When we watch something on Netflix, one thing that stands out is the lighting. When a character appears on screen, the lighting makes them completely visible to us. We can see every facial expression and detail. The brilliant, colorful, and organic craftsmanship of previous films is being replaced by soft and low-contrast lighting that makes […]
Let us backtrack a little bit and imagine life in 2006. What was going on in your life back then? Chances are you were singing your heart out to Beyonce’s ‘Irreplaceable’ or maybe to Neyo’s ‘So Sick.’ Or perhaps you were wishing to live a double life like Miley Ray Stewart a.k.a. Hannah Montana. How […]
In “Joker: Folie à Deux,” the highly anticipated sequel to the Academy Award-winning “Joker,” Lady Gaga plays Harley Quinn. “I got to see the original ‘Joker’ before it ever came out,” says Lady Gaga in a new Harley Quinn-focused featurette. “It was a very special experience. I had never seen a world created like that […]
It’s 2023! It’s time to assess our own perceptions of life. No matter how old we are, it’s an important thing to do if you want to lead a meaningful life and be a better person. And most of the time, we need different sources of inspiration to do so. Movies, without a doubt, can […]
In a perfect world, our society has equal access to information curated only by independent, tenacious, reliable, and responsible journalists, which help us make decisions and move forward as a society. In a perfect world, these unbiased information equip us with what we need to truly understand and empathize with those who suffer, to hold […]
2022 has brought a lot of book transformations into shows and movies. Some adaptations were everything we wanted and more while some did not give what needed to be given. Whether you’re a fan of adaptations or not, it may be interesting to see how your favorite books get translated for the screen. Book to […]
Regal films not only popularized horror films in the 80s. In many ways, the Mother Lily-led production giant helped mold Philippine cinema to how we know it today by innovating the way that horror movies are presented. These classic examples of Regal Films horror flicks are some of the most iconic and well-loved. Shake, Rattle, […]
Decades before The Bangles and the Go-Gos of the 80s, there was Fanny, an iconic all-female rock band you’ve probably never heard of, and how they took the early 70s by storm. Fanny—composed of Filipino-American siblings June (guitar, vocals) and Jean Millington (bass, vocals) Alice de Buhr (drums, vocals), Nickey Barclay (keyboards), Patti Quatro (guitar, […]
From an unavoidable societal collapse, to the apocalypse, to the domination of our machine overlords, there have been plenty of origins for a dystopian universe in cinema. Providing a look at the world after a calamity or disaster, there’s just something alluring (and haunting) about seeing the best and worst of humanity deal with a […]