January 8 - The Boy and The Heron (from Encore Films/Warner Bros.)  Studio Ghibli’s and Hayao Miyazaki’s award-winning and record-breaking anime film “The Boy and The Heron”  is a big fantastical film that follows a boy named Mahito (voiced by Soma Santoki) who enters a magical world with a talking grey heron after finding an abandoned tower in his new town. Yearning for his mother, Mahito ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead where death comes to an end and life finds a new beginning.  “The Boy and The Heron” is a semi-autobiographical fantasy about life,...

Buy your tickets here     Fans who are eagerly awaiting Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and The Heron are in for a thrilling experience at the cinemas as Encore Films (Ph) and Warner Bros. bring the original Japanese and English-dubbed versions to local screens nationwide.   The film has been nominated and also won in prestigious film awards circles. The film continues to awe audiences around the globe, palpably evident with rave reviews from critics and non-critics alike, even breaking box-office records in every territory where it opened.    The Boy and the Heron so far has...

New year, new beginning.    This January, meet the latest original adorable characters created by Illumination, the animation studio behind the record-shattering The Super Mario Bros. Movie and beloved franchises Minions, Despicable Me, Sing and The Secret Life of Pets—a duck family called the Mallards, who are going to embark on a great big adventure for the first time ever in the new comedy Migration.    And it’s not just the Mallards who are doing something new. With Migration, a funny, emotional and visually stunning film that explores universal themes of family, curiosity and the rewards of stepping outside your...

In the new edgy and sexy romantic-comedy Anyone But You, Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell play romantic enemies who have to put aside their personal vendettas and pretend to be a head-over-heels couple in order to keep the peace at Bea’s sister’s dream destination wedding. “This movie is a wild, fun time,” says Sweeney, who plays Bea. “It’s sexy, it’s funny, it’s R-rated, there’s beautiful places, an amazing cast. What more could you want?”   Anyone But You began to take shape when Sweeney signed on not only to star, but executive produce the film. As the first filmmaker on...

Merry Christmas, Aquaman fans!    “The Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” starring Jason Momoa as the titular superhero, is now showing in cinemas. And as a holiday treat for moviegoers, the super sequel will continue playing in IMAX theaters nationwide, in 4DX and Uptown Tempur Cinema at Uptown Mall in Taguig, during the Metro Manila Film Festival from December 25 to January 7.      The movie, directed by James Wan and also starring Patrick Wilson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nicole Kidman and Amber Heard, opened with midnight screenings on December 20.    Fans can also immerse themselves in the world...