Pacquiao makes Ilonggos look, listen

ILOILO CITY – Not even the Philippine President, or a superstar entertainer can make the Ilonggos drop everything to look and listen except a celebrity athlete from General Santos City.

Yes, it is only Manny Pacquiao the great boxer who can move the Ilonggos to unite as one and be ready to cheer his fight as proud Filipinos.

Mayor Jerry P. Treñas said the previous fights of Pacquaio were able to stop congested traffic here and criminals to ply their trade in this highly urbanized in the Visayas.

“A zero crime rate during Pacquaio’s fight. This is how Ilonggos love Pacquio,” is how Treñas describes the previous fights. Even jeepney, trisikad and tricycle drivers and market and sidewalk vendors shun the streets during the zero hour. Read more

Slumdog Millionaire

Jamal (Dev Patel) is one question away from winning 20 million rupees on the Indian version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” before the cops bring him in for questioning on suspicion of cheating. The film jumps back and forth between Jamal’s interrogation and an array of memories — drawn from a dangerous, unschooled life on the run with his brother Salim and an unending search to reunite with his love, Latika (Freida Pinto) — that may indicate how he knew the answers.

The buzz: The movie has already made a big splash at the Toronto Film Festival and offers a story that’s practically guaranteed to draw you in. Plus, we already know director Danny Boyle can handle rough-and-tumble lives (”Trainspotting”) and sweet stories about kids determining the relationship between money and happiness (”Millions”). Read more

Knowing - Movie

Academy Award® Winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in Knowing, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future—and sets out to prevent them from coming true.

In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead.

Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule’s contents and the girl’s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it is Caleb’s father, professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As Ted further unravels the document’s chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events—the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve Ted and his son. When Ted’s attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place. Read more

Dragonball - Evolution

[Based on] The King Piccolo Saga [Dragonball], also known as the Piccolo Daimaoh Saga (Demon Lord Piccolo Saga) is the penultimate saga from the anime Dragon Ball. It occurs after the Tien Shinhan Saga and precedes the Piccolo Junior Saga. It includes the battles between Goku and King Piccolo’s sons, Goku’s first encounter with the Samurai warrior, Yajirobe, Goku’s quest to find the Holy Water, his final battle with young King Piccolo, and the birth of Piccolo Junior

Appearances also made by Yamcha and Bulma but regretably not Bwar or Oolong, nor even Krillin. Ox King and his Daughter Chi Chi are speculate. Read more

Tenement 2 (T2) Movie

The Diamond Star Maricel Soriano topbills Star Cinema’s 3rd offering for 2009 - a horror movie entitled “T2.”

In the tradition of horror films such as Feng Shui and Sukob, Star Cinema finally brings back the box-office director of horror movies, Mr. Chito Roño in his next horror movie project in the said film outfit.

The story is about a young girl (played by Mika dela Cruz, younger sister of actress Angelika dela Cruz) who lost her parents and then meets Claire (Maricel Soriano), a volunteer worker in an NGO for orphans. She is assigned to take Mica to some living relatives. She’s married to Derek Ramsay.

Also starring in Tenement 2 are Tetchie Agbayani, Camille Prats, Kai Brosas (as their neighbors in the tenement) and Eric Fructuoso (as Maricel’s driver). Read more