Season Premiere: Movies

Keanu, are you sure you're not Asian?

Keanu Reeves in 47 Ronin. 

Come Summertime in the US, you know all the mega franchises are showing and raking in big buck, because, well school's out and apparently there are plenty of kids who fuel this world. Which isn't a bad thing. But there is also another season to make it big in the cinemas. 

I'm a huge, huge fan of movies and I'll never believe a person who thinks watching movies is a waste of time or that anyone could've actually seen "enough" films in a lifetime. And yes, I do spend a lot of my free time on YouTube, clicking on all the good and bad 1 minute and something seconds of trailers, not considering the number of hits they get. Out of this, I have seen some promising stuff for the next few months that I highly recommend you to watch. 

After you see all of these trailers that I've posted you'll come to some conclusions: 1.) Keanu Reeves and Julianne Moore NEED to star in a movie together. If not at least a W Magazine cover (I just did that, yeah, just blurted it out there.) 2.) Keanu Reeves just might be Asian 3.) The next generation of stars are as big as the seniors that they all look up to 4.) After The Conjuring, I don't think anyone will come up with a good enough film to counter it...EXCEPT for Carrie. 5.) I am almost positive that Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be Batman and this is coming from a non-comic reading person who just has a gut feel of things in Entertainment...Don't take my word for it, but when it happens, I told you so (along with the many who already have laid it out there). 6.) We're still in love with war and teasing the possibilities of facing a world at its end. Pretty interesting. 7.) Young Adults rule!

Escape a bit with these films and enjoy the many stories that the handsome big screen brings to life.

Midspiration

Nike fan for life. This video is genius, but probably could've been better with less talk.

Songs could definitely perk you up the same way coffee does for people like myself who swear the world by it. Other times, when you slide straight to the middle of the week, you search for other things to keep you motivated--and not just cause you want to head straight to Friday night. Here are some cool videos I've gathered from around the web that'll give you that extra inspiration and also keep you looking forward to, well, more inspiring days.

The Spectacular Now is a book. And it's one those book-to-silver screen cases where you learn of the film first before the book (for me). Believe me when I say, I haven't, in the 23 years I've been alive, have felt this "melty" and fuzzy over these two pairing up. Kilig is the Tagalog term for it, that probably won't ever find its counterpart in the English language. Miles Teller (one of the cool kids on Project X) reminds me of Shia LaBeouf-spell check, and Shailene Woodley, I've loved since The Descendants. When Miles tells Shailene she's "absolutely beautiful" and she just erupts in this candid laughter, it feels like they're not in a movie at all. It's actually like watching classmates fall in love. And that's adorable. It's reminiscent of many t-shirt-wearing, simple-town America love stories that just stay with you until you're spent. It also helps that it's a coming-of-age tale that runs the whole spectrum of life experiences from falling in love to finding ones identity, to enjoying youth, the works. I bet my non-existent ass on it, that this soundtrack will be good. If not, that's a shame. Watch this and watch these two rocket to the skies faster than you'd expect. PAY ATTENTION!



I haven't seen anything as flawlessly edited a YouTube series as Jacks Gap's. Had they been Filipinos, I'll be rallying outside their doors to sign exclusive to W, then again...But yes. It helps that the two-twins Jack and Finn Harries look boy band-ready, but they also have substance. They're funny and they edit their videos the way YouTube videos should be edited. They've got their young girls screaming for them and their early 20s as a market and when you have a platform such as Jacks Gap-which is basically a video blog of their life and things they're interested in, you could start competing with celebrities. At least, that's how we do it here in Manila. I'm not yet sure if there are Filipino YouTubers out there who could produce something as clean, as consistent and as focused as these guys.