The premiere of a new movie from Studio Ghibli is always an event over here at film, eyeballs, brain, and if it's by Hayao Miyazaki, I line up for over an hour to catch it on the big screen. (I ...Read More
Park Chan-Wook's new film, Thirst (Bakjwi), is a bloody mess. Quite literally: blood spills on floors, trickles from eyes, spurts from necks, dribbles from mouths, and gushes out of flutes; it gets quaffed, sucked out, licked off, vomited, refrigerated, and ...Read More
For a movie with a title like Hubad (Tagalog for "naked"), the promise of heavy breathing and unfettered eros just isn't quite fulfilled. Oh, there's a seething hotbed, all right, but one seething with frustration and repression and lack of ...Read More
I missed Geo's presentation on The Resistance of Philippine Cinema when he swung through town last month (I didn't know one had to RSVP!), but here, I guess, is the next best thing: a free screening each of Auraeus Solito's ...Read More
There's one flat-out great sequence in Michael Mann's new film, Public Enemies, the kind that makes you wish you were watching another movie. It's a spectacular (and poorly thought-out) shoot-out in a lodge in the Wisconsin woods where John Dillinger ...Read More