Quite frankly, I have never heard of British spy action comic book Kingsman:The Secret Service created by Kickass writer Mark Millar before I learned that it was going to be adapted into a movie. When I saw the trailer, I was immediately intrigued by the concept of a group of well mannered (and impeccably dressed)… Read More Kingsman: The Secret Service Movie Review
Third time’s the charmed for director Andoy Ranay’s collaboration with love team Nadine Lustre and James Reid. In yet aother wattpad inspired film, this team finally managed to find the perfect balance of romance, drama, and surrealism to end up with a movie that is relateable and realistic, thanks to author Marcelino Santos III, who… Read More Para sa Hopeless Romantic: Movie Review
I’m a big fan of Kim Chiu. I’ve seen all of her movies and watched all of her soaps, except for Past Tense. I did not quite connect to the plot as I did her other works. After I watched it, I felt like I was right in the first place. Her third movie paired up… Read More Past Tense: Movie Review
I was very excited when I learned that James Dashner’s The Maze Runner trilogy was going to get the film treatment, more so when I discovered that they were casting some of my favorite young actors like Dylan O’Brien (Teen Wolf), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Game of Thrones, Phineas and Ferb) and Kaya Scodelario (Skins UK, Now… Read More The Maze Runner: Movie Review
I must admit that when I heard that the studios were breaking down Mockingjay, the final installment in the Hunger Games trilogy into two movies, I was a bit skeptical as to how it was going to be done. Mockingjay was not longer than Hunger Games and Catching Fire, and did not have that much… Read More Mockingjay Part 1: Movie Review
I stumbled across this title from a website about low profile horror movies and immediately hunted down a copy. The poster, for one looked promising. Obviously, I was successful so I was able to check out this American remake of a Thai horror comedy called 13 Beloved. Rest assured, there’s nothing comedic about 13 Sins, which… Read More 13 Sins: Movie Review
Michael Bay pretty much screwed himself when he made such great Transformers movies and finishing the trilogy with such a bang in 2011. Now that he has returned to the franchise to set off a fresh saga a la George Lucas in Star Wars, people are using the bar he set for himself to compare… Read More Transformers: Age of Extinction Movie Review
In the same year director/screenwriter Joss Whedon released Marvel’s The Avengers, effectively cementing him as one of the best action/adventure filmmakers of all time (in my opinion, anyways), he also directed an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and shot it for 12 days in his home in Santa Monica. The plot basically follows… Read More Much Ado About Nothing (2012): Movie Review
Had I not checked what was showing on the cinemas the other day, I might never have found out about Snowpiercer, a South Korean production starring Captain America himself, Chris Evans, along with other Hollywood A-listers Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Ed Harris and Jamie Bell. Had I missed it, it would have been a great… Read More Snowpiercer: Movie Review
After 16 years of service as a negative asset manage at Life Magazine, 42-year old Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller), who has spent most of his life on the sidelines daydreaming, finds that the negative for the last print issue’s cover by elusive photojournalist Sean O’ Connel (Sean Penn) is missing. With his job on the… Read More The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Movie Review
