Almost all movies a music, especially the popular ones, will provide a snapshot of the time it was created. Take the case of Robocop. When it was first revealed in 1987, it tackled people’s concerns about worsening crime. When I first saw this film when it was released in the late 1980s and found it to be hilariously funny. Being […]
Some conspiracy theorists still consider the moon landing by the United States on September 13, 1959 to be fake. They hasten to add that the country actually filmed it on a stage in some unknown location. One film back in 1977, entitled Capricorn One, dealt with such a topic. However, instead of a moon landing, it tackled a fake trip […]
While I love the current string of comic book hero movies, the one thing I despise about them is that the actors and actresses spend so much time without masks and costumes. More often than not, this leads me to conclude that these big-budgeted movies are more like vanity projects meant to showcase the actors and actresses instead of their […]
When Blade Runner came out way back in 1982 it didn’t make as much as people hoped. It being too far ahead of its time, especially with a dystopian setting, just didn’t fit in with the feel-good 80s. In addition to this, the pace of the movie was quite slow and it involved quite a bit of dialogue that required […]
Resurrection moved me to start writing this, the drama is that good, it’s that thought provoking. Resurrection is the number one scripted drama in the US, set in Arcadia, Missouri but a boy from there thought to have died thirty-two years ago, wakes up in the present at a rice field in China at the same young age of his […]
Some actors just cannot move away from their breakout movies. Leonardo DiCaprio is one of many stars who can’t seem to go beyond his role in Titanic. People still remember him as the young Jack Dawson who made an equally young Kate Winslet feel like she was flying. Unfortunately, I will be the first to say that I still carry […]
Like today’s cartoon Sponge Bob Square Pants, Daimos was just as popular in the seventies and eighties. Japanese robot cartoons were so popular they had toy robots, like Daimos, that even today can sell for P13,000. Daimos was plastered all over snack chip packages, and kids sang the theme song in Japanese. We students back then quoted the famous lead […]
