This is Engelbert Rafferty’s return to Film Police Reviews! He writes about Amanda Nell Eu’s directorial debut, ‘Tiger Stripes’. The film is also the recipient
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Poor Things (2023) review: Unfolding the catharsis in self-discovery, pleasure, and choice
Poor Things (2023) is the official opening film of QCinema 2023.
QCinema Launches Elevated Documentary Section
For its 11th edition, QCinema introduces QCDox, the official documentary program of the QCinema International Film Festival. Though the festival has exhibited documentaries before, QCDox
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This ‘Joyland’ review examines the parallels of the characters living in a [societal] box
Joyland, as shown in the film, is an amusement park located in Lahore, Pakistan. It seems that anything is possible inside Joyland. The rides are
Episode 143 – QCinema Previews
It’s time for some QCinema Reviews! John, Jim and Princess talk about two films that will be screening in the upcoming QCinema film festival. Notes:
QCinema 2021, a hybrid film festival from November 26 to December 6
QCinema has outdone us all again. With the pandemic far from over and cinemas still closed, QCinema International Film Festival jump cuts the challenges and proceeds again
Episode 124: QCinema Pre-festival Impressions
QCinema is coming back by the end of the month! Tristan, John, and guests Armando Dela Cruz and Jason Tan Liwag discuss what they expect
Get Ready because MIDNIGHT IN A PERFECT WORLD is streaming WORLDWIDE on UPSTREAM this Jan.29
Dodo Dayao’s second feature film ‘Midnight in a Perfect World’ is every bit seamless, sexy, and nightmarish a horror film should be, you’d need to
QCinema launches A New Filmscape: a hybrid film festival from November 27 to December 6
QCinema International Film Festival stages a hybrid festival with an edgy line-up for its special edition for 2020. Today officially marks the first year since
QCinema Best Picture “Cleaners” to have UP screenings
Fresh from its win at last year’s QCinema International Film Festival, Cleaners is set to be shown on March at two campuses of the University of the
These are the three documentaries to screen in QCinema 2019
QCinema is home to some of the finest independent-produced films in the country. They’ve just announced the three documentary films to receive post-production grant of
‘Oda sa Wala’: the morbid fragrance of emptiness
An unsettling portrait of death—of the body, and more so of the spirit.
Episode 12 – QCinema 2018 (with Oggs Cruz)
Rappler film critic Oggs Cruz joins the gang as they talk about the recently concluded QCinema International Film Festival. Young lovers, old lovers, basketball players,
QCinema 2018 gives homage to french cinema classics
[Editor’s note: This is a press release from QCinema.] The QCinema International Film Festival pays tribute to French cinema’s richness by highlighting classic titles for
QCinema 2018 unleashes Asian Next Wave competition entries
[Editor’s note: This is a press release from QCinema] A new breed of Asian filmmakers emerges in the third edition of the Asian Next Wave
Neomanila: Earned Redeption Failure
Warning: Full spoilers below. Neomanila has the uncanny ability to disorient. The film initially posits that in the underbellies of Manila, its inhabitants learn how
QCinema fetes five years with strong roster of films
The Quezon City International Film Festival (QCinema) 2017 opens with a major splash with the advance Philippine premiere of “Loving Vincent” and digital comeback of
Cinema One Originals, QCinema reveal 2016 lineup
Major local indie film festivals Cinema One Originals and QCinema, via their respective Facebook pages, both announced on Wednesday their lineups of competing films for
Sid Lucero on growth, falling in love, and being Francis Ford Coppola’s son
In 1979, Apocalypse Now, hailed as one of the greatest movies of all time, premiered in Hollywood amid much controversy. Shot on location in Baler,
6 tips on surviving the ‘film festival’ season
As if Cinemalaya wasn’t enough… It’s been a long way down the road since Alexis Tioseco’s Wishful Thinking for Philippine Cinema in which he relays what
A compendium of QCinema 2015’s international line-up
QCinema 2015 Festival Director, Ed Lejano, once said that “diversity” was one of the key features they were looking for in selecting the films for this
QCinema 2015 announces 8 full-length films in competition
On its third year, QCinema International Film Festival, the official film festival of Quezon City, the City of Stars, unveils its line-up of eight locally-produced