[source: Philippine Journal article]
BOLD actor Allen Dizon is challenged by the fact that he’s playing an aging macho dancer in Centerstage Productions’ “Twighlight Dancers.” He shares stellar billing with Tyron Perez and Cherry Pie Picache in this film about the personal tragedies and unusual friendship between two macho dancers.
Considered as the third installment in the Macho Dancer tradition (the other two are Sibak and Burlesk Queen), both Allen and Tyron get entangled in the web of Madam Loca (Cherry Pie), a scheming and manipulative underworld character.
The fact …

Eternity (2006)
Director: Mark Reyes
Actors: Iza Calzado, DingDong Dantes, Jennylyn Mercado, Mark Herras
Theme Song: In a Lifetime (Gary Valenciano)
August 2006 showing
[source: Philippine Journal article]
IPINANOOD sa amin ni direk Mark Reyes ang teaser ng Eternity at walang exaggeration, parang Age of Innocence, Dangerous Liaison at Sense and Sensibilities ang dating nito sa amin nina Pilar Mateo at Ambet Nabus.
Tama si direk na bagay na theme song ang In a Lifetime ni Gary Valenciano dahil mas gumanda ang pelikula.
Type na naman namin ang blurb nitong: “Two souls…two lifetimes…a second chance…to fall in love.”
Sabi …

Tipikal ang reaksyon ni Philip Cheah ng Singapore Film Festival na nakapanood ng pelikula:
“… The lead actress who is a fat lady is brilliant. The film is shot digitally with lots of handheld long takes. I think this is the best work of Jeffrey (Jeturian) since Pila Balde and Tuhog.”
Later this month, matutupad na ang pangarap ni Gina. Kumbidado ang Kubrador sa 39th Moscow International Film Festival, sa competition section, from June 25 to July 2.
Ayon sa balita, ito lang ang Asian movie in competition. Exciting, sabi ni Atty. Joji, …

March 2006
Moments of Love: DingDong Dantes, Karylle, and Iza Calzado
(a man of the present falls in love with a woman of the ’50s)
(a la Pretty Woman)
Katrina Halili and Dingdong Dantes

Cinemalaya filmfest announces 10 finalists
[source: article by Nestor U. Torre of inq7.net]
Local movie buffs and new filmmakers are excited over the second Cinemalaya alternative filmfest, which unreels four months from now.
Who are the 10 new writer-directors who will each be given a seed grant of P500,000 by Tonyboy Cojuangco to demonstrate their ability as filmmakers, and to enrich viewers’ lives with alternative movies they wouldn’t usually get to see in the country’s more predictable mainstream cinema?
Entries
The 10 winners were supposed to be announced last month, but the members of the …

I Love Paris (Angel Locsin and Richard Gutierrez)
Sometime mid 2006.

I Will Always Love You
Angel Locsin and Richard Gutierrez

Blue Moon is about an elderly man named Manuel Pineda (played by respected actor/director Eddie Garcia) looking for Corazon, his long-lost love, after he’s told that he only has a few months to live.
Accompanying him in his search are his son, Rod (Christopher de Leon), and grandson, Kyle (Dennis Trillo). Jennylyn Mercado and Pauleen Luna portray the two Corazons who where both loved by Manuel.
“Blue Moon has something for everyone,” says director Joel Lamangan. “I’m sure the audience will enjoy the film. This movie is a very positive and …

When Kuh Ledesma (as Tiger Lily) and Bembol Roco (as Kumar) were cast in the Peter Weir-directed and Oscar award-winning movie “The Year of Living Dangerously” in 1982, Filipinos had their eyes glued on the two Pinoy actors. They were proud that their kababayans were doing an international movie.
Of course, way before this casting coup, there was Barbara Perez, dubbed during her time as the Audrey Hepburn of the Philippines, who co-starred with Jeffrey Hunter in “No Man is an Island” in 1962. It is said that after doing the …

Julia’s movie bags Argentina film award
Julia Clarete was excited and proud when she learned that the independent film that she co-starred in, together with Yul Servo, won a foreign award. The movie was entitled “Sa Ilalim ng Cogon.”
The movie bagged the “Best International Picture” award at the recently concluded Rojo Sanggre International Film Festival in Argentina.
Because she was in Los Angeles at that time, Julia, an Eat Bulaga mainstay, was surprised when she received the text that the film won.
And she was doubly surprised when the American audience recognized her …