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Rebyu ni Vives Anunciacion Inquirer Libre May 21, 2006 Over the Hedge Direksiyon nina Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick Panulat nina Len Blum, Lorne Cameron Base sa cartoon strip nina Michael Fry at T Lewis Tampok sina Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell GP/ 83 minuto DreamWorks Animation Nakaramdam na ba kayo ng sugar rush? Yung mapa-palpitate ang puso niyo at makakaramdam ng pangangailangan para kumilos ng mabilis. Parang ganun ang Over the Hedge – malasa, mabilis at mapapangiti kayo sa saya. Si RJ (boses ni Bruce Willis) ay isang maabilidad na raccoon na nasanay na sa junk food at kagamitan ng tao. Sa tindi ng gutom isang gabi ay madidisgrasya niya ang inipong pagkain ng isang nagha-hibernate na oso (si Vincent, binosesan ni Nick Nolte). Bibigyan ni Vincent si RJ ng isang lingo para mag-ipon ng kapalit na pagkain, kundi’y si RJ ang kakainin ng oso. Samantala, magugulat na lang sina Verne (ang seryoso at mabusising pagong na binosesan ni Garry Shandling), Hammy (ang neurotic at ...

(This review came out in May 24, 2004. It's one of my personal favorites and I'm reposting it in conjunction with Time Magazine's recent special issue on global warming. In retrospect, I wish I hadn't written the last paragraphs of the review so ominously. As stated on the cover of the said Time issue, "Be Worried. Be VERY worried.") T.E.O.T.E.W.A.W.K.I. Review by Vives Anunciacion The Day After Tomorrow Written and Directed by Roland Emmerich Starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Sela Ward PG13 / 124 minutes 20th Century Fox “Urgent: HQ Direction," began a message e-mailed on April 1 to dozens of scientists and officials at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "No one from NASA is to do interviews or otherwise comment on anything having to do with (the film)," said the message, sent by Goddard's top press officer. "Any news media wanting to discuss science fiction vs. science fact about climate cha...

Review by Vives Anunciacion Inquirer Libre May 12, 2006 Poseidon Directed by Wolfgang Petersen Written by Mark Protosevich Based on the novel by Paul Gallico Starring Josh Lucas, Kurt Russel PG 13/ 99 minutes Warner Brothers/ Virtual Studios In its first 20 minutes, I had my hand over my mouth completely awestruck. Okay, maybe not completely, but surprised to be impressed. Poseidon , god of the seas, has edge-of-your-seat excitement to the last second. Hold your precious breath; this has water, water everywhere. It’s actually a remake of the 1972 cult classic The Poseidon Adventure that started the disaster flick craze. When the trailer for Poseidon first came out earlier this year, I overheard people quickly dismiss it as another Titanic rip-off. Poseidon Adventure : 1972. Titanic : 1997. Kung ginawa bang pelikula ang MV Doña Paz tragedy, tatawagin pa rin bang Titanic iyon? In Poseidon , Wolfgang Petersen improves on and combines the tragedies of two of his previous waterborne films...

Review by Vives Anunciacion May 10, 2006 Inquirer Libre Mission: Impossible III Directed by J.J. Abrams Written by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, J.J. Abrams Starring Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman PG13/ 126 minutes Paramount Pictures/ UIP Ten years after his first Mission Impossible movie, Tom Cruise is jumping over taller buildings and dodging more lethal bazookas as Special Agent Ethan Hunt in the most explosive version of the M:I series. Popcorns please! M:i:III delivers slam-bang block-buster action bursting to the seams. Credit must be given to M:i:III’s director, J.J. Abrams, who created the phenomenal TV series Alias and Lost. M:i:III flows kinetically the same way the actions and the storyline progress in the said TV shows, maybe trademarks of the successful director. But this aesthetic style is both its strength (compared to previous Mission movies) and weakness (compared to other movies in general). M:i:III begins at its climax - Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is strapped o...

Reviewed by Vives Anunciacion (unpublished) The Sentinel Directed by Clark Johnson Written by George Nolfi Based on the novel by Gerald Petievich Starring Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria PG 13/ 108 minutes 20th Century Fox/ Regency At 61, Michael Douglas should probably retire from making any more action movies, his long filmography has apparently taken the better of him. Or, to put it in another way, we already liked him when he played President Andrew Shepard in the romantic comedy, The American President way back in 1995. In The Sentinel, Douglas plays Secret Service Agent Pete Garrison, who is directly assigned to protect US First Lady Sarah Ballentine (Kim Basinger), although this is no Guarding Tess, the comedy about a retired First Lady and her bumbling Secret Service bodyguard starring Shirley MacLaine. Anyway, back to The Sentinel. A secret service agent is mysteriously killed and the agency’s top agent, David Breckinridge (Kiefer Sutherland), investigates the...