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Remember Me

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Extraordinary Measures

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The Red Shoes

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The Book of Eli

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When in Rome

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Movie Review for Remember Me

A Bid for Largeness

by Philbert Ortiz Dy
posted on Monday, March 15, 2010 in Movie Reviews
A Bid for Largeness

Here is the big secret of modern love stories: they aren’t very epic. Modern relationships tend not to function on big moments, the splashy set pieces of romantic comedies that usually involve some giant physical act of love. When couples have fights or break up, their getting back together isn’t predicated on one of them hiring a marching band or making a speech before the other gets on a plane. People get into and out of relationships without the world necessarily ending. In real life, romance is only part of the larger equation, and things like family and self-actualization can and often do take precedence over relationships. The strength of modern love stories stems from the intimacy they afford, the unquantifiable but familiar chemistry that grows between two people as they simply get woven into a single fabric. Remember Me appears to be aware of this, for the most part, building a love story between two people without making it seem like it’s the most important thing in the world.

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Movie Review for Green Zone

Editorial Policy

by Philbert Ortiz Dy
posted on Monday, March 15, 2010 in Movie Reviews
Editorial Policy

If anything, this year’s Academy Award best picture winner The Hurt Locker proved that movies about the war in Iraq didn’t have to be about politics. The war over whose politics are right, played out on TV screens by the punditocracy, is generally less important than the war on the ground, where lives are being lost everyday, and all sorts of grand tragedies and ironies are constantly being played out. And when The Green Zone stays on the ground, it really works. The strange world that’s been built in the wake of the invasion is brought to life, it excesses and deficiencies made clear and palpable, and all the more immediate.

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Movie Review for Ben and Sam

A Serious Film

by Philbert Ortiz Dy
posted on Friday, March 12, 2010 in Movie Reviews
A Serious Film

The titular characters of Ben and Sam are film students, and we occasionally join them in one of their film classes. There, they watch films and have long-winded discussions about some vague idea of cinematic truth. One of the films that they watch is Fidel. Their teacher introduces it by pretty much holding it up as an example of responsible cinema, bringing attention to an issue that’s generally ignore. “I don’t want to catch anyone sleeping,” she warns the class, before telling them that she’s not really worried about that. “It’s not a sleeper.”

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Movie Review for Parisukat

Losing the Bigger Picture

by Philbert Ortiz Dy
posted on Friday, March 12, 2010 in Movie Reviews
Losing the Bigger Picture

Parisukat is told in fragments, each of the main characters given their own flashback, each one revealing a little more about the central event of the film. It’s actually kind of a clever conceit, but the movie can’t sustain for its meager runtime. In bursts, Parisukat actually has some interesting ideas, but too much of it is badly shot filler. Taken as a whole, Parisukat just doesn’t work out.

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Diaz, Marsden Face a Moral Dilemma in 'The Box'

posted on Friday, March 12, 2010 in Movies
Diaz, Marsden Face a Moral Dilemma in 'The Box'

James Marsden (“The X-Men” series) and Cameron Diaz (“The Holiday”) star as husband and wife who are faced with a moral dilemma, in Warner Bros.’ new mystery thriller “The Box.” Directed by Richard Kelly (the cult classic “Donnie Darko”), “The Box” opens exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas (Glorietta 4, Greenbelt 3 & Trinoma) this week.

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DreamWorks Animation Presents 'How To Train Your Dragon'

posted on Friday, March 12, 2010 in Movies
DreamWorks Animation Presents 'How To Train Your Dragon'

From the studio that brought you “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda” comes “How To Train Your Dragon” -- an adventure comedy set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, based on the book by Cressida Cowell.

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Gary Oldman, Ray Stevenson Out for Blood in 'The Book of Eli'

posted on Friday, March 12, 2010 in Movies
Gary Oldman, Ray Stevenson Out for Blood in 'The Book of Eli'

Two screen baddies – Gary Oldman (“The Dark Knight”) and Ray Stevenson (“Punisher: War Zone”) – gang up on Denzel Washington in Columbia Pictures’ post-apocalyptic action-adventure “The Book of Eli.”

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Movie Review for Extraordinary Measures

Uninspired by a True Story

by Philbert Ortiz Dy
posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 in Movie Reviews
Uninspired by a True Story

One cannot help but mention Lorenzo’s Oil when discussing Extraordinary Measures. Both films are based on true stories of parents of kids with terminal illness who refuse to accept the incurability of the disease and go to incredible lengths to find a cure for their children. It makes for a fascinating case study, with two parallel true stories becoming two parallel films. But while the truth remains equal, the movies are decidedly different beings. Extraordinary Measures is stuck in convention, lacking the tenacity and strength of the earlier film.

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Movie Review for The Red Shoes

The Other Way

by Philbert Ortiz Dy
posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 in Movie Reviews
The Other Way

If anything, one has to admire The Red Shoes for going further than most local films in building a theme. Throughout the entire picture, the audience will be regaled with motifs and recurring lines and narrative parallels that all add up to a much larger milieu. However, the film sometimes lapses into redundancy and cheap gimmickry in pursuit of its theme, leaving plot and drama by the wayside. Though there are far more great ideas in The Red Shoes than in your average big studio drama, it still isn’t quite the film it imagines itself to be.

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Movie Review for Bakal Boys

Diving In

by Philbert Ortiz Dy
posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 in Movie Reviews
Diving In

The best bits of Bakal Boys only have children in them. These boys, all first-time actors and real life scrap metal divers, have an unrelenting truthfulness to their performances that quickly blur the line between reality and fiction. It is these remarkable young lives that make Bakal Boys such a notable film. The film matches their sincerity with its own honesty and general restraint, avoiding all the pitfalls that plague many other films that depict poverty.

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Movies Opening This Week
Mar 17
The Lovely Bones
Mar 17
When in Rome
Mar 17
The Book of Eli
Next Attraction
Mar 24
Romeo at Juliet
Mar 26
How to Train Your Dragon
Apr 2
Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps
Apr 3
Possession
Apr 3
Clash of the Titans
Apr 3
The Bounty Hunter
Apr 9
Date Night
Apr 14
Shutter Island
Apr 14
Takers
Apr 21
Toy Story 1 & 2 (3D)
U.S. Box Office - Feb 26-28
1. Alice in Wonderland $116.3 million
2. Brooklyn's Finest $13.5 million
3. Shutter Island $13.3 million
4. Cop Out $9.1 million
5. Avatar $7.7 million
6. The Crazies $7 million
7. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief $5.1 million
8. Valentine's Day $4.3 million
9. Crazy Heart $3.4 million
10. Dear John $2.9 million
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