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Johnny Delgado, 1948 - 2009 Juan Marasigan Feleo was born on February 29, a leap-year child, the son of director Ben Feleo and Victorina Marasigan. He had taken up banking and finance in the University of Santo Tomas; his first acting role was in his father's Sa Manlulupig, Di Ka Pasisiil ( ...

Up, up, and away Jeff Balsmeyer's Danny Deckchair (2003) rings one unusual variation on the meet-cute rom-com routine--instead of bumping into each other, or entangling each others' dog leashes, or finding each other through the internet, Danny Morgan (Rhys Ifans) by means of an accident ...

Tarantino's talkathon Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a clever melange of violence, suspense, slapstick, wit, movie references both arthouse and grindhouse, talk, talk, more talk, even more talk; seems to me he is more in love than ever with the sound of his own words coming out ...

Brillante Mendoza's Serbis Did I mention that almost nobody I talked to in the festival liked Kore-eda's Air Doll , not even David Bordwell , who's an admirer of the director? Ah well. Bordwell finds the execution "overcute" and "underdeveloped," but what's "overcute," anyway? The film ...