Just an all-around lovable creature who loves movies ❤️

Manny the Movie Guy has been in love with the movies for as long as he can remember. It started with the school newspaper at Purdue, where a kid who grew up in the Philippines discovered he could get paid (well, sort of) to talk about the films he adored. He never looked back.

Today, Manny is a five-time Emmy Award–winning entertainment reporter, film critic and host based in the Coachella Valley. Since 2004 he’s been NBC Palm Springs’ resident movie guy, serving up weekly reviews, red-carpet coverage and one-on-ones with Hollywood’s biggest names. George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Gal Gadot and Tina Fey have all sat across from him, and most of them left giggling too. He’s flown to London for the Wednesday Season 2 junket, worked the carpets at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and covered Coachella more times than his eardrums care to count.

Manny is also a proud bridge between Hollywood and the Filipino diaspora. After 17 years bringing stars into Filipino homes worldwide on ABS-CBN’s The Filipino Channel and ANC, he now reports for Bilyonaryo News Channel and Agenda Philippines, chatting up everyone from George Clooney to Kim Chiu and Paulo Avelino.

He’s a voting member of the Critics Choice Association, helping pick the Critics Choice Awards each year, and a member of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. The City of Palm Desert even honored him with a proclamation during Filipino-American History Month, which he still brings up at parties.

Catch Manny’s reviews and interviews on NBC Palm Springs, on Bilyonaryo News Channel, and right here.

When he’s not running around Hollywood, Manny is happiest at home in the desert with his husband, Kevin, his college sweetheart of more than three decades, and their senior fur babies: Twinkle, a 14-year-old chihuahua, and Dory, an 18-year-old kitty cat who has seen more movies than most critics and still won’t share her opinions.