Reviews

Close your history textbooks. In Magellan, Lav Diaz deconstructs the failures of its titular character as an explorer and wrestles with hidden possibilities from various historical accounts

War of the Worlds, Amazon Prime Studio’s disastrous adaptation of H.G. Wells’ sci-fi classic, is simply a glorified Amazon ad

In Sunshine, director Antoinette Jadaone’s latest drama, Maris Racal captures the quiet terrors of being a young Filipino Catholic woman

Although Mikhail Red has long experimented with horror, his latest feature ‘Lilim’ sees the acclaimed director making bolder storytelling choices that pay off with striking results

Superman wields Silver Age comic book absurdity like a weapon, taking the silliness and hopefulness of the Man of Steel and giving us a hero that makes us believe in choosing to do good