7 years since Gene Roddenberry’s “Star Trek” began going where no sci-fi franchise has boldly gone before. With the release of “Into Darkness,” director JJ Abrams returns to the series he helped revive in 2009.
In a recent article, we cited the movies of Paraluman, and were pleased to get unusually good feedback from our readers who wanted to know more about the classic beauty and movie star, who was partnered by some of the top male leads of the ’40s and ’50s, including Rogelio dela Rosa and Fernando Poe Sr. Happy to oblige:
The most adorable character on the New York stage this season isn’t a freckle-faced orphan, but a widowed septuagenarian, Carrie Watts, the lead character of Horton Foote’s “The Trip to Bountiful,” now showing at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
Talk about an all-star cast, “The Big Wedding” topbills a baker’s dozen of popular screen luminaries, including the Robert De Niro, the Diane Keaton, Katherine Heigl, Susan Sarandon, Amanda Seyfried, Robin Williams—and then some! It’s a dream stellar team meant to appeal to a wide age range of viewers, the better to get the profitable family crowd watching—and laughing.
It’s a much-delayed “homecoming” for the late National Artist for Film Lino Brocka in this resort city in the French Riviera, which once embraced him as one of its most celebrated finds.
Now, for the harder part. After capturing the world’s attention, the next goal of Filipino filmmakers should be to secure international distribution, said actor Joel Torre, who is part of the contingent of Erik Matti’s “On the Job,” an entry in the Directors’ Fortnight at the ongoing 66th Cannes International Film Festival in France.
LOS ANGELES—Ken Jeong is back naked in “The Hangover Part III.” He claimed that this time it was not his idea. “In the first movie, that was my idea,” Ken said of the scene in which he jumps buck naked from a car trunk, landing right in front of Bradley Cooper. “I think Todd Phillips [...]
It’s a fitting “homecoming” for the late National Artist for Film Lino Brocka in this resort city south of France.
Poor Gwyneth Paltrow. There she was, minding her own business, occasionally starring in films like “Iron Man 3” while living the good life with her husband and children. Then, all of a sudden, People magazine chose her as its most beautiful woman of the world for 2013—and a flurry of dissenting opinions hit the fan!
Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” was to open the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, with critics divided on whether it amounts to an inspired take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic or a cinematic flop.
Actor Joel Torre, lead star of Erik Matti’s “On the Job,” will attend Wednesday’s opening of the prestigious Cannes film festival in France.
A film that weaves together stories of the anguish and desperation of American and Filipino soldiers during the notorious Bataan Death March could have been shot on location in a large-scale production.
