Human trafficking has been an ailment of society since forever it seems some times, with the stories we occasionally hear on the news reminding us that the incidents can easily happen as close to us as possible. Angelo Reyes presents a movie based on the real life story of Tanya, a girl how felt victim to trafficking, that highlights the aforementioned concept, through a Filipino prism that adds another level to the short.
“Groomed” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
The film begins with a concerned mother fighting with her daughter, teenager Maria, over the messages she has been sending through her phone to Ricardo, a man in his 30s. The distance between the two is evident as the mother is speaking mostly in Filipino, while the daughter is replying in English, but is when cursing and a slap become a factor, than the gap becomes unbridgeable,...
“Groomed” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
The film begins with a concerned mother fighting with her daughter, teenager Maria, over the messages she has been sending through her phone to Ricardo, a man in his 30s. The distance between the two is evident as the mother is speaking mostly in Filipino, while the daughter is replying in English, but is when cursing and a slap become a factor, than the gap becomes unbridgeable,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Forget the ‘famous book’ doldrums — this exciting seagoing drama will take your head off. Criminally unseen and unheralded, Allied Artists’ classic is an impressive feat by director-co-screenwriter and star Peter Ustinov. It introduced Terence Stamp and provided Robert Ryan with a deserved career highlight.
Billy Budd
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1962 / B&W / 2:35 widescreen / 123 min. / Street Date January 3, 2018 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers, John Neville, David McCallum, Ronald Lewis, Robert Brown, John Meillon, Niall MacGinnis, Terence Stamp.
Cinematography: Robert Krasker
Film Editor: Jack Harris
Original Music: Antony Hopkins
Written by Peter Ustinov, DeWitt Bodeen from the play by Louis O. Coxe, Robert H. Chapman from the novel Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville
Produced by A. Ronald Lubin, Peter Ustinov
Directed by Peter Ustinov
Talk about a book that works like gangbusters… When Warners’ first DVD came out in 2007 I found out...
Billy Budd
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1962 / B&W / 2:35 widescreen / 123 min. / Street Date January 3, 2018 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers, John Neville, David McCallum, Ronald Lewis, Robert Brown, John Meillon, Niall MacGinnis, Terence Stamp.
Cinematography: Robert Krasker
Film Editor: Jack Harris
Original Music: Antony Hopkins
Written by Peter Ustinov, DeWitt Bodeen from the play by Louis O. Coxe, Robert H. Chapman from the novel Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville
Produced by A. Ronald Lubin, Peter Ustinov
Directed by Peter Ustinov
Talk about a book that works like gangbusters… When Warners’ first DVD came out in 2007 I found out...
- 7/14/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The U.S. Navy Seal killed during an Isis attack in Iraq on Tuesday has been identified as Phoenix-native Charlie Keating IV - the grandson of notorious financier Charles Keating Jr.. Keating IV was killed while assisting Kurdish forces outside of Mosul, a city in northern Iraq completely ruled and occupied by Isis, according to NBC News. The 31-year-old's death marks the third American service member to be killed in direct combat since U.S. forces began fighting Isis. Army Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler, a member of Delta Force, was killed during a raid on an Isis compound last October,...
- 5/4/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
The U.S. Navy Seal killed during an Isis attack in Iraq on Tuesday has been identified as Phoenix-native Charlie Keating IV - the grandson of notorious financier Charles Keating Jr.. Keating IV was killed while assisting Kurdish forces outside of Mosul, a city in northern Iraq completely ruled and occupied by Isis, according to NBC News. The 31-year-old's death marks the third American service member to be killed in direct combat since U.S. forces began fighting Isis. Army Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler, a member of Delta Force, was killed during a raid on an Isis compound last October,...
- 5/4/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
Rachelle Friedman Chapman sums up her recent baby shower this way: "There was lots of pink and I loved it." The bubbly 29-year-old is about to become a mom to a baby girl, due in April - four years after she was paralyzed from the neck down in a freak accident at her bachelorette party, when one of her bridesmaids playfully pushed her in the pool. Chapman revealed to People in June that she and her husband, Chris, 32, who married a year after the accident, were trying to get pregnant with the help of a surrogate. Doctors told Rachelle pregnancy...
- 3/7/2015
- by Michelle Boudin, @michelleboudin
- PEOPLE.com
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