The 26th French Film Festival Makes It Iconic with the Latest Box Office Hits and More

Brimming with a selection of must-watch French movies that offer fresh perspectives, twists and turns, literary adaptations, and advocacies at the SM Mall of Asia and SM Megamall cinemas.

Get ready to paint the city blue, red, and white as the French Film Festival makes it iconic and celebrates 26 years of bringing some of the best contemporary movies from France to the Filipino audience.

The French Embassy in the Philippines and Micronesia, in partnership with SM Supermalls and SM Cinema, stages the 26th French Film Festival from November 25 to December 3. A suite of about 21 French feature films will be shown simultaneously at SM Mall of Asia and SM Megamall, with a selection of new releases, some of the biggest box office hits of the year, and a few classics featuring icons of French cinema.

In a country that pioneered cinema in Asia, film is perhaps the most suitable medium to promote cultural understanding in the Philippines. Through the moving images, the values and traditions of society are conveyed and appreciated by the public, allowing them to identify or at least react to situations that may be shared by different people across the globe.

SM Cinema culminates the Full Throttle Hobbs and Shaw car displays with car meet

The Fast and Furious franchise featured many memorable scenes and super cars were definitely an important of the action! With the release of the first standalone Fast & Furious movie, Hobbs & Shaw, SM Cinema gathered car enthusiasts and brought the Fast and Furious movies from reel to real life with the Hobbs & Shaw Full Throttle Car Meet.

The Car Meet held at the NU Carpark at the Mall of Asia complex is inspired by the Fast and Furious films and is reminiscent of the third movie in the franchise, Tokyo Drift. In partnership with Stance Pilipinas and Car Porn Racing, members of the group founded by car enthusiast, Angie King, got to showcase their beloved cars around the complex for everyone to admire.

SM Cinema takes Spider-Man from reel to real with Ultimate Spidey Fan Event

After millions of fans were left thrilled and gratified with the events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home gives fans the satisfaction of seeing the Marvel cinematic universe post-Avengers from the point of view of Peter Parker as he takes on greater responsibilities.

To further heighten the anticipation for the release of Spider-Man: Far From Home, SM Cinema treated Spider-Man fans to a fun-filled weekend with the Ultimate Spidey Fan Event at SM Mall of Asia Atrium from June 28 to July 3.

SM Cinema features heroes in movies with “A Dog’s Way Home”, “Alita: Battle Angel” and “Dragon Ball Super: Broly”!

SM Cinema features the extraordinary adventures of a different kind of heroes in three upcoming movies: “A Dog’s Way Home”, “Alita: Battle Angel” and “Dragon Ball Super: Broly”!

From the writer of the best-selling book, A Dog’s Purpose, W. Bruce Cameron comes back with another dog life story that will make you cry again.

The film, A Dog’s Way Home, adapted from the novel with the same title, highlights the adventures of the dog named Bella (voiced by Bryce Howard Dallas) when she was accidentally separated from her owner, Lucas (Jonah Haeur-King). On her 400-mile journey, witness how Bella find her way back home and become a hero in her own way.

SM Cinema Assembles Marvel Fans for Avengers: Infinity War

“We’re ready for you Avengers!” Donned in their mightiest Avengers-inspired outfits, the lucky fans got to greet Nebula (Karen Gillan), Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and director Joe Russo via live video conference straight from Singapore.

“All of you are fantastic, that reception, the noise, the energy in that room, we may be looking at a TV Screen which is a bit cold but it properly warms up when you guys are on it so thank you." – Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch)

Sorry I Don't Like This Dorm...

As much as I am very considerate for movie premiere nights I just felt I wasted so much time with delays unnecessary speeches and worst is uber-cliched film where the supporting actors acts better than the main characters. Dorm Boys was a re-adaptation from the movie Dormitoryo (Buhay Estudyante) made decades ago. I have not seen the original but I don't compare the past and present since the movie experience and detail is what I consider the most. 

Even though I just watched The Dark Knight Returns and The Healing, I still believe that even with independent movies and small budget films can actually par with them. However this would be given if the elements and acting would be exceptional. The problem with the movie is that there are too much pretty faces with weak characterizations which makes  it "unbalanced" and the characters also left me confused  what their real personalities are. The plot and cinematography is what I can say are OK with the purpose of leaving a message to the students of today but the overall feel made me irk. My friends actually left early because they don't liked it, but for the sake of fair judgement I stayed to see if it would turn better. The one and only scene that I liked was the confrontation between father and son.

The aim of the movie was to make the viewers think about the consequences of the unruly ways of college student life (cheating, drinking, women, etc), but as a student myself, I was not that moved even I do see myself in those situations, probably because the resolution in the end was not clear. There were also too many scenes where overacting is too much and unbearable for me. Plus it felt like I was not in a theater with so much noise from the cast who was there, but lets give it to them since its their movie (I also had these same senarios with other movies too). Sorry but in the end yung kalokohan yung natandaan ko not the moral.