"One More Try" , a unique family drama film, Star Cinema offering to the 2012 MMFF

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“One More Try,” Star Cinema’s much-awaited top-caliber dramatic offering in the 2012 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) with the four of the country’s most sensual stars Angel Locsin, Angelica Panganiban, Zanjoe Marudo, and Dingdong Dantes.

This is an upcoming very unique family drama offering to the MMFF 2012. A romantic dramatic film will make this Christmas season even more hotter as they, which will hit theaters nationwide beginning December 25.

Under the direction of award-winning director Ruel S. Bayani, “One More Try” shares a brave plot that tackles about a loving single mother Grace (Angel) who is willing to sacrifice everything to save her ill son.

All seems well in Grace’s life, especially with the comfort of her son Botchok (Miguel Vergara) and boyfriend Tristan (Zanjoe) who is supporting her. But when Botchok’s rare blood condition becomes more severe, Grace is left with no other choice but to reconnect with Edward (Dingdong), Botchok’s biological father, an accomplished man married with a more successful power woman Jacqueline (Angelica).

All Grace asks from Edward is for him to help her save Botchok, their son. Edward is hesitant at first but Jacq gives him permission. However, such tedious process of curing Botchok starts to taint their happy relationships, for unwanted feelings in the past start to creep in. Until eventually all other options fail except only for one—Edward and Grace need to have another child to permanently cure Botchok and they need to do it the natural way.

In a situation where a life of an innocent child is at stake, can Grace, Edward, Tristan and Jacqueline sacrifice their personal feelings in order to cure Botchok? In this kind of pursuit, who will eventually win–Jacqueline who will go for a kill to save her faltering marriage with Edward or Grace, the devoted mother who will do anything to save her son even if it means compromising her relationship with the man who truly loves her?

This film also featured are Carmina Villaroel, Agot Isidro, Edward Mendez, and Ms. Gina Pareño.

Don’t miss the most dramatic film to conclude 2012, “One More Try,” which will be shown on cinemas nationwide starting December 25.

For more information and latest updates about “One More Try,” simply visit www.StarCinema.com.ph, http://facebook.com/StarCinema and http://twitter.com/StarCinema.

ONE MORE TRY Full Trailer

Just One Summer

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Just One Summer is romance-drama film directed by Mac Alejandre, starring one of the hottest Kapuso love teams in the generation Julie Anne San Jose and Elmo Magalona.

It features Joel Torre, Alice Dixson, Cherry Pie Picache, Buboy Garrovillo and Ms. Gloria Romero in a special role.

Just One Summer movie is with a simple story that shows good moral values. This is really a recommended for the whole family.  It is fun, entertaining without sex and violence. This gives lessons and happiness to all, and especially for the young people.

Just One Summer movie plot:

A rebellious, rich boy spends the summer with his father and his mistress while waiting for the annulment of his father and his mother's marriage. He despises his father and  has considered him long dead in his life.  During his stay for summer vacation, he gets to reunite with his childhood friend, a poor girl who lives near the father’s farm. She secretly offers to work for his father so she can save up for her enrollment, meanwhile deceiving her own father that she is a scholar. The two meet and comfort each other amidst their problems and they fall for each other as time goes on and as they get to know each other.

 “Just One Summer”is showing in theaters nationwide.  

The Lucky One

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A Marine travels to North Carolina after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.

U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) returns to North Carolina from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive , a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know. Learning her name is Beth (Taylor Schilling) and where she lives, he shows up at her door, and ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Despite her initial mistrust and the complications in her life, a romance develops between them, giving Logan hope that Beth could be much more than his good luck charm.

The Lucky One is the film adaption of Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name. Film stars Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling and Blythe Danner in lead roles and is directed by Scott Hicks. Writers are Will Fetters (screenplay)and Nicholas Sparks (novel). The film is scheduled to release April 20, 2012.

Snow White and the Huntsman 2012

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In the epic action-adventure 'Snow White and the Huntsman,' Kristen Stewart ('Twilight') plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Oscar winner Charlize Theron) who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the one girl threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, 'Thor') who was dispatched to kill her.

The Queen learns that Snow White, her step daughter, is the fairest in the land and will surpass her as the Ruler of the Kingdom. However the magic mirror told her that whenever she consumes Snow White’s heart she will live forever. While executing her plan, Snow White was able to escape into the Dark Forest. To capture her, the Queen hired a Huntsman to retrieve Snow White. As soon as he found Snow White he pitied on her and instead of killing her he taught her the art of war. With the Help of the Huntsman, seven dwarves and the Prince, who has been in love with Snow white for years, started a rebellion.

Sam Claflin ('Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides') joins the cast as the prince long enchanted by Snow White's beauty and power.

Snow White and the Huntsman is a drama , action, adventure, romance, science fiction and fantasy, directed by Rupert Sanders. 

"This Means War"

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Two top CIA operatives wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman.

Two CIA agents, Tuck and Frank who are also best friends, have been benched because someone's after them. Tuck is divorced with a son whom he's not close to and Frank is a ladies man. Tuck decides to try and find someone so he places his profile on a dating website. Lauren, a woman also looking for a guy sees tuck's profile and goes with him. She later bumps into Frank and he hits on her and she goes out with him. she's intrigued by both of them. When they learn that they're dating the same girl, they agree to let her choose. But both can't help but use their skills to keep tabs on her and each other. And also sabotage each others dates with her.

This Means War is a romantic comedy action film with stars Reese Witherspoon , Tom Hardy and Chris Pine.  They are the victims of a love triangle -  two CIA agents and best friends (Pine and Hardy) discover that they are dating the same woman (Witherspoon). The film written by Timothy Dowling, screenplay by Simon Kinverg and directed by McG. This director, McG, the one-named former record producer and music video-maker who previously brought you “Charlie’s Angels,” “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” and “Terminator Salvation.”

The Vow

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Can once in a lifetime find a second chance?

The Vow is the story of a newlywed couple recovers from a car accident that puts the wife in a coma. Waking up with severe memory loss, her husband endeavors to win her heart again.

Paige and Leo (Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum) are a happy newlywed couple whose lives are changed by a car accident that puts Paige in a coma. Waking up with severe memory loss, Paige has no memory of Leo, a confusing relationship with her parents (Sam Neill and Jessica Lange), and an ex-fiancé (Scott Speedman) she may still have feelings for. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.

THE VOW,   based on a true love story is this Valentine season's ultimate romantic movie opens nationwide on February 10.

Starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams, Sam Neill, Scott Speedman and Jessica Lange.

The Vow is directed by Michael Sucsy,  story by Stuart Sender. Screenplay byAbby Kohn & Marc Silverstein and Jason Katims and produced by Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman and Paul Taublieb.

These two stars  are the veteran of romantic tearjerkers especially Channing Tatum  in "Dear John" and Rachel McAdams  in "The Notebook." These movies are my favorite romance love movies. And here, The Vow will be the love movie to watch this Valentines! ♥♥♥

Here are some romantic movie quotes:

Leo:  I vow to love you, and no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find a way back to each other.

Leo :  Life's all about moments of impact, and how they change our lives forever. But what if one day you could no longer remember any of them?

Paige :  Coming home to a life I don't know, that's a lot to take in.

Paige: "I vow to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love

demands. To speak when words are needed and to share the silence when they're not, and to live within the warmth of your heart -- and always call it home."

Leo: "I vow to seriously love you, in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love."

Paige: "I hope one day I can love the way that you love me."

Leo: "You figured it out once -- you'll do it again."

Check this : http://www.thevow-movie.net/

Desire, Ennui, Anxiety: Marcel Antonio at Yuchengco Museum, Feb 6 to 25,2012

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In July of 2010, the poet V.I.S. de Veyra posted a blog essay on the art of Marcel Antonio titled “Blue Funk’d Stories: The Expanding Art of Marcel Antonio” (read at http://partycrashingangle.blogspot.com/2010/07/blue-funked-silent-stories-expanding_26.html) and coined the phrase-tag Blue Funk Erotica for Antonio’s art. 

De Veyra described Blue Funk Erotica as 

1) unsmiling faces-derived figurative drama (primarily portraiture, then), 

2) replete of appropriations or art-historical quotes, 

3) suggestive (but only suggestive) of a narrative, 

4) quasi-rebellious towards rigid allusions and painting titles’ guidance, 

5) unpainterly expressionist, 6) of an in-a-trance mood as against a happy one, and 

7) conscriptive of the painting viewer as peeper. 

“This erotica should stay around and keep us entranced,” the poet-critic wrote, “being not so much one that tickles the groin as a kind that promotes the understanding that every face, gesture, object, color, and shape is a secret sex object and clandestine true story waiting to be told.” But also debunking a previous simplistic tag on Antonio’s art as “narrative expressionist,” de Veyra wrote: “In Antonio’s case, his blue funkism's ‘de-expression’, or ‘dis-expression’ and narrative confusion through the mannerisms of narrative imagery and titling, seems to be a produce of a Russian Formalist narrative bent to ‘defamiliarize’ images and shapes towards a higher enigma. Thus his refusal to ‘express’.”

The above mentioned blog started a dialogue between Antonio’s art as well as intent (of unintent) and de Veyra’s reading, culminating in a late-2011 collection titled “Desire, Ennui, Anxiety” which shall be shown this coming Feb 6 to 25 at the Yuchengco Museum.

This title for Antonio’s new series does not so much signal a change in his art’s direction as clarify where de Veyra’s reading is right and where it needs to be tweaked. For instance, while de Veyra opts for a Barthesian “variety of narrative possibilities,” Antonio’s pragmatic knowledge of his audience allows/welcomes two basic approaches to his art.

The one approach favours rigid symbolist readings, especially as Antonio is himself attracted to the “monumental” (Antonio’s term) figure common among utopian-art compositions (of Wagnerian glorifications, classical idealism, Nazi art, Stalinist totalitarian art, socialist realism, etc.) as well as in advertising art or the idealizations of soft porn.

But, for the other approach, Antonio acknowledges that de Veyra is right about his—Antonio’s—own efforts to frustrate, so to speak, all symbolist and narrative approaches, via experimentations with juxtapositions/relations and eclectic allusions. These experimentations, appropriations, and art-history quotes result in a dehumanized atmosphere, involving such stuff as machine esthetics and the usual facial expressions of ennui and boredom, all moving towards Antonio’s intended postmodernist multiplicity of meanings. But the final result on each single canvas is an invite to a pseudo-narrative half-aware of this pseudo-ness, welcoming while parodying the various cultural and moral significations possible to professional and popular semiotics.

In this sense, Antonio’s art would be self-described as anxious about the unknown, desirous of knowledge as a matter of course but likewise celebrating the ennui of knowledge’s elusivity, even the charm of that ennui itself alone. Ennui as both springboard and object of desire, then, visually fulfilled or illustrated on an Antonio-esque drama field.

A final stamp to this anti-narrative effort to “recover the sensation of life” (Victor Shklovsky) is the artist’s devotion to the coloration of Diego Velázquez or Chagall as well as the latent abstract geometrics beneath all his pseudo-narrative stagings.

We would like to invite people or media to witnesses the Marcel Antonio art work this coming Feb 6 2012 6pm for the opening for lunching on cocktail.V.I.S. de Veyra joins Antonio in this exhibit with fourteen new poems printed in the exhibition catalogue.

For more information about the show, contact the 

Yuchengco Museum, 

2/F RCBC Plaza, cor. Ayala and Sen. Gil J. Puyat Aves.

Makati City, Philippines 1200

or 

Galleria Quattrocento

3rd Floor Glorietta 4 Art Space

Glorietta 4, Ayala Center

Barangay San Lorenzo

Makati City 

Telephone: [632] 818-5939 // [632] 519-7221;

Mobile #: 0917-8911322;

Email: galleria.quattrocento@gmail.com

Website: http://philpaintings.com/)

New Year's Eve (2011) movie

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"New Year's Eve" celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in different stories  and promises of New York City on the most enjoyable night of the year.

It is the  romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall.  It depicts a series of holiday vignettes of the state of several romances.The lives of several couples and singles intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.

Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer) plays a secretary who realizes she's got a lot of unresolved New Year's resolutions. Time to make a list, check it twice and get cracking. Fortunately it's the handsome (and much younger) Paul (Zac Efron) to the rescue. 

Directed by         Garry Marshall

Produced by       Mike Karz, Wayne Allan Rice, Garry Marshall

Written by          Katherine Fugate

Cast:

Halle Berry

Jessica Biel

Jon Bon Jovi

Abigail Breslin

Chris "Ludacris" Bridges

Robert De Niro

Josh Duhamel

Zac Efron

Héctor Elizondo

Katherine Heigl

Ashton Kutcher

Seth Meyers

Lea Michele

Sarah Jessica Parker

Michelle Pfeiffer

Til Schweiger

Hilary Swank

Sofía Vergara

Here are my favorite quotations from the movie.

It only happens once a year: New Year's Eve. It's a time when hopeless can be romantic, and a resolution can become a revelation. And when one night can change everything.

Hailey: I want to go to Times Square tonight.

Kim: That's highly doubtful.

Hailey: You know I'm fifteen mom! This is not a training bra!

Kim: And this is not girls gone wild!

Randy: New Year's is the worst night of all to go out. People who don't drink or party all year suddenly going all Kanye on you...

Ingrid: My New Year's resolutions: If you can make these come true by midnight, you get these...

Tess: My water just broke!

Griffin: All of it?

Jensen: You look beautiful

Laura: I've been splotting that slap for years. It wasn't nearly as satisfying as I thought it would be. That was closer.

Claire: This is the biggest night of my career and if I screw this up...

Brendan: You won't.

Stan Harris: Nothing beats New York on New Year's Eve.

Grandpa Jed: So you went out for a slice of pizza, right? And you may have just run into the one. You know what that is?

Sam: Insanity?

Grandpa Jed: Serendipity. You don't mess with serendipity.