Gear up for an adventure as Chris Hemsworth is coming to Manila on June 5 for the premiere of his Netflix Film, Extraction 2. In the video posted on Netflix Philippines’ Youtube channel, Hemsworth shared the exciting news that he’ll be seeing his Filipino fans soon. Director Sam Hargrave will join Hemsworth for the Asia-Pacific…
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Repertory’s ‘Carousel’: A bold and brave move on a classic
This staging is anything but traditional – definitely not like the ‘Carousel’ our grandparents grew up with.
PasaJob: new beginnings at your fingertips
Philippine’s first referral-based job platform PasaJob aims to address unfilled job positions.
Drawing your path as a young Filipino artist
To thrive as an artist is not all colors and butterflies starting from portfolio-building.
Young Filipino artists you have to know about
Most parents would scold their children for making a ‘mess,’ but little did we know that fostering and nurturing this curiosity and creativity would soon give rise to the Filipino artists that we have now.
Mula sa Buwan’s #HulingLipad: Wounds Cut Anew
Raw, vivid and emotionally haunting—that was how I felt when I first saw Pat Valera and William Manzano’s Mula sa Buwan two years ago. This majestic Filipino Zarsuela was an adaptation of Edmund’s Rostand’s timeless piece, Cyrano de Bergerac but instead of 17th century France as its setting, the play brought us to Manila during the 1940s…
Peeking into ‘The Dressing Room’
Staging re-runs is equally challenging than staging original theatre productions. One works with the same material but newer elements have to be added to make it more powerful and visually stunning. Hence, a re-run isn’t just a re-play but a whole reimagination of the same story. Dulaang UP’s The Dressing Room might be a re-run, but…
Bagong Cristo
In a conservative country like the Philippines, tinkering with the image of Jesus Christ is usually taboo. We are all familiar with the divine narrative – the begotten son of God was sent to Earth to save the world from sin, the man spends his three decades on Earth teaching, and is later persecuted and…
One Light’s Out
It’s been more than three months since his light was put out. That one light that lit up one dim moment of my life. When I was in grade school, I barely had true friends. Most of my so-called friends then are just people I had to be with because of same advanced classes and…
Birdshot: More than a Parable on Innocence
WARNING: This analysis has a few spoilers. Filipinos face too much brutality that it feels as if we have already been desensitized by our society’s ills. But Birdshot reminds us of our true nature—one of innocence and idealism. Like the endangered Philippine eagle, this film is a rare breed of cinema that entertains yet opines,…
Fathers and Sons: A Dulaang UP Masterpiece of Two National Artists
What do you get when a Nick Joaquin classic gets translated by Virgilio Almario and Jose Lacaba, directed by Tony Mabesa, and brought to life by veteran thespians like Leo Rialp and Rody Vera? For the opening salvo of its 42nd season, Dulaang UP stages Fathers and Sons – a powerful work of not just…
Bite-Sized Reviews of Cinemalaya 2017 (Full Length Features)
Let’s be honest: many of us just watch movies to satisfy our visual and emotional appetite. Sadly, this affects the quality of the films we enjoy and choose to watch. Very few are trained to look beyond a film’s narrative and appreciate the figurative and the technique. As a result, many are unable to have…
Understanding the Angry Christ
Churchgoers would know that most images of Jesus Christ were of a loving man. While there are biblical accounts of Jesus Christ being angry, he was never pictured like that. That is the most baffling part of Angry Christ.
Gabe Bondoc: The Homecoming of a YouTube Sensation
One. Two. Seven. Nine. It took a while before I (as well as hundreds of other fans) got to hear that intro live in Manila straight from the man himself—Gabe Bondoc. It was long overdue, but damn was it worth the wait. We Match Unlike many of his over 300,000 subscribers, I didn’t find Gabe…
Sa Wakas: A Realistic Finale
A boy meets a girl. They go through a series of dilemmas and may even be separated for period of time, but they would still eventually end up together. This has been the typical formula for cliché love stories — no matter if the film is foreign or Filipino. But this is not the kind…
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