MANILA, Philippines – Move over KathNiel and DonBelle, there’s a new love team that is set to sweep everyone off their feet. Their chemistry is impalpable, their looks undeniable (subject to debate for one-half of them), and their stories infinitely magical. That pairing, starting from their on-screen debut in Kita Kita, is the unexpected yet delightful Alessandra De Rossi and Empoy Marquez. Two versatile actors who do not fit the mold of usual romantic cliches and archetypes but who bring a refreshing new energy to the genre. The film is about Jojo (Marquez), a passionate Filipino artist whos ..read more

LONDON, United Kingdom – The fantasy world of Dungeons & Dragons came to a rainy London’s Leicester Square on Thursday, March 23 as actors Chris Pine, Rege-Jean Page, and Michelle Rodriguez premiered their new film imagining of the popular role-playing game. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves hits cinemas from next week hoping to entice a new generation of fans with the game which first came out in 1974. In the film, Pine’s character Edgin brings together a band of adventurers for a mission to retrieve a powerful relic. “I didn’t really know anything about it but my nephew is… a D ..read more

Lawrence of Arabia, Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible, Daredevil, The Matrix, Kill Bill, Police Story, Enter The Dragon – just a few of the films that John Wick: Chapter 4 lovingly pays homage to in its almost three-hour masterclass on visual kineticism and balletic gun-fu choreography. It doesn’t feel like the fourth film of a franchise; it’s an exclamation point, a high watermark not just for the stunt-focused, brute-force physicality style of action filmmaking, but for action cinema as a whole. To quote a recent Oscar winner, it is quite literally everything, everywhere, all at once. Keanu ..read more

MANILA, Philippines – Dolly de Leon has been cast in the upcoming action-comedy film Grand Death Lotto, directed by Bridesmaids filmmaker Paul Feig. According to a report by Deadline, Dolly is playing a supporting role with lead stars John Cena, Awkwafina, and Simu Liu. Also announced as supporting cast are Ayden Mayeri, Seann William Scott, and Donald Elise Watkins. The film, produced by Amazon Studios, is set in the near future where the people of California get a chance to win a multibillion-dollar jackpot in a grand lottery. The winner, however, must fight to survive until sundown because ..read more

MANILA, Philippines – Vanessa Hudgens is digging deeper into her Filipino heritage as she shoots a travel documentary in the Philippines. The Filipina-American actress will be shooting the project in Palawan and Manila in March, according to a report from Variety.  The film will focus on the relationship between Vanessa, her sister Stella, and their Filipino mother Gina. “I feel like ours is such a relatable story to so many women all over the world. The more that we can share, the more we can lift each other up,” she said in a statement. Paul Soriano, who founded the production company T ..read more

LOS ANGELES, USA – “Always humble, a hard worker, and very hard on himself, but very kind to others.” That was how Keanu Reeves was summed up by his John Wick: Chapter 4 costar, Hiroyuki Sanada. In their first film since 2013’s 47 Ronin, the two actors play old friends. Let’s just say that in the fourth installment of the hit franchise, Keanu’s eponymous hunted assassin, in order to finally gain his freedom from The High Table, battles a seemingly endless array of powerful adversaries in a world where old dalliances may be new foes. Chapter 4 may have a running time of almo ..read more

HONG KONG, – The screening of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, a British slasher film due to be released in Hong Kong this week, has been canceled for technical reasons, movie websites said on Tuesday, March 21. Moviematic, which had organized a screening of the film for Tuesday evening, reported the cancellation on its social media page. Several other websites and media also reported the cancellation of the screenings. The movie’s distributor in Hong Kong, VII Pillars Entertainment, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A ticket-booking link on its Facebook page brought up a m ..read more

One of the things that Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves does that blows my mind (and there are lots of things that blew my mind) is that it makes this whole project seem effortless. It makes a D&D movie feel fun, easy, and just plain delightful.  That it exists in a world filled with dour, self-serious high fantasy dominating the cultural imagination is already an accomplishment. GotG/HotD and Rings of Power quickly come to mind, with Witcher and a few other things hanging around too, as examples of high fantasy that might be fun to watch, but really lack a sense of fun ..read more

LOS ANGELES, USA – Helen Mirren, the Oscar winning actor for The Queen, wasn’t exactly a fan of superhero films, but then she saw Shazam! and felt a connection. “I loved the first “Shazam!” movie and it was one of the few superhero-ey type movies that I’d seen, and I loved it,” Mirren told Reuters. “It was funny, it was charming, but it had this real heart to it.” So when she was offered a role as the bold antagonist Hespera in the sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Mirren was more than happy to sign up. Shazam! Fury of the Gods, the 12th installment of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), arrives i ..read more

In the first Shazam film, Billy Batson, a 14-year-old boy who is unexpectedly granted superhero powers by a magical wizard, is faced with an enormous challenge. No, it isn’t Dr. Thaddeus Sivana, nor is it the ancient demonic creatures symbolizing the seven deadly sins. It’s his longing to find his biological mother and his struggle to fit in as an orphan. The zenith of the DC Universe’s very short list of strong emotional moments remains to be the scene where Billy finally finds his mother in a rundown apartment complex. In this understated and simple scene, Billy confronts the stark reality t ..read more