“Heneral Luna” (“heneral” is Tagalog for “general”) — a Filipino ... the film’s structure as a series of flashbacks. The script fails to demonstrate why Luna is considered a ...

Tarog went on to revise the script and translate it into colloquial Tagalog — he wanted Heneral Luna to speak to as many audience members as possible — and two years later the film was made. Tarog’s ...

In celebration of this year's Independence Day, select cinemas will screen the award-winning biopics of Filipino heroes ...

The fiery general—and Filipino hero—Antonio Luna ... man who loved his country perfectly. Read: ‘Heneral Luna’ star John Arcilla on the hero and the film Ortigas: The first time I got the script, I ...

“Heneral Luna’s” early reviews, all the way to my favorite critic Oggs Cruz’s, gushed about its cinematography and witty script. Two weeks into its ... Only the American generals exclaimed at how a ...

Since, by virtue of occasionally writing in this newspaper, I have become a media practitioner myself, I asked myself what the success of “Heneral Luna” says about Filipino audiences. Here are what I ...