Movie Review

This is my long overdue movie review on Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise as Col. Stauffenberg, Kenneth Branagh as Major-General Henning von Tresckow, Bill Nighy as General Friedrich Olbricht, Tom Wilkinson as General Friedrich Fromm, Carice van Houten as Nina von Stauffenberg, Terrence Stamp as Ludwig Beck and many others. The Plot Valkyrie presents the...
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Thanks to Azrael and to Warner Bros. Philippines, I got a chance to be part of the advanced screening of Gran Torino. Clint Eastwood is back as Walt Kowalski, a Korean War veteran carrying lots of emotional baggages and guilt in his heart. He’s a recluse. Obnoxious. And definitely racist. He’s the typical Dirty...
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Jason Statham returns to the big screen with the third installment of The Transporter. Amazingly, the movies that Jason Statham stars in tend to feature girls who are pretty but possess a different kind of English accent. Remember Shu Qi? A Snapshot A businessman contacts Frank Martin (Jason Statham) for him to transport a...
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YES MAN! Yes! After watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with its melancholy and rather observant mood on life, YES Man offers another take on living your life, albeit in a rather extreme way. Jim Carrey comes back to the big screen with this comedy about a depressed person turning his life around....
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a treatise on life and how temporal everything is. It is a melancholic reflection on the connections we make to the people around us. The movie offers us advice to live life to the fullest and to never be afraid to start all over because in the...
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While I was browsing the feeds I subscribed to, I came across this good movie review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. This one is from Spill.com. The review is in video format and all I can say is that the guys from Spill.com are grrrreeat!! If you don’t see the Curious Case...
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So far, I have watched only two films in the 34th Metro Manila Film Festival-Baler and Dayo sa Mundo ng Elementalia. For the Penstalker Movie Blog review of Baler, please click here. Here’s my take on Dayo sa Mundo ng Elementalia. A Snapshot Dayo follows the adventures of Bubuy (voiced by Nash Aguas) as...
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Be warned: big time spoilers ahead! So watch the movie first before reading this post. My younger brother was in Manila last week so we decided to watch some kickass movie that features good action, great adrenaline rush and explosions, of course! We chose between the Star Wars: Clone Wars and Death Race. Since,...
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Penstalker will offer you more movie reviews of both international and foreign movies that are screening on Philippine movie houses. A lot of movie critics consider Jason Statham a B-movie actor. They might be justified because of his track record with “The One”, “The Tranporter” 1& 2, and “Rouge War”. The Bank Job is...
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Prom Night is a movie about a prom gone bad thanks to a teacher who’s so obsessed with his student that he just has to kill everyone else! Watch the movie only if you have a bad experience with your Prom Night and you just want some of your classmates to perish off the...
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