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2012: The Not Too Serious Apocalypse?
By Reymundo Salao
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Most of Roland Emmerich’s movies have been mostly reminiscent of the 70’s disaster movies like The Towering Inferno or Poseidon Adventure. These disaster movies are essentially survival horror, wherein we are introduced to main characters that we are supposed to root for and follow as they try to survive a peril or perils that could kill them. This movie more or less combines all of it for something whi… Continue

The ECHO: A Ghost Story
By Reymundo Salao

The ECHO is the Hollywood remake of the Filipino horror movie from director Yam Laranas entitled “Sigaw” which is also released in the international market with the similar title “The Echo” The story begins when a young ex-con comes home to the apartment where her mother who passed away, lived. He curiously tries to find out what happened to… Continue

GOOD SCI-FI STORYLINE; but definitely not unforgettable
By Reymundo Salao

Surrogates is a sci-fi movie about a future where every human being can connect their bodies into machines & they instantly live a different life through their robotic human-looking surrogates. Anybody can just stay home all day while they are connected online with their surrogates that can just easily live outside in the real world. But when a surrogate is killed along with its user, FBI agent Greer unravels a conspi… Continue

In remembrance and in commemoration of Philippine hero, Ninoy Aquino's Death Anniversary (August 21), Unitel Productions with the Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Foundation (BSAF) presents a docu-drama entitled "The Last Journey of Ninoy" which details the last few days of the former senator, as he decides to take the dangerous and courageous return to the Philippines which led to a death which was the spark that began the People Power Revolution.

The film was originally slated to premiere on August 4, b… Continue

So Bryan Singer is remaking EXCALIBUR

But waitaminute... isn't Singer doing a Battlestar Galactica Remake as well? In the midst of the success of the NEW Battlestar Galactica series which has relaunched and has spawned a new horde of followers, Singer wants to do the same stunt as he did in the Superman genre? ...satisfying his devotion for nostalgia, taking a potential fictional material, and instead of making something new with such material, he makes an homage of the old stuff he used to lov… Continue