Pain – whether physical or emotional – is unpleasant, and many of us understandably spend our entire lives trying to avoid it. Lynlyn (Julia Barretto)
Tag: Jason Paul Laxamana
Cine Lokal Opens This Year With “Ang Taba Ko Kasi”
Cine Lokal opens this year with laughter and love with Ang Taba Ko Kasi, a 2016 entry to CineFilipino Film Festival starting January 12 in select
And He Too Was 2cool 2 Be 4gotten
By now, thousands of people may already have seen 2 Cool 2 Be Forgotten, a gay coming of age story set in the aftermath of
Jason Paul Laxamana on filmmaking in the Philippines
The director of The Third Party, the newest Star Cinema offering starring Angel Locsin, Sam Milby, and Zanjoe Marudo, has agreed to do a sit-down with
‘Mercury Is Mine’ gets extended screenings at Ayala Cinemas
Jason Paul Laxamana’s Cinemalaya award-winning film, Mercury Is Mine, is getting a handful of extended screenings in select theaters at Ayala Malls. I’ve written a review
Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival 2016 winners
The awards night of the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival wrapped last night, and we’ve got the full list of winners. Concluding its twelfth year run,
Mercury Is Mine
The defining trait of Jason Paul Laxamana’s Mercury Is Mine is its forthright craziness. Never has madness been beckoned with this much vigor; it’s reckless,
Full-bodied problems blow up in ‘Ang Taba Ko Kasi’ trailer
[inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”@FilmPoliceRevs” suffix=”#AngTabaKoKasi”]The trailer for ‘Ang Taba Ko Kasi’ has just been launched[/inlinetweet] on its Facebook page, and I can already sense the collective
Jason Paul Laxamana on his film Magkakabaung, Hanoi, and local cinema
Babagwa (eng title. The Spider’s Lair) is a modest triumph for Jason Paul Laxamana, a marked leap from his debut feature Astro Mayabang. But both
Five on five—MMFF 2014 New Wave entries
Aside from the primary—essentially mainstream—line-up of films, the annual Metro Manila Film Festival has also committed to an “indie” section called New Wave, which