As a starmaking vehicle, “Must Be … Love” succeeds in shining up the separate and joint careers of its young leads, Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla. Their new love team is now the hottest TV-film ticket in town, especially with the tweens and teens who dominate the ranks of local moviegoers.
“At some point, you’ll feel the thirst to veer away from safe roles and move on to the next level,” said actress Bea Alonzo.
For the most part of her acting career, Angel Aquino has taken on support roles. Now, portraying the title role in Star Cinema and Skylight Films’ coming psychological horror flick, “Amorosa: The Revenge,” Angel faces a different challenge—and she’s daunted. “This is definitely my biggest break in the industry,” Angel told the Inquirer at [...]
Asserting television’s dominance on the entertainment industry, the country’s top three TV networks have entries in the 38th Metro Manila Film Festival which opens on Dec. 25.
The cautionary tale John-D Lazatin’s “A Mother’s Story” tells is as relevant as the stories we read in the newspapers these days. After all, more than a million Filipinos leave the country every year to seek greener pastures abroad—legally or otherwise. Even more alarmingly, the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) sector now comprises 11 percent of the whole Filipino population! —What does that say about our government’s (in)ability to provide for its people?
The network war again made its presence felt in the Metro Manila Film Festival – specifically, in the first-day box-office results on Christmas Day. The film companies of ABS-CBN (Star Cinema) and GMA 7 (GMA Films) are still vying for first place at press time. Star Cinema/M-Zet/APT/OctoArts’ “Enteng ng Ina Mo” emerged on top, with [...]
“Parang aso’t pusa” is how director Soxie Topacio describes Melai Cantiveros and Jason Francisco while on the set of the comedy flick “The Adventures of Pureza: Queen of Riles.” Popularly known as the love team “Melason” (having met as contestants in the reality show “Pinoy Big Brother”), Melai and Jason reportedly fought at the slightest [...]
Talk about a movie with a twist, Sam Milby and KC Concepcion’s current starrer, “Forever and a Day,” starts out as a breezy rom-com with an “extreme adventure sports” look and feel to it—but ends up as “medical tragedy” tale with KC confronting nothing less daunting than the dreaded Big “C” itself. Alas, despite the [...]
Their closeness placed actors KC Concepcion and Sam Milby at a disadvantage when they first began filming “Forever and a Day,” according to director Cathy Garcia-Molina. “They’re such good friends that they can’t seem to look at each other as lovers,” Molina told entertainment writers recently. “The first shooting days were tough—puro chikahan, kulitan. It [...]
“So much has been written about Star Cinema’s “In the Name of Love” that seems to suggest that it’s only Aga Muhlach’s movie. I beg to disagree: The movie belongs to Aga and Angel Locsin,” says Ester Daguman, a bank employee: “Once again, Aga proves he is the best actor of his generation. As for [...]
