Join The Chase In Searchlight Pictures’ Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come, Streaming On Disney+ July 2

Back for an even bloodier game of cat and mouse, Searchlight Pictures’ Ready or Not 2: Here I Come streams July 2 on Disney+ Philippines.

“A Bloody Good Time” – Glenn Garner, Deadline

Ready or Not ended with an image that felt definitive and unsettling: Grace, bloodied but standing. Alive. Alone. And irreversibly changed by what she survived. For directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, that image wasn’t an endpoint — it was a dare: double or nothing. Eagerly embraced by both fans and critics, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come reached a piping Verified Hot 89% Popcornmeter score on Rotten Tomatoes® and was chosen as a New York Times Critic’s Pick. As many have remarked, the sequel “gives the audience exactly what they’re looking for" (Lyvie Smith, Inverse).

This isn’t just a sequel. It’s higher stakes, more blood, more chaos, and more heart — everything amplified. What once appeared to be a single family’s ritual is revealed as part of a broader international system: multiple families, competing hierarchies, and shared beliefs bound together by power, entitlement, and consequence. Searchlight Pictures cordially invites you to join our bloodied bride in her fight for survival once more. 

Academy Award-nominated "A Real Pain" opens January 29, exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas

Ayala Malls Cinemas exclusively brings another award-winning film to Philippine cinemas with “A Real Pain,” the Jesse Eisenberg-directed comedy-drama that has been racking up multiple accolades this awards season, opening January 29.  

Written and directed by Eisenberg, the movie stars Eisenberg, Jennifer Grey, Will Sharpe, and Kieran Culkin, who won the Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor award for his performance in the film. Besides the Golden Globes, other accolades received by “A Real Pain” include nominations for the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA), Screen Actors Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards and the recently announced Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for Culkin and Best Original Screenplay for Eisenberg. “A Real Pain,” co-produced by Emma Stone’s Fruit Tree (“Poor Things,” “I Saw the TV Glow”), is part of Ayala Malls Cinemas’ lineup of critically acclaimed awards-season films, which this year also includes “Anora.”  

REVIEW: A Real Pain

Written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg, this comedic drama has a simple plot of cousins going on a tour to Poland to see where she grew up and survived the holocaust.  With an intimate group going through different historical spots, the fact and brutal history of those day was indeed a very sensitive topic to depict in film. However, they did give justice on how to show them without giving way to their own story.

It was good that they kept the group small yet each having unique charm and stories, yet it also paves way for the cousins David and Benjie (Jesse & Kieran) to shine in times of tension and calmness. Both show polar opposite personalities which causes conflict and mishaps in their trip.

Yet we also see the bond between family which leads them to forgive and connect with each other. There is also the feeling on how moving the remnants of the genocide was, even with silence speaks out the horrors of those days and should never happen again.

"Downhill" Exclusive at Ayala Malls Cinemas Starting Feb 12

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (TV’s “Veep”) and Will Ferrell star in the Sundance Film Festival hit comedy Searchlight Pictures’ “Downhill” from the Oscar-winning co-writers of “The Descendants. 

To be shown exclusively at selected Ayala Malls Cinemas starting February 12, “Downhill” tells the story of a married couple thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other after barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps.

(Watch the film’s trailer at https://youtu.be/AY5SrKf_2ic.)

Directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash from a screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, and Faxon & Rash; Searchlight Pictures’ “Downhill” also stars Zach Woods, Zoë Chao, Miranda Otto and Kristofer Hivju. It is inspired by the acclaimed 2014 Swedish film “Force Majeure.”