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Horror scope Review by Vives Anunciacion Inquirer Libre May 30, 2007 Zodiac Directed by David Fincher Based on the book by Robert Graysmith Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey, Jr. R13/ 158 minutes Warner Brothers Pictures *** ½ (3 ½ stars) Most suspense thrillers attempt to satisfy their audience with non-stop action chases, quick cross-cutting scenes, mega plot-twists and rising music. Meet the anti-thriller thriller. Director David Fincher is best known for reshaping the crime thriller in the groundbreaking 1995 drama Se7en starring Brad Pitt. In that movie, two detectives (one of them played by Pitt, the other by Morgan Freeman) are thrown into the darkest pits of human behavior while on a chase to find a serial killer, known only as John Doe, who uses the seven deadly sins as MO. In Fight Club (1999), Fincher vented suppressed male aggression when an unknown office employee (Edward Norton) and a soap salesman (Brad Pitt) start an organization that erupts into g...

(review in Filipino) Bean there, bean that Rebyu ni Vives Anunciacion Inquirer Libre, May 28, 2007 Mr. Bean’s Holiday Direksiyon ni Steve Bendelack GP/ 90 minuto Universal Pictures/ Studio Canal ** ½ (2 ½ stars) Kung tutuusin, isa siyang salot na may kasunod na disgrasya saan man siya mapadpad, anuman ang kaniyang gawin. Nakatatawa man si Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) sa TV, hindi ibig sabihin ganoon din iyon kaagad sa pelikula. Buti na lang, pwedeng tiisin. Sa Mr. Bean’s Holiday, panalo sa raffle ng trip to France si Mr. Bean (first name, ayon sa passport niya, ay Rowan). Dying to see the dagat si Mr. Bean, kaya tuwang-tuwa siya nang manalo. Pero gaya ng nangyayari sa kaniya sa TV, sangkaterbang kamalasan ang kanyang matitikman marating lang ang mainit na buhangin ng Cannes, France. Malamang hindi pa nila naririnig ang Boracay. Gamit ang kaniyang handheld video camera, malilibot ni Mr. Bean ang magagandang tanawin sa France bago niya marating ang Cannes. Sa kanyang paglalakbay, makakasama...

(review in Filipino) Yo ho, suki!* Rebyu ni Vives Anunciacion Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Directed by Gore Verbinski Starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Kiera Knightley GP/ 168 minutes Walt Disney Pictures *** (3 stars) Tuloy ang pamimirata sa ikatlo at pinakamaaksiyon (pero malamang hindi pa huling) Pirates of the Caribbean kung saan magsasanib ang mga pwersa ng mga pirata laban sa East India Company. Huwag aalis ng sinehan hanggat hindi tapos ang end credits, dahil ang bonus na eksena’y malamang wala sa pirated dvd. Nagpapatuloy ang mga adventures nina Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Kiera Knightley) at Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) sa isang magulo, maaksiyon at makwelang palabas na magsasara sa mga kwento ng Pirates 1 at Pirates 2, pero magbubukas naman ng posibilidad para sa Pirates 4. Sa At World’s End, magkikita sina Barbossa, Elizabeth at Will sa Singapore upang hingiin ang tulong ni Sao Feng (Chow Yun Fat) at ng...

yo, ho! that was a fun ride! will write the review for friday, but for now.. aaaargh!

oh my gods i just saw David Fincher's latest movie Zodiac and it's in-effing-credible. wow. well done. will write about it next week, i'm seeing At world's End on wednesday and am writing about that for a friday review. meanwhile, next week's sched of screenings seem to be Mr. Bean's Holiday, Ocean's 13, and then first week of june will be Transformers, then Rise of the Silver Surfer, then Borne Ultimatum.

my next review will be about 28 Weeks Later , opening today in the Metro. Pretty good direction from relative newcomer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, thematically an improvement of the first and technically better (although it's already known that the first was successfully shot using a Canon XL2, the sequel uses Super16 celluloid most of the time). Better bring your barkada or any form of protection, you cannot be too sure that the person sitting next to you is not an infected zombie. pray that the avian flu will not mutate like this. lordy.

Measure for measure Review by Vives Anunciacion Inquirer Libre May 7, 2007 Spider-Man 3 Directed by Sam Raimi Written by Sam and Ivan Raimi GP/ 140 minutes Columbia Pictures *** (3 stars) No, Spider-Man 3 isn’t the best of the series, no matter how entertaining it is. But if this is the third of a trilogy, then it deserves a fourth installment – if only to save a series that shouldn’t end with a loser. Spoilers beware, so proceed with caution. In the movie, Spider-Man is the toast of New York City, Peter Parker (also Tobey Maguire) is getting noticed as a photographer, and he is about to propose marriage to Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) when three supervillains appear to change all that. An escaped convict (Flint Marko, acted by Thomas Haden Church) literally jumps into the middle of a scientific experiment, becoming Sandman. In a few short lines, Flint’s wife explains his condition to the audience (“You are a convict, you are being chased by the police, and I don’t like you anymore”). W...

Look inside Review by Vives Anunciacion Inquirer Libre May 4, 2007 Directed by Guillermo del Toro R 13/ 112 minutes En Español, with English Subtitles ***** (5 stars) "If you're listening, God, Please don't make it hard to know if we should believe the things that we see." - Home, The Wiz Esperar el inesperado. Metaphorically profound yet brutally literal at the same time, Pan's Labyrinth is ultimately a soul-stirring elegy on the coldness of reality and the comfort of fantasy. Believe what you want to believe in this impossibly heartbreaking adult fairy tale from Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro. Expect the unexpected. Set in a military outpost in the mountains of 1944 facist Spain under the tyrannical rule of Francisco Franco, a recluse, twelve-year old Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) escapes the horrors of war and her sadistic and brutal stepfather (Capitan Vidal, deftly played by Sergi Lopez) when she discovers a magical world within a stone labyrinth where a faun...