flaws
Haunted Mansion (a 2015 Filipino horror movie currently streaming on Netflix) successfully delivers the scares as it weaves an old and not so interesting study on teenagers and their hormones with a more interesting back story of the mansion involving two upper class sisters and a commoner. Ella (Janella Salvador) has a third eye andContinue reading “Haunted Mansion Succeeds Despite Its Flaws”
Everything About Her: Wounded Souls Get Second Chances
Everything About Her (a 2016 Filipino film currently streaming on Netflix) is about second chances and forgiveness, with a life-threatening illness triggering the resolve to correct past mistakes, make amends, and forgive. It sounds heavy but thankfully, the movie presents it in a light drama infused with comedy, providing the actors enough space to workContinue reading “Everything About Her: Wounded Souls Get Second Chances”
Pamilya Ordinaryo is No Ordinary Film
Pamilya Ordinaryo (a 2016 Filipino film streaming as Ordinary People on Netflix) is an honest, in your face, uncompromising look at the lives of street children. We see them everyday; so we may have become so used to them being part of the streets. The film, therefore, pushes us to at least acknowledge that theyContinue reading “Pamilya Ordinaryo is No Ordinary Film”
The Boy Foretold by the Stars: A Charming Tale of Love
The Boy Foretold by the Stars presents a brave yet sweet story about two high school boys finding love in and falling in love with each other as they let their belief in fate and destiny dictate their judgment and courses of action. Dominic (Adrian Lindayag) is a gay student in an exclusive school forContinue reading “The Boy Foretold by the Stars: A Charming Tale of Love”
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