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...
Blood from stone Noel Vera Edward Zwick has always been the champion of a kind of earnest, well- meaning, rather flatfooted moviemaking that demands one's...
Besson's indigestibles Noel Vera Luc Besson's latest, "Arthur and the Invisibles" (2006) is roughly the equivalent of a McDonald's hamburger--not poisonous,...
Garble Noel Vera Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Babel" (2006) is excellently directed, I think; what I'm not sure of, even when the end credits have started...
Apocalypto: this time it's the Mayans Noel Vera I hope there isn't anyone out there who still clings desperately to the belief that The Passion of the Christ ...
Curse of the golden filmmaker Noel Vera I'm not sure if we can call Zhang Yimou a great filmmaker, but in the '80s and '90s he was certainly a force to be...
Love story Noel Vera John Fante was a relatively unsung poet of '30s Los Angeles, his novel "Ask the Dust"--featuring Fante's alter-ego, the ambitious and ...
Child's play Noel Vera There are a lot of things the matter with "Bridge to Terabithia," Gabor Csupo's adaptation of the Newberry Award-winning children's book...
Bowl movement Noel Vera David Bowers and Sam Fell's "Flushed Away" (2006) is surprisingly charming, an unholy marriage between Aardman Animations (responsible ...
A pair of queens Noel Vera In the wake of Helen Mirren's sweep of Hollywood's annual horse derbies for playing Her Royal Highness (a victory that was for the ...
Ugly duckling Noel Vera After more than two decades in development hell the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls" has finally come to the big screen, and while it's...
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