The poor dozers Noel Vera Talk about pointless--why bring the overblown, overextended musical remake of a fairly satisfying Mel Brooks comedy to Manila screens...
A little article I wrote for Senses of Cinema on Kurosawa Kyoshi's film: http://tinyurl.com/hvt2e Excerpt Looking at Kurosawa Kiyoshi's "Kairo" (Pulse, 2001)...
Guerilla warfare Noel Vera Isao Takahata's "Pom Poko" (The Raccoon War, 1994) starts out with a little song where children call on the tanuki (Japanese raccoon...
Dumdumland Noel Vera It's hard to guess what kind of thinking went into the making of this particular car crash. "We'll take Richard Price's novel and turn it...
Snakes gone wild Noel Vera It's not exactly the kind of motion picture meant to extend or develop the potentialities of cinema as a medium of artistic ...
Lost movie Noel Vera "The Lost City" represents sixteen years of director-producer- composer-lead actor Andy Garcia's life, devoted to the attempt to bring the...
Shack attack Noel Vera Gil Kenan's "Monster House" is amusing enough, a mix of Steven Spielberg suburbia, Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window," the "Evil Dead"...
Snicker man Noel Vera It's difficult to understand why anyone thought a remake of "The Wicker Man"--the classic thriller about a police officer who lands on a...
Crud Noel Vera Mark Neveldin and Brian Taylor's "Crank" has a premise so dumb it's brilliant, or could have been brilliant: a man named Chev Chelios (Jason...
Better than "Brokeback" Noel Vera Auraeus Solito's "Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros" (The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, 2005), the first Filipino film to ...
Stumble Noel Vera Anne Fletcher's "Step Up" (2006) is anything but--a clichéd, unimaginative retelling of a story as old as time, or at least as old as boiled...
Lino Brocka's Insiang (1976) <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077740/> --his masterpiece, in my opinion--is scheduled to screen at The New York Film Festival...
Failure to launch Noel Vera "Flyboys" is handsomely produced and actually looks as if the filmmakers had read a page or two of history--the Lafayette ...
Evolution in action Noel Vera I believe the worst charge one can level at Martin Scorsese for what he's done in his latest film "The Departed" (2006) is that...
The New York Times' film critic Dave Kehr on Manila By Night (Ishmael Bernal, 1980) and Ina, Kapatid, Anak (Mother, Sister, Daughter, Lino Brocka, 1979) ...
Plod by Noel Vera Jim Sonzero's "Pulse" (2006) has anything but. Like a number of recent horror remakes--"The Ring," "Dark Water," "The Wicker Man," "The...
The Texas chainsaw misery Noel Vera Jonathan Liebesman's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" is in a very real sense a pain in the butt. As the...
Closing down my AOL blog. It'll still be here, but there won't be any more new posts. Or if there are new posts, they'll be links to this blog: Critic After...
This is not a political film Noel Vera "This is not a political film." That was the mantra Oliver Stone reportedly repeated to himself while making his latest ...
An act of misdirection Noel Vera Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige"--an adaptation of the novel by Christopher Priest--has a lovely premise at the heart of it...
Cinemanila 2006 Noel Vera Once again, ladies and folks, the single most important event to hit Metro Manila this year… Michel Gondry's "La Science des...
A prophet in his own land Noel Vera Lav Diaz's "Heremias" (2006) is 540 minutes long, an hour shy of the length of "Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino"...
[Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting] <http://photobucket.com/> Bona (Lino Brocka, 1980) <http://www.criticine.com/review_article.php?id=17> Excerpt: Lino...
The most frightening film of the year Noel Vera Davis Guggenheim's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" has the force of a high tide, pulling imperceptibly yet...
Hit the deck! Noel Vera I have to confess, I'm not a big fan of Christmas. No, let me be more frank: I loathe Christmas. Absolutely hate it. The pressure to ...
Sleep in heavenly peace Noel Vera Catherine Hardwicke's "The Nativity Story" (2006) sad to say, feels like a stillborn effort; you want to poke at it with a...
Amado Lacuesta film retrospective <http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2007/01/amado-lacuesta-film-retrosp\ ective.html> Excerpt: In the wake of all the deaths...
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