"Babe, I Love You" by Piolo Pascual Official Music Video Movie Soundtrack!

Summer has already started, and Star Cinema will continue to make your Summer 2010 scorching with the heat of this another loveteam to beat. Real lives ex-couple Sam Milby and Anne Curtis will surely fire your Summer in Star Cinema's sizzling Summer movie offering, "Babe, I Love You".

And a few days ago, the premiere quality movie maker, Star Cinema, has released the official music video of the movie "Babe, I Love You" sang by actor Piolo Pascual. Below are some of the screenshots of the film.

Watch "Babe, I Love You" official music video movie soundtrack.

For more information on "Babe, I Love You" movie, you may click the link provided below.

• "Babe, I Love You" Movie Trailer Teaser, Cast and Information!

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Showing in Philippine Cinemas this March 2010!

In this Screenings post of the month, I will try something different from what we have been doing for the past months. Please tell me in the comments if you liked it or not.

I will be starting with a list of movies showing in Philippine cinemas this March 2010 arranged by release date, just like a movie guide. And then I will be sharing my three picks of the month from those movies. These five movies are what I think the must-watch movies of the month and I will elaborate on them one by one.

Here goes:

Movies Showing in Philippine Cinemas this March 2010

March 3
The Fourth Kind 
Up in the Air 
Cop Out 
Crazy Heart 
Pitas 
The Road 

March 4
Alice in Wonderland

Mar 10
The Red Shoes
Parisukat
Extraordinary Measures
The Box

March 12
Remember Me
Green Zone

March 17
When in Rome
The Book of Eli
The Lovely Bones
Debt

March 24
Romeo at Juliet


March 26
How to Train Your Dragon

Must-Watch Movies for the month of March

Here are the three movies that you should not miss watching this March:

Alice in Wonderland

What is Alice in Wonderland?

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland starring Johnny Depp, is about Alice's second adventure down the rabbit hole to the Wonderland, a place she had visited 13 years ago. The Red Queen has taken over the place by steeling the crown from her sister the White Queen, and Alice is the only one who can save Wonderland by killing the dragon, Jabberwocky.

Fine, Why Should I Watch Alice in Wonderland?

Alice in Wonderland is currently the highest grossing film of 2010 worldwide. It has already surpassed Avatar's IMAX earning records of $9.5 million by earning $11.9 million. Plus! Tim Burton promises more connection with Alice and the other Wonderland characters, unlike in the book where she just pass from character to character.

Alice in Wonderland movie reviews reach a general consensus that the 3D movie is "an undeniable visual treat". Other's are saying it has "managed to hit emotianally satisfying marks" which means it doesn't only appeal to the eyes but also to the heart.

Learn more about Alice in Wonderland

Romeo at Juliet

What is "Romeo at Juliet'?

"Romeo at Juliet" is a Filipino indie movie starring Alessandra de Rossi and Victor Basa. The lead characters are not named Romeo and Juliet, but Joseph and Angel. It is based on an unpublished book by Jean Altavas entitled "Kakaibang Romeo at Juliet" which tells the tragic love story of a modern star-crossed lovers.

Fine, Why Should I Watch "Romeo at Juliet"?

According to Altavas, this is not your ordinary indie film which tackles the dark side of life because the characters in this film are not poor or under-privileged. "Troubles happen to people regardless of status," says Altavas.

This movie will break your usual movie-watching menu from the mainstream movie producers. What more? You get to see Alessandra de Rossi bare it all for the first time. The "Romeo at Juliet" movie trailer alone was rated X by MTRCB.

Romeo at Juliet Movie Trailer

Up in the Air

What is Up in the Air?

Up in the Air starring George Clooney is a drama comedy about a Ryan Bingham whose job is to fire people. His job gives him the opportunity to travel almost everyday of his life which keeps him away from emotional connections to other people. Which is the way he like it.

Or he thought he liked it. Because when he tries to show a junior co-worker how his job is really like, he ends up seeing how lonely his life has always been.

Fine, Why Should I Watch Up in the Air?

Although Up in the Air didn't won any awards during the recently concluded 82nd OSCARS Academy Awards, it is still a must-watch movie because it will make you think of your life too.

You'll definitely enjoy the comedy as Ryan Bingham's life is presented in a simple and witty manner, while not losing the message underneath it all. Up in the Air movie reviews agree that it has "a very strong sense of humor as well as an emotional depth".

Read My Up in the Air Movie Review

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The OSCARS 2010 Winners (Complete List)!

(Photo courtesy of http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/)

The nominees has been announced more than month ago, and now, the stage is set for the announcement of winners in the 82nd Annual Academy Awards (OSCARS 2010). It has been announced that the science fiction movie and James Cameron film, Avatar and war thriller film by Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker lead the 82nd Academy Awards nominations garnering a whooping nine nominations followed by the Quentin Tarantino film, Inglorious Basterds with eight nominations. Who will emerged as the big winner in this year's OSCAR awards? Check out the OSCARS 2010 winners list below:

The OSCARS 2010 Winners

Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”

Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”

Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”

Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

Animated Feature Film: “Up” Pete Docter

Art Direction: “Avatar” Art Direction by Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair

Cinematography: “Avatar” Mauro Fiore

Costume Design: “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell

Directing: “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow

Documentary (Feature): “The Cove” Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens

Documentary (Short Subject): “Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett

Film Editing: “The Hurt Locker” Bob Murawski and Chris Innis

Foreign Language Film: “The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)” Argentina

Makeup: “Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow

Music (Original Score): “Up” Michael Giacchino

Music (Original Song): “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Best Picture: “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, Producers

Short Film (Animated): “Logorama” Nicolas Schmerkin

Short Film (Live Action): “The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Sound Editing: “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson

Sound Mixing: “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett

Visual Effects: “Avatar” Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones

Writing (Adapted Screenplay): “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher

Writing (Original Screenplay): The Hurt Locker Written by Mark Boal

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Movie Review: The Hurt Locker, Playing with Me Like a Bomb

I need a little help with this movie review.

In the last parts of the movie, Seargent First Class William James, played by Jeremy Renner, was talking to his infant son:


You know what, buddy? Once you get older, some of the things that you love might not seem so special anymore. Like your Jack in the Box. Maybe you realize it's just a piece of tin and a stuffed animal and then you forget the few things you really love. And by the time you get to my age maybe it's only one or two things. With me I think it's one.

I'm confused which "one" he is talking about. Is it his child or is it his job as an explosive ordnance disposal team leader, disarming explosive devices in Iraq?

About The Hurt Locker movie

The Hurt Locker follows James as the new team leader of the EOD team during the Iraq war. The team also includes Sergeant J.T. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty), whose jobs are to support their team leader in defusing the explosives and protect him from snipers and any suspicious elements that maybe hiding in Iraqi buildings.

The Hurt Locker movie highlights the scenes we are seeing on CNN about cross-country wars. Who would want to play with bombs as a means of living?

What does "the hurt locker" mean?

At first, I thought "the hurt locker" refers to a person whose job is to save the people from getting hurt. As in "locking" the hurt so it won't get to others.

But after some research, I found out that "the hurt locker" is a slang term for "being hurt in an explosion." It also means a place where someone is deemed to be hurt, like in a war. As in a "locker" or "shelf" full of hurt or pain.

The term "hurt locker" in this movie describes the suffering a bomb disposal team undergoes. Not only physical pain but also social and emotional anguish. Being away from your family. Dealing with each other's differences. Trying to escape death.

Who would play with bombs for a living?

Again, back to the message Seargent James told his son. Is it his son the only thing he loves or is it his job?

Seargent James is a reckless and courageous bomb disposal team leader. He unnecessarily throws tear gas to create a diversion. He would rather take off his bomb suit during a crucial mission because in this words "If I'm going to die, I'm going to die comfortable."

This reckless has lead to a situation where Specialist Eldridge was shot in the foot.

Why is Seargent James so reckless?

While watching the movie, my question was, why is Seargent James this reckless? Doesn't he have anything to lose? Does he have a family or something?

As it is revealed. He have a wife and a kid. They're divorced. But they're still living together. Looks like Seargent James don't care a lot what their relationship is. So maybe a dysfunctional family relationship made him so reckless.

He's ready to risk his life because he has nothing to lose. No one would really care.

But he does have something to lose.

In the scene where an innocent man was strapped with a vest full of explosives, and Seargent James only got two minutes to save him, I learned he does have something to lose.

The movie didn't tried to do the impossible. With a hair of a minute, Seargent James had to make an important decision, that of saving his own life.

To answer my question, maybe the only thing he loves is not his son. Maybe it is not his job, too.

The only he thing he loves is himself. Doing what he loves to do.

What do you think?

The Hurt Locker is directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. It has received nine nominations in the 82nd Academy Awards (Oscars 2010), including the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actor awards. The Oscars 2010 will announce its winner on March 7, 2010.

Update: The Hurt Locker won the Best Picture award in the recently concluded 82nd OSCARS Academy Awards. Kathryn Bigelow won the Best Director award. The movie also won the awards in Film Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Best Original Screenplay.

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"The Red Shoes" Movie Trailer, Cast and Information

The Red Shoes, by UNICO entertainment, an affiliate of Unitel Productions, makers of hit and quality movies such as La Visa Loca, starring Robin Padilla, and Crying Ladies, starring Sharon Cuneta, Angel Aquino and Hilda Coronel, had a cinema preview last week, and some of my blogger friends were invited to the said event. According to them, The Red Shoes movie is brilliant and has a wonderful script. I can see from its production and movie trailer below that this movie really has substance.

The Red Shoes movie information

Graded A by the Cinema Evaluation Board, The Red Shoes tackles the life of a young man who stole a pair of red shoes from the First Lady of Malacañang, Imelda Marcos during the Marcos's eviction in the palace in 1986. From here, the story will evolve and progress as the young man, played by Marvin Agustin deals with his life and love. The Red Shoes also stars singer-turned-actress Nikki Gil and Tessie Tomas as Imelda Marcos.

Tessie Tomas loves to potray the role of Imelda Marcos in every occasion possible. It will be remembered that Ms. Tessie Tomas played the role as the First Lady of Malacañang in the 1988 Australian production mini-series, A Dangerous Life. The mini-series tackled the sensitive issue that was the EDSA Revolution in 1986 and how the Marcoses were evicted out of the Presidential Palace.

In The Red Shoes movie, however, a back story on one of Imelda Marcos' pairs of shoes has given a very intelligent approach to the story. Yes, the story is fictional, but the events that has happened and lead to the making of the story is true.

The story will began in 1986, where a young Lucas, entered Imelda Marcos's shoe room gallery. The room which is full shoes, literally, has a lot of shoes to offer. With more than 3000 pairs to choose from, the young Lucas chooses only one, which is the red shoes, and here is where the story will begin.

The Red Shoes synopsis/summary/plot

The Unitel Productions, headed by movie producer, Tony Gloria, posted the summary/synopsis/plot of The Red Shoes movie on the official website of the film. Here is the typed-written short summary/synopsis/plot of the movie The Red Shoes:

In 1986, ten-year old Lucas Munozca catches sight of the First Lady's 3000 pairs of shoes and steals a lovely red pair. He gives one shoe to his childhood sweetheart, while he gives the other to his widowed mother. In 2006, Lucas is stuck with one kind of footwear. He too, is stuck with his past, unable to move on from losing the love of his life. When his mother suddenly needs the complete pair, Lucas is forced to confront the consequences of stealing the shoes and to reveal why he did it.

The Red Shoes Cast and Production Staffs

• Marvin Agustin
• Nikki Gil
• Liza Lorena
• Tessie Tomas
• Tirso Cruz III
• Techie Agbayani
• Iwa Moto

• Nolet Clemente, Sound Recording
• Jessie Lasaten, Musical Scoring
• Ike Veneracion, Editing
• Ike Avellana, Cinematography
• Norman Regalado, Production Design
• Josie Bracamonte and Noemi Peji, Line Producers
• Tito Velasco, Executive Producer
• James Ladioray, Co-Producer
• Tony Gloria, Producer
• James Ladioray, Writer/Story
• Raul Jorolan, Director

The Red Shoes movie trailer

Unitel Productions' The Red Shoes movie, topbilled by Marvin Agustin and Nikki Gil is showing on March 10, 2010 in different theaters nationwide. For more information on the movie, The Red Shoes, you may log on to the official website of movie at http://www.theredshoes.com.ph/.

Blogger friend PinoyGossipBoy (PGB) has written a very detailed "The Red Shoes" movie review. If you want to know the movie review on "The Red Shoes" first before watching movie itself, you may click the link provided below:

• Movie Review: The Red Shoes by PGB

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Movie Review: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Way Below Harry Potter

At first I thought the Percy Jackson movie series would rival the Harry Potter movie series. Both have are based on novel series. Percy Jackson's director also directed the first two Harry Potter movies.

Both are on already established genres - Harry Potter on wizards and witches, and Percy Jackson on gods and goddesses of the Greek mythology. And both centers on half-bloods as protagonists.

But where Harry Potter has succeeded is where Percy Jackson fall short. Percy Jackson did not offer any amazing new things about the Greek mythology the way Harry Potter opened our eyes to wizardry.

While Harry Potter keeps on tickling my imagination on the wizards' way of life, how they learn magic, how they play Quidditch, how they made potions and how they made the mudbloods believe they don't exist, Percy Jackson bores me with the same things we already know about the gods of Olympus.

Warning, the following paragraphs may contain some spoilers.

The movie is about Percy Jackson's (Logan Lerman) adventure together with Grover (Brandon Jackson), half-goat half-human, and Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario), daughter of Athena, facing creatures in mythology like satyrs, centaurs, and monsters like the Minotaur, Medusa (Uma Thurman), and the five-headed dragon Hydra.

What's so boring about this is that we've already read about these monsters and we already know they will be defeated, which makes scenes easily predictable. I can already tell Percy would try cutting the Hydra's heads and then it would grow more heads.

If I'm not mistaken, Medusa is already dead in the books. Well, she's still alive and kicking in the movie only to be beheaded by Percy.

The Half-Blood Copy Cat

Anyone who have seen the Harry Potter movies would say the writer of Percy Jackson got most of his ideas from JK Rowling. Number one, Percy Jackson is a half-blood just like Harry Potter. Number two, they have a training camp called Half Blood Camp just like Hogwarts, with Pierce Brosnan playing a role like that of Dumbledore.

Why do they have a training camp for half-mortal half-gods anyway? Hercules didn't need training, did he?

I don't see them learning interesting things like potions and magics. It's looks like a military training camp to me.

They are training demigods because they will be the future generation of gods? It would make sense if Zeus, Poseidon and Hades will die soon. But they are immortal, remember?

The Omnipotent Lead Character

Among those in training in the Half-Blood camp, only Percy Jackson was able to discover his powers - controlling water. It is as if the other gods has no power they can bestow to their sons and daughters.

And when he has learned his powers, you'll say he is not a demigod but a full-pledge god. With a bottle of water in his hand, he can do antything.

Back to Hercules, the son of Zeus. Did Hercules inherited the power over the weather? Or did any of Zeus' bloodlines inherited any of that power? Then why did Percy Jackson inherited the power over water?

And what's wrong with the gods of Olympus? They just quarrel like five-year-olds and only care about waging war against each other. I know that's the way they are wired in the books but in this movie they do it just sitting in their thrones. Where's the fun in that?

But oh...

The only thing that amazed me in this movie is that they pictured the gods as giants. I guess that's new. I always thought the gods are just like our size.

In Summary...

Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief doesn't bring anything new to the table. It just messes with the Greek mythology which makes it very hard to believe. Maybe the Greek mythology is too old to create a movie on. Or maybe this movie just lacks creativity.

I haven't read the Percy Jackson books but I am hoping they are better than this Percy Jackson movie (like the Harry Potter books are better than the Harry Potter movies).

And if they are continuing on producing the rest of the books in the series, let's see how they would bring this boring topic into like. I will still be waiting for the second movie to check out if there would be new things.

This first movie sucks. It's like how a ten-year-old boy would brag about the mythology stories to his playmates, with himself in the center of it all.

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