By Anna Valmero
Inquirer.net

“Most people respect the badge. Everyone respects the gun.”

This line encapsulates the main theme of the film, Righteous Kill: the gun as the great equalizer among people—civilians and criminals.

Godfather vets Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro team up in the film as NYPD detectives David “Rooster” Fisk and Detective Tom “Turk” Cowan, respectively. They are tasked to work on a murder case and investigate if it is connected to a previous crime involving a serial killer—a crime they perceived to have been already solved.

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Spoiler alert!

After nine months of waiting, the new Heroes episode finally airs. As season 3 premieres, two episodes were immediately lines up by NBC.

(You can catch some previews here).

This season will answer questions like “Who shot Nathan Petrelli?”

Without giving away too much details, the two new episodes will introduce new characters and “repackaged” characters. You will find the world’s fastest thief introduced. You will also see Heroes becoming villains. It is going to be a battle between good and evil.

So who shot Nathan Petrelli? Was it Noah Bennet who is a known killer?Adam Monroe? Niki Sanders? Angela Petrelli? Mohinder Suresh? Claire Bennet? Or the most obvious one, Sylar?

Let’s just say a certain time traveler intervened to protect the future. Enough said.

(Editor’s note: Re-posted to correct earlier title). 

By Izah Morales
INQUIRER.net

CARTOON Network turns its animated television series “Ben 10″ to a movie, dubbed “Ben 10: Race Against Time,” its first live action made-for-TV movie.

Ben 10 fans can expect an action, adventure, humor-packed film with computer-animated graphics visuals, according to Cartoon Network Enterprises Vice President for Asia Pacific Dulce Lim-Chen. “It’s a very good take from the animated series with actors performing,” said Lim-Chen.

Ben 10: Race Against Time casts TV Legend Lee Majors as Grandpa Max (Ben’s and Gwen’s grandfather), Graham Phillips as Ben Tennyson (Evan Almighty), and Haley Ramm as Gwen (X-Men 3).

In this movie, Ben will be challenged by his nemesis, Eon from another galaxy who will try to get the Omnitrix from him and destroy the Earth.

Though his character Grandpa Max is involved with a paranormal society called the Plumbers, Majors doesn’t personally believe in UFOs.

Nonetheless, Majors related that he has similarities with Grandpa Max such as giving sound advice and keeping his grandchildren away from trouble.

Cartoon Network said the movie premier will be on Sept. 26, 2008 at 8 p.m.

By Izah Morales
INQUIRER.net

HELLBOY 2: The Golden Army is a visual treat for its audience yet it misses weaving its ending to sustain the plot of the story.

The plot of the story was promising in the beginning when a truce made peace possible between mankind and magical creatures but distrust and thirst for power and dominion over Earth pushed Prince Nuada to kill even his kin. Disobedience and greed overpowered him as he ignored to honor what has been agreed upon by mankind and the magical creatures.

As the story moved to its climax, the film engages the viewers to the story and some funny moments (remember when Hellboy and Abe Sapien started singing as they tried to understand love and falling in love). But then, the ending was disappointing because the death of Prince Nuada and her twin sister Princess Nuala does not justify peace. Being six feet under doesn’t stop war. The movie left viewers lost in transition. It also tried to inject love story (Sapien falling in love with Princess Nuala) when it is not needed. The film became a bit cheesy, but perhaps that was Guillermo del Toro’s way of injecting humor and some “humanity” in the movie.

Nonetheless, Director Guillermo del Toro (also of Pan’s Labyrinth) successfully brought its viewers to a world of make believe for this action adventure packed movie. Viewers will surely enjoy watching how superheroes, Hellboy a.ka. Red, Liz Sherman, and Abraham Sapien, can be normal and mortal in their extraordinary way. Despite their super powers, they reveal a “human side.” That human side was exposed when Red and Abe went on singing Al Green and Barry White after downing cans of beer.

If you want a mind-tickling film this is not for you. But if you want your eyes to feast on visual effects then you should not miss this one.

THE Amazing Race Asia (TARA) Season 3 is on.

The Asian version of this award winning reality show will start airing on September 10, 2008, and will run Thursday nights at 9 p.m. on AXN channel, Sony Productions Entertainment Asia announced in a launch early this week.

A total of 22 teams registered for the TARA Season 3 promotional event; but only 8 teams were left standing. From the 8 chosen teams, only three were awarded by the Sony Productions Entertainment Asia during the event in the Trinoma mall in Quezon City.

This year’s Philippine team is composed of Tisha Silang and Jeff Rodriguez. They were invited to talk during the launch about how they discovered each other’s strengths and competitiveness while both rekindled the challenges they have had as individuals.

Season 2 Filipino contestants Marc Nelson and Paula Taylor were also at the event to share their experiences.

During the launch of TARA Season 3, a mall-based race was also simulated inside the mall with obstacle courses built within the activity area while some participating merchant stores and boutiques served as pit stops.