HATING MAGKAPATID
Starring: Judy Ann Santos, Sarah Geronimo
These two genuinely likeable princesses of the masa team up in a Star Cinema dramedy that, for a change, focuses on sisterhood and not just on romantic misadventures.
THE TOWN
Starring: Ben Affleck, Blake Lively, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner
Director: Ben Affleck
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Ben Affleck follows up his respected directorial debut, 2007's Gone Baby Gone, with this tale of a thief who must grapple with a relentless FBI agent and his feelings for a bank manager connected with one of his former heists as he prepares for his latest caper. I'm watching to see Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) and Jon Hamm (TV's Mad Men) in follow-ups to their star-making roles. For the rest of you, there's Blake Lively, trying to prove there's life after Gossip Girl.
GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE
Starring: Jim Sturgess, Helen Mirren, Ryan Kwanten
Director: Zack Snyder
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Based on the first three books of a mammoth 15-book series following the adventures of a young barn owl named Soren (Across the Universe's Jim Sturgess) and the unknown avian world he inhabits, this CGI movie is a cross between a talking-animal classic like Watership Down and a fantasy epic like Lord of the Rings. This is also Zack Snyder's (300, Watchmen) first G-rated and fully animated film.
OF ALL THE THINGS/MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY
Starring: Aga Muhlach, Regine Velasquez/John Lloyd Cruz, Bea Alonzo
Okay, okay. Technically, these are two movies. But they both feature successful team-ups reuniting after some time spent apart. (Aga and Regine last appeared together in 2001's Pangako…Ikaw Lang, while John Lloyd and Bea were last seen in 2007's One More Chance.) Which pair still has the magic? It'll be up to us, the audience, to decide.
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lutner
Director: David Slade
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Because we know we'll never hear the end of it unless you get your "I-wouldn't-want-to-live-in-a-world-without-you-in-it" fix.
