MMFF 2016 Movie Review: ‘Sunday Beauty Queen’
‘SUNDAY BEAUTY QUEEN’ is the sincerest film in this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) lineup, if not the most heartwarming of them all.
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MMFF 2016 Winners vs Hot Faves
IT’S MMFF 2016 AWARDS NIGHT again, and like every year before, we become instant judges, if only for one night.
MMFF 2016 Movie Review: ‘Vince and Kath and James’
STAR CINEMA finally has a good romantic-comedy entry at the Metro Manila Film Festival.
MMFF 2016 Movie Review: ‘Die Beautiful’
BEYOND THE MAKEUP transformations, ‘Die Beautiful’ shows what it means to be a gay man by taking viewers along on the journey — from being unaccepted at home and surviving sexual abuse, to becoming a beauty queen, and ultimately, a transwoman.
MMFF 2016 Box Office Results: Opening Day Rankings and Earnings
FOR THE FIRST TIME in years, the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) opened without its usual box-office insurance. The annual Christmas festival, which fills Metro Manila cinemas exclusively with local films from December 25 into the new year, has long leaned on crowd-pleasers built around bankable stars like Vice Ganda, Vic Sotto, and AiAi delas Alas. The 2016 edition left them out in favor of a lineup picked for quality, and everyone watching the money is now watching the festival.
Newcomers Ronnie Alonte, Dominic Roque lead the cast of Erik Matti’s ‘Seklusyon’
UNLIKE HIS PREVIOUS films, Erik Matti’s ‘Seklusyon’ won’t hand you the biggest names in showbiz, but promising stars with enough talent to let the film’s real strength shine through.
MMFF 2016: The Change We’ve Been Waiting For
WE CAN’T HELP but applaud the people behind this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) for stepping up and offering a genuinely great lineup for the 2016 festival.
MMFF 2016 Entries, Trailers
EXPECT A DIFFERENT Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) this 2016, as the final list of entries skips the big names and old franchises usually put out by the major studios.