Jason Paul Laxamana’s Hold Me Close (2024) is a strange, baffling film. It’s as uncommitted as dull, trying to be unpredictable while landing flat. There’s no energy or rhythm, just a bland reiteration of some hokey intuition twisted into a comment on fate and tragedy. Even as the actors insert conviction, the script hopscotches from one contrived intimacy to another family trauma in the most unconvincing manner. There’s no reason for anyone to give this a shot. It’s the lamest romantic tragedy that is conceivable, relying on twists that make no sense or have any plausible build-up.
Hold Me Close (2024) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:
Originally Filipino, Woody (Carlo Aquino) is always on the move, never quite settling anywhere for too long. He avoids and skirts pain, fleeing for newer shores where he thinks he might not have to deal with his demons. He has travelled the world,...
Hold Me Close (2024) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:
Originally Filipino, Woody (Carlo Aquino) is always on the move, never quite settling anywhere for too long. He avoids and skirts pain, fleeing for newer shores where he thinks he might not have to deal with his demons. He has travelled the world,...
- 5/22/2025
- by Debanjan Dhar
- High on Films
After notching box office successes with Rewind and A Very Good Girl, Abs-cbn has produced another hit: Un/Happy For You.
In its opening five days, the romance film has grossed 150M Philippine pesos ($2.65M), with over 450,000 admissions.
The film will open across the U.S. and Canada on August 23 and in Australia on August 22. Un/Happy For You has also secured theatrical releases in New Zealand, the U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Italy, Cambodia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Malta.
Produced by Abs-cbn Studios, Star Cinema and Viva Films, the film stars Joshua Garcia and Julia Barretto in the leading roles. They last acted together in 2020 action film Block Z.
The three production companies have made some of the highest-grossing films since the pandemic with hits like Deleter (2022) and A Very Good Girl (2023). Star Cinema, the film arm of Abs-cbn, produced the top-grossing Philippine film of all time with Rewind last year,...
In its opening five days, the romance film has grossed 150M Philippine pesos ($2.65M), with over 450,000 admissions.
The film will open across the U.S. and Canada on August 23 and in Australia on August 22. Un/Happy For You has also secured theatrical releases in New Zealand, the U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Italy, Cambodia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Malta.
Produced by Abs-cbn Studios, Star Cinema and Viva Films, the film stars Joshua Garcia and Julia Barretto in the leading roles. They last acted together in 2020 action film Block Z.
The three production companies have made some of the highest-grossing films since the pandemic with hits like Deleter (2022) and A Very Good Girl (2023). Star Cinema, the film arm of Abs-cbn, produced the top-grossing Philippine film of all time with Rewind last year,...
- 8/19/2024
- by Sara Merican
- Deadline Film + TV
Poster Boys, Love You to the Stars and Back and more International Cinema titles opening this weekend!Poster Boys, Love You to the Stars and Back and more International Cinema titles opening this weekend!Adriana Floridia9/8/2017 2:39:00 PMEvery week, select Cineplex theatres feature some of the most popular and exciting films from all around the world, from countries like China, India, Korea, The Philippines and more. If you want to try something different at the movies, or simply celebrate your own or a new culture on the big screen, we’re highlighting the International Cinema titles out this weekend that you’ll surely enjoy!
Poster Boys (Hindi w/ English subtitles)
Poster Boys is a story inspired by a real life incident of three ordinary people who, to their surprise, find their picture on a poster promoting vasectomy. The film talks about how the three start getting ridiculed in their...
Poster Boys (Hindi w/ English subtitles)
Poster Boys is a story inspired by a real life incident of three ordinary people who, to their surprise, find their picture on a poster promoting vasectomy. The film talks about how the three start getting ridiculed in their...
- 9/8/2017
- by Adriana Floridia
- Cineplex
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