Mike de Leon’s “Batch ’81,” a seminal movie on fraternities and fascism, will be restored by the Asian Film Archive (AFA) in Singapore. De Leon told the Inquirer that Karen Chan, AFA executive ...

The restored version of Mike de Leon’s “Batch ’81” will have its Philippine premiere Oct. 28, at TriNoma Cinema 2. It will be the closing film of the QCinema International Film Festival. Its world ...

More than three decades ago, “Batch ’81” unsettled local moviegoers and later international audiences with its unflinching depiction of campus fraternity violence. Directed by Mike de Leon and with ...

JP Steelwood 81/85 completed yet another title run as they swept Batch ’95, 89-58, to capture the Division 1 championship in the recent University of San Carlos Boys High Alumni Basketball Association ...

It's Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive.

Mike de Leon’s “Batch ’81” was a searing indictment of the violence and the brainwashing that happens behind closed doors in universities, as underground fraternities induct their clueless neophytes.

Movies including 'Batch 81' will be shown in celebration of the actor's body of work MANILA, Philippines – My Own Mann Productions Inc., together with Ayala Cinemas and the Film Development Council of ...

Vilma Santos in her career-defining role as “Sister Stella L” (1984). Songs from the original sound track had come from the zarzuela film conceived by Mike de Leon and José “Pete” Lacaba. Reclusive ...