By TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat.com One of the themes of the movies screened at this year’s French Film Festival, which opened last June 3 at the Shangri-la Cineplex, is migration and how its perils affect human lives. One such movie is the heartbreaking yet poignant Philippe Lioret’s full-length “Welcome,” which won big in last…
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Slideshow: ‘Project Runaway’ Highlights Protest Fashion
“Project Runaway” Protest Fashion
The Lows of Brillante Mendoza’s Lola
By TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat.com At the recent 15th French Film Festival screened at the Shangri-la Cineplex, Brillante Mendoza’s award-wining full-length movie ‘Lola’ (grandma) was one of the highlights. This is Mendoza’s obra after his “Kinatay”, which earned him a Cannes’ best director award. Speaking in front of an audience who lined up for…
Sex and the City 2, Looking Beyond the Glitz and the Glamour
By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com I know there are a lot of negative reviews about Sex and the City 2 out there but here’s one that isn’t. Despite what other people say about SATC not having a plot, I think otherwise. When I entered the theater, I was prepared to see nothing but extravagance, extravagance, extravagance!…
On Its Second Installment, Iron Man Privatizes World Peace
By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com If there’s one movie you should watch this summer, it’s Iron Man 2 directed by Jon Favreau (who ironically plays Happy Hogan in the movie). After the success of the first movie (also directed by Favreau), audiences gamely waited for the sequel. And if the ticket lines are any indication, Iron…
Gabriela Highlights Project RunAway: The Election Season Collection
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The fashion show, also a satirical commentary, serves as platform — literally and figuratively — for the people’s issues.
Twisted 8 ½: The History of Human Technology
By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com If in the aftermath of an apocalypse, the world has been reborn and a group of new citizens wants to find out what kind of technology pre-apocalypse humans lived on, I daresay that Jessica Zafra’s latest Twisted installment, Twisted 8 ½, would be able to provide an accurate albeit slightly sardonic…
Gabriela Reveals Election Season Collection in Satirical Fashion Show
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
These “bold yet wearable” creations mirror a host of social issues and concerns ranging from poverty, press freedom, good governance, human rights, social justice, and national patrimony.
Giving Classics Their Well-Deserved Twist
By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com Can you imagine reading about zombies and all sorts of sea monsters in the middle of a Jane Austen novel? Or do you expect to read about Animal (the talking ones) rights and other political brouhaha on the journey to Emerald City? Truly, a writer’s imagination knows no limits. Nothing is…
Clash of the Titans
By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com Step aside, Hercules. There’s a new demigod in town. In Clash of the Titans (2010), Perseus—son of Zeus—steps up to the plate to defeat the mighty Kraken. To do that, he must go to Medusa’s lair, chop her head off and return to Argos before Princess Andromeda meets her doom. Sounds…
Return to Wonderland
By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com When news first broke out of another adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland hitting the big screen, everybody was excited. But when news of Tim Burton taking the director’s chair spread, there were mixed reactions. Fans of The Nightmare before Christmas and Sweeney Todd were elated at it, of course,…