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Last Thursday, May 27, I visited a veritable one-of-a-kind place in Cebu: The Tioseco-Bohinc Film Archive. Set-up by friends in Cebu’s Independent Filmmaking Scene, the film archive serves as a library of world cinema with a private collection of over 2000 films. The purpose of the archive is to be the venue for cinephiles and [...]

“Welcome to IntelStar” is a Palanca-award winning, interactive, call center comedy set to entertain you this Sunday, May 2, at the CAP Arts Center. Reviewed as “heart-rending and rip-roaringly funny”, the show has played to full houses during its previous run in Cebu last 2006.

SineBuano highly recommends ESKRIMADORS, an independently produced martial arts documentary from Cebu-based film outfit POINTSOURCE FILMS.

KNOWING Alex Proyas is an expert in framing his scenes; with very curtailed and premeditated camera moves. The images in the film are indeed disturbing; my favorite is the train sequence; watch the very disturbing shot through the window POV. (I won’t spoil anything here). Though strange little kids have become a cliche these days, [...]

If I had my way at A.M.P.A.S, I would give this the Best Picture, if they couldn’t at least let Benjamin Button win. There is no doubt that this is a very personal effort for Eastwood; as the character he plays jives with how he is in his years of reflecting on generativity vs. stagnation. [...]

I don’t really know Danny Boyle all that much, but his passion and gusto that are shown in films like “28 Days Later” definitely carry over into this Hindi set drama. I thought it was a little bit too self indulgent at times, but I liked the temporal displacement of the narrative. I also thought [...]