An old man sits silently at the table in his countryside kitchen, quietly drinking his coffee as he watches the sunrise across the idyllic valley in which he lives. Despite the simplicity of his life, he feels a crushing loneliness that he wishes to overcome, patiently waiting for some kind of companionship. It’s a familiar…

Over time, we’ve seen the development of a very specific kind of cinematic cliche – a stand-up comedian makes their way to the stage and begins to tell their story, which is usually filled with tragedy or some kind of serious subject matter that they are hoping to filter through a more comedic lens. It…

As is often the case with any cherished property, there is a contingent of devotees who claim that attempting to adapt it to another medium is impossible, which is particularly notable when it comes to film adaptations. While there are instances of certain directors botching attempts to pay tribute to existing works, very few concepts…

Society is filled with an abundance of popular myths, which make it very clear that regardless of how far we believe we have been able to go in terms of technological innovation and sophisticated cultural thought, we are always going to default to believing in the most inane and deranged theories, solely because of how…

In the pantheon of great comedy films, few have stood the test of time quite as well as The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, which is quite remarkable considering how many would consider it to represent a sub-genre that is rarely known for its timeless qualities or ability to challenge audiences, but…

If there is any value in revisiting low-budget cinema from the earliest days of Hollywood, it would be the fact that so many of them are driven by a sense of pure joy, we can’t help be entertained – and while it may seem dismissive, the majority of the most effective works in this regard…

As the well-worn adage goes, sometimes truth can be stranger than fiction. The story of Thelma Post is certainly a fascinating one – after falling victim to a phone scam that robbed her of $10,000 of her savings, 93-year-old retiree Thelma chose to not simply allow the perpetrators to get away with such a despicable…

Every country has a small set of filmmakers who are usually cited as being the canonical representatives of their cinematic culture. Whether this is through the stories they tell or their revolutionary techniques, we often find these filmmakers are amongst the most important of their respective generations. As far as cinema of the Philippines tends…

Amongst his wide body of notable quotes, Oscar Wilde once famously quipped that memory “is the diary that we all carry about with us” – it is an assemblage of all the moments in our lives that are filed away in our minds to be used when they are necessary. It is also the one…

Being in the public eye is quite an experience – as Andy Warhol famously quipped, we will all have our fifteen minutes of fame. In the case of a select few, they’ll be able to reap the rewards of this momentary prosperity later on in life, earning one of the many lifetime achievement awards that…