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It’s inevitable that the short film format will be one of the most anticipated entertainment fares not only among cineastes but ordinary filmgoers as well. After almost a century of full-length film’s dominance in the commercial market, shorts have found its niche, finally, though, relatively slowly.

It’s not only the Top 3 box-office Philippine movies in 2017 that will hit the screens in the 2018 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in Bucheon City, South Korea.

While the theme of this year’s Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival is “Wings of Vision,” the materials in it are indeed visionary and they can transport in the air the thoughts and ideas and feelings of each film, full-length or short. Cinemalaya is a breakthrough year in and year out with its respective entries mirroring and defining the moments in time …

The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival or simply BiFan in Bucheon City, South Korea is all set for its 22nd edition to be held on July 12 to 22, 2018.

By Ben Cal On the occasion of the 68th anniversary of the Korean War on Monday (June 25), former President Fidel V. Ramos, a veteran of the Korean War, recalled the  bravery and heroism of the Filipino soldiers fighting against all odds the combined Chinese and North Korean forces.

We admire award-winning actress Elizabeth Oropesa for publicly apologizing to fellow actress Azenith Briones over the pieces of jewelry brouhaha that created a stir among show biz denizens and the public alike. It takes guts to muster an apology whether one is guilty or not of a crime one is accused of.

Just when you start thinking how to report a rude trike driver to the authorities, in walks an olive-skinned gal with her dad in front of her and suddenly you’re struck…by stars and lightning.

The 66th Famas has a blurb—the new Famas.

By Ben Cal  As the nation marked with grief the first anniversary of the Marawi siege by pro-Islamic State Maute terrorists last May 23, journalist Benjie Liwanag recalled his daring coverage of the bloody fighting that lasted for five months, during which, he found himself in the line of fire a number of times, but prayers and faith in God saved his …

There is more to texts, subtexts and contexts of what Presidential Communications Group Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson when she refused to apologize to Kris Aquino for uploading a video clip of the late senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. being kissed by girls enplaned before his assassination in 1983 virtually juxtaposed with the visual of President Rodrigo Duterte kissing on lips a …