Maverick Films

A man in another land

A 2001 Filipino action film starring and directed by Ronnie Ricketts

An ex-marine used by police in a drug bust. He escapes a rub-out, and goes after the group who double-crossed him.

A 2003 Filipino comedy film starring Jinggoy Estrada, Joey Marquez, and Katya Santos.

After 10 years working as a supervisor for an oil drilling firm in Saudi Arabia, Oca (Jinggoy Estrada, in a somewhat restraint performance) returns to the Philippines to visit his family. The film opens with his wife (Lorna Tolentino), best friend (Bayani Agbayani) and dotting mother (Vangie Labalan) waiting patiently for Oca's arrival at the airport. We are then introduced with the rest of the star studded cast, as Oca visits his house, where he meets up with his estranged kids (Shaina Magdayao, Arron Villaflor, Julian Estrada), and parents in loss (in-laws), which shows no affection whatsoever towards him. Only his drinking buddies, mother, and sister, are excited on his return, only because they see him as a prized cash cow. Jose Javier Reyes revisits his movie, Bayarang Puso (1997), in a cheese filled dance sequence, Oca drunk as ever grooves with no pretension. This and other embarrassing situations tears the family slowly apart.

Army Major RUBEN MEDRANO was once a part of an elite anti-kidnapping task force. An unfortunate incident during an operation got him suspended and sent back to Manila. There he tries to renew ties with his daughter MARISSA who has been living with his dead wives sister MARIEL. Marissa refuses to recognize her father because of all his shortcomings in the past. Nevertheless, Ruben decides to remain in the area. He soon discovers the presence of drug pushers and decides to do something about them. The drug lord who controls these pushers hires a hit-man named CARLOS to hunt down Ruben for meddling in his affairs. Soon the small community turns into a war-zone a Ruben tries to defend himself and those close to him from the attacks of these gangsters.

It is Salve’s dream for her children to live happily after working hard to raise them alone. Now in her daughter Sally’s wedding, she feels she has accomplished that seeing her children giving tribute to her. Unknown to her, a big surprise awaits when they arrived home. An unconscious man is in their gate. Salve is quite familiar who the man is. She can never forget him – he is the man who left him years ago for another woman – her husband Benny.

Joey does every outlandish trick in the book to derail Billy and Grasya's wedding plans. Only to get himself harrassed by his girl, May... and into doubly outrageous trouble he finds a hell of a time to get off the hook from. He's got three days to make good on his well-laid plans that always seem to have a sick and sorry way of backfiring on him. It's when the supposed to be wedding's bestman's hare brained schemes seem to be working when fate again springs it's nastiest trick. The moment Billy finds out about Joey's schemes, he sets out to do some scheming of his own. It takes two to bungle, really!

A group of prisoners was secretly commissioned by Gen. Torre to fight those who intend to destabilize the government. And after successfully ridding the system of scalawags, they were promised that their records will be cleared as well as reinstatement in the police service. After the media questioned the existence of the group, the general decides to get rid of them by execution. The group found out about this and decided to fight back.

Two lifelong friends have their lives shaken up when one of them discovers that he has cancer. Quick to lose hope in the face of his deteriorating health, it's left to his best friend to help him get through these troubled times.