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Inquirer EntertainmentPhilippines‘Laya’ to hold world premiere at Women and the World Int’l Film Festival in London Andrea Brillantes and JC Santos starrer “Laya” is set to make its world premiere at the 2026 Women and the World International Film Festival (WWIFF) in London as part of the Feature Fiction…

11.06

Inquirer EntertainmentPhilippinesWhat’s next for Maris Racal after her 3 Best Actress awards After her three consecutive Best Actress awards for her coming-of-age movie “Sunshine,” Maris Racal is not about to rest on her laurels.

11.06

Inquirer EntertainmentPhilippinesWATCH: Andrea Brillantes, JC Santos confront old wounds in ‘Laya’ trailer Rein Entertainment has unveiled the official trailer for psychological thriller “Laya,” featuring Andrea Brillantes and JC Santos navigating a complicated friendship marked by secrets and unexpected…

11.05

Inquirer EntertainmentPhilippines‘Pee Mak’ PH adaptation reaches P100 million in total gross The Philippine adaptation of the hit Thai horror-comedy film “Pee Mak” surpassed the P100-million mark in ticket sales, 19 days after it premiered in local cinemas.

11.05

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo