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WILL FERRELL (Step Brothers, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby) stars as has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, a man with no weapons, few skills and questionable smarts who must survive an alternate universe full of marauding dinosaurs and fantastic creatures from beyond our world.  Marshall has been sucked through a space-time vortex to a place of spectacular sights and super-scaled comedy known as the Land of the Lost which is due ion Metro Manila theaters on September 2.
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In this age of virtual networking, nothing still beats the corporeal when it comes to bagging the best of times with our best friends.  It is all these doing and undoing of things taboo during adolescent years that makes high school the most unparalleled times for most, if not all.  Such is the case in the latest comedy “I Love You Beth Cooper” where up and coming young actor Jack Carpenter tackles basic teen issues with sheer talent under the magical hands of director Chris Columbus, who directed the first Harry Potter films – “Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone,” “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and produced the third “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”
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Last August 11, 2009, award-winning, avant-garde artist, top-selling, phenomenal, fashion icon of our time, Lady Gaga performed live at the Araneta Coliseum that marked the tipping point of a new dawn in pop culture that only Lady Gaga can infuse in the Philippines. Her day started with a controversial entrance to Philippine shores that only she could pull-off. She arrived wearing a silver sequined, red gemmed Vivienne Westwood bikini ensemble that she put together herself. Her first steps immediately began a ruckus filled with anticipation and excitement as millions of Filipinos stayed glued to what Lady Gaga will do in conjunction to making her concert and her album, The Fame known.
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In Touchstone Pictures’ new sci-fi thriller “Surrogates,” people are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates—sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. These robots are fit, good looking, remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume the people’s life roles—enabling the latter to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes.  It’s an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don’t exist.
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On this week’s TALK ASIA CNN’s Anna Coren speaks with the 2009 Best Director at Cannes, Brillante Mendoza. Filmed in his Manila studio and on set, he talks about receiving the prestigious Cannes award and how his winning film “Kinatay” has struggled with censorship issues in his home country the Philippines. He also explains why he feels bringing up his adopted daughter Angelica is a greater achievement than winning at Cannes.
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Beyonce Knowles (“Dreamgirls”) has an accomplished and steadily growing acting resume, but her latest, Columbia Pictures’ erotic thriller “Obsessed” marks a new direction for the performer.  “This was definitely different for me,” Knowles says.  “This is a psychological thriller, but it’s not just any thriller.  It’s very smart and not typical.”
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by Oliver Oliveros,www.BroadwayWorld.com

“Imelda,” a new bio-musical that retells the rise and fall ofImelda Marcos – a highly controversial figure in Philippine politics, widow of erstwhile dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and owner of over 3,000 pairs of shoes – boasts an all-Filipino cast led by Jaygee Macapugay as Imelda, andMel Sagrado Maghuyop as Ferdinand.

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre (New York) collaborates with East West Players (EWP Los Angeles) to bring “Imelda” Off-Broadway, directed by Tim Dangwho also directed the show’s world premiere in L.A., with special performances from September 22 to October 18, 2009 at the Julia Miles Theater, 424 W 55th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues. Opening night is Wednesday, September 30 at 7 p.m.

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“Bato-Bato Sa Dagat”

Jay Taruc’s I-Witness Documentary
Airing Date: August 17, 2009

The production of hollow blocks has been a profitable business for two neighboring towns in Leyte for the past two decades. Buyers from all places flock to San Rafael and San Jose just to buy their product. Residents here claim they have the sturdiest hollow blocks because of the ingredients that they use — black sand and a special variety of pebble that locals call ormegon.
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