In celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Friendship between Korea and the Philippines, the Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines proudly presents the 2024 Korean Film Festival, titled “Chingu Kita!”, which translates to “You are my friend.”    This year’s festival, with its “Friendship” theme, showcases five compelling films exploring the many facets of friendship. From September 27 to 29, 2024, the free screenings will be held at SM Mall of Asia, SM City Baguio, SM Seaside City Cebu, and SM City Davao.   The festival lineup includes the 44th Blue Dragon Film Awards’ Best Film, Smugglers (2023), an action-packed...

  Make room for new emotions when the top animated movie of all time, Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2, makes its streaming debut on Disney+ September 25.   Certified-Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes™ and celebrated by critics as “absolute perfection, hilarious” (Jazz Tangcay, Variety) and “an unforgettable experience” (Landon Johnson, Awards Watch), the highly anticipated heartwarming sequel has already proven to be a blockbuster smash hit. Inside Out 2 is the highest-grossing animated film of all time, the fastest animated film to reach $1 billion globally and currently the 8th highest grossing film in global box office history.    Disney...

Spanning a career of twenty years, director Chookiat “Matthew” Savkeerakul is back with his most ambitious film yet with the sci-fi epic, “Taklee Genesis x Worlds Collide.” “Our time and our daily life—do they really exist? Are we human beings, flesh and blood, biological masses or in fact reflections of something? These thoughts have been inspiring me for a long time and I’ve been looking for an opportunity to turn them into a film,” Savkeerakul explains his inspiration for the film.     Throughout his career, Savkeerakul has made films that are considered Thai cinema milestones. His 2007 romance film...

“We’re Transformers! We are Transformers!” shouts out an excited B-127, voiced by Keegan-Michael Key in Transformers One, the first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie.   Voicing Bumblebee is an honor for Key, especially because in previous Transformers movies, the fan favorite robot didn’t have a voice. “I really enjoyed being able to give Bumblebee a voice. Over the last few movies he speaks through the radio inside the Volkswagen, which I thought was so cool,” says Key. “But now we get to imbue him with personality through his voice and I was really honored that I got the opportunity to do...

The wait is almost over as the big-screen adaptation of one of the most beloved and enduring Broadway musicals, “Wicked,” is almost here. Take a look at the brand new trailer as we journey along with Elphaba(Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda(Ariana Grande) as students in Shiz University.     “Wicked” is the story of the witches of Oz when they meet as students at Shiz University. Elphaba, who stands out because of her green skin, and Glinda, a popular and ambitious woman, forge an unlikely yet profound friendship. A journey across the land of Oz and an encounter with The Wonderful...