For award-winning director Joel Lamangan, making films isn’t just about making people laugh or cry. It’s about showing the truth. “I just would like to point out that films should not only entertain.

Kamkam lead actor Allen Dizon is joined in this photo by his leading lady Jackie Rice, who is cast as his third wife. This movie directed by Joel Lamangan will be screened in cinemas starting July 9, ...

AT a time when the daily disarray and disorder that local politics provide us ignite and incinerate our emotions on whether our motherland deserves what these politicians are shaping it to be, arts ...

A biopic covering the life of the late Nora Aunor has been in “initial talks,” although it has been put on hold following her death, according to filmmaker Joel Lamangan. The actor-director bared ...

Lihis director Joel Lamangan (left frame) says it took them half a day to shoot the much talked about sex scene of Joem Bascon and Jake Cuenca (right frame). In an interview with Direk Joel after the ...

A distinctly Filipino mix of piety and prurience comprise this uneasy cocktail. Story of religious fervor and related hucksterism in a depressed village reps a lesser effort from helmer Joel Lamangan.

Directed by Joel Lamangan in 2009, "Dukot" (or "Disappeared") portrays the horrors of human rights abuses in the Philippines through the eyes of a politically apathetic mother who must face the truth ...

Joel Lamangan isn’t one to mince his words. The state of Philippine cinema, he says, is “not good.” And it hasn’t been for a while. While the decline in box office attendance stems from multiple ...

Joel Lamangan (born September 21, 1952) is a Filipino film director, television director and actor. His award-winning films includes The Flor Contemplacion Story, Sidhi, Deathrow, Hubog, Aishte Imasu ...

Joel Lamangan‘s Fall Guy (2023) movie trailer has been released by Vivamax. The Fall Guy trailer stars Karl Aquino, Cloe Barreto, Shamaine Buencamino, Quinn Carrillo, Sean De Guzman, Hershie De Leon, ...

Not reviewed at press time. Biographical film from the Philippines dramatizes the life of Felix Ysagun Manalo, the country's first executive minister of the Church of Christ. A note to readers: Bold ...