One of Year's Best Films, "Arrival" Holds Sneak Previews Feb 6 & 7

Nerdist calls it, “The smartest blockbuster since The Dark Knight,” while NY Magazine describes it as “An eerie, tantalizing, altogether superb puzzler.”

The subject of these praises is Columbia Pictures’ Arrival – the critically acclaimed film that's up for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director and Adapted Screenplay.

And now, Philippine audiences can catch it in sneak previews on Monday and Tuesday, February 6 and 7 in selected cinemas everywhere. Tickets will be at regular admission prices. (Check your favorite cinema for details).

Arrival is a provocative science fiction thriller from acclaimed director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Prisoners, upcoming Blade Runner 2049). When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team - lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) - are brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers – and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.

Keanu Reeves Reloads Guns And Ammo In “JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2”

Keanu Reeves suits up and reloads as the legendary and untouchable assassin in “John Wick: Chapter 2” following the 2014 hit of the same title.

Guns and ammos are relit in the high-octane action “John Wick: Chapter 2” where John Wick is brought back from retirement the second time.  After unleashing mayhem on the criminals who killed his dog, retired super assassin John Wick retrieves his beloved 1969 Mustang from the Russian mobsters who stole it, only to be pursued in a spectacular high-speed car chase through crowded New York City streets. Returning home, John’s plans to resume a quiet civilian life are cut short when Italian gangster Santino D’Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio)  shows up on his doorstep with a gold “marker” compelling him to repay past favors. Ordered by Winston (Ian McShane), kingpin of secret assassin society The Continental, to respect the organization’s ancient code, John reluctantly accepts the assignment to take out Santino’s own sister, Gianna (Claudia Gerini), the ruthless capo atop the Italian Camorra crime syndicate.

Ayala Malls Cinemas' SURESEATS.COM Advances Via Globe Telecom

L-R): Amir Precilla - General Manager of Ayala Malls Cinemas;
 Rowena Tomeldan - Head of Operations and Support Services,
 Ayala Commercial Business Group; Jose Emmanuel Jalandoni
 - Group Head, Commercial Business, Ayala Land Offices,
 Hotels and Resorts, ALI Capital;
Ernest Cu - President & CEO of Globe Telecom;
 Ruby Chiong VP and CFO of Ayala Commercial Business Group and;
 Glenn Estrella - VP of Globe Telecom's Digital Ventures

Ayala Land, Inc. and Globe Telecom, Inc. recently signed a partnership for the development of Ayala Malls Cinemas’ online movie ticketing site, www.sureseats.com.  With this joint endeavor, Ayala Malls Cinemas’ SureSeats will be more up-to-date and user-friendly as moviegoers navigate to book the most anticipated films and choose their preferred seats.  Globe’s technological advancement will help create a wonderful experience as more exciting features will be added soon at Ayala Malls Cinemas’ SureSeats.

Ayala Malls Cinemas’ Sureseats.com was first launched to the public last 2001 and is the pioneer in online ticket reservation and purchase for movie tickets.  Experience watching at its best at Ayala Malls Cinemas.

Fox Philippines Presents Strong Program Lineup With Hit Show Premieres This February

February proves to be an extremely exciting month for FOX Philippines as the channel announces the premiere of several hit US television series. Several FOX shows are returning to the channel in February, including The Walking Dead, Billions, and WWE’s wrestling programs, while new shows Legion and 24: Legacy are set to bring more prestige to an already strong lineup. To promote this huge boost in programming, FOX is teaming up with Philippine escape room game Breakout to host an experience called FOXtreme Breakout, which will bring elements of these shows closer to viewers in a unique escape room challenge that will run from February 9 to 12 at Uptown Mall in Bonifacio Global City.

Alodia & Ashley Gosiengfiao Take Part in "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter"

Popular influencers and cosplaying sisters Alodia and Ashley Gosiengfiao held a special private screening of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter with their friends recently at the Columbia Pictures Preview Room to celebrate their participation in the film's production.

The sisters were among loyal Resident Evil fans from various countries of the world who were invited by the filmmakers to play ass-kicking zombies out to infect Milla Jovovich's Alice and her team, the only remaining survivors of the undead apocalypse.

James Franco's 7 Smart Ways To Live In Today's Highly-Wired Landscape In “WHY HIM?”

James Franco stars as Silicon Valley billionaire Laird Mayhew, a self-made young man whose life was spent writing codes and designing apps, leaving him clueless about how to read a room and appropriately modulate his behavior in the uproarious R-rated family comedy “Why Him?”

Laird’s social skills are completely acceptable to his girlfriend Stephanie (Zoey Deutch) and to the millennial circle he belongs, but does not sit well with Stephanie’s dad, Ned (Bryan Cranston).  Ned, a small-town father, owner of a struggling mid-sized printing business in Michigan, is complete opposites with Laird who is making billions in the digital realm.

Kristen Stewart Stars In “PERSONAL SHOPPER”

Kristen Stewart stars in the hair-raising horror drama “Personal Shopper” as an American in Paris working as a model’s assistant while trying to contact the spirit of her dead twin brother. 

The film’s director, Oliver Assayas won as Best Director for his work in the film in last year’s Cannes Film Festival.  From the same festival within the same year that Philippine’s Jaclyn Jose also won as Best Actress for her role in “Ma’Rosa.”

“HOME SWEETIE HOME” Celebrates 3 Years of Teaching Couple Lessons On Marriage and Family

For three years now, Romeo and Julie of “Home Sweetie Home” have been teaching couples how to deal with the many struggles that come with married life.

From managing finances, making decisions in the household, and now raising a child, the two mirror what many couples go through and how family will always be first in the hearts and minds of Filipinos.

Having this opportunity to influence viewers is one of the reasons why lead star John Lloyd Cruz enjoys portraying his character Romeo.

HISTORY’S GREATEST “HIDDEN FIGURES” BEHIND THE APOLLO MISSIONS

Everyone knows about the Apollo missions.  We can all immediately list the bold male astronauts who took those first giant steps for humankind in space:  John Glenn, Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong.  Yet, remarkably, Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson’s are names not taught in school or even known to most people -- even though their daring, smarts and powerful roles as NASA’s ingenious “human computers” were indispensable to advances that allowed for human space flight.  These women are the unsung and unlikely heroes of the space race –female mathematicians who blazed multiple trails, trails towards greater diversity in science, equality in America, for human mathematical achievement and to launch John Glenn into mesmerizing orbit at more than 17, 000 miles per hour as he circled three times around the globe in space.  

Lucas Till Befriends Mysterious Creature in "Monster Trucks"

Known wordwide as Havok in X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Apocalypse, Lucas Till now headlines Paramount Pictures' new family adventure Monster Trucks.

Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp (Till), a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.