About Takilya
Takilya is a community-built directory of Philippine cinemas: every branch, every screen inside it, the showtimes playing there, and what moviegoers say about the screens.
What it is for
Most listings answer what is playing. Takilya answers where to watch it: which screen, how it is set up, what people who sat in it thought, and what a ticket there usually costs. Coverage is the Philippines, times are Manila time, prices are in pesos.
Tickets are sold by the cinema operators: booking links point at them, and their own site or box office is the final word on price and availability.
What it covers
Cinema branches and the individual screens inside them, the formats and seating on record for each screen, aggregated showtimes for the days on view, and community reviews of the screens.
Schedules are aggregated from the cinemas' own public listings, so coverage follows what each operator publishes. Screen specifications are what is on record, so a blank field reads as unknown. These pages and the sitemap are the whole surface.
Stable facts and dated facts
A screen's identity, formats, seating, branch and address are stable: an edit on record is what changes them. Showtimes, prices and seat readings are dated: each belongs to one day or one moment.
Prices are three separate classes of evidence. An exact price is the figure published for that showtime, a range gives a low and a high bound, and an estimate is marked "est." from that screen's typical price, so read it as a guide.
Closure comes from the operational status on record: a screen reads "Temporarily closed" or "Permanently closed" with the date that status was set. An empty schedule means the operator has yet to publish times for the days on view.
How reviews and scores work
Reviews are written by visitors and moderated: approved ones are published. A screen's score aggregates ratings of 1 to 5 over a rolling six-month window, falling back to all time when that window is empty. Under five reports it carries a "few reports yet" label and is still shown.
A score is an aggregate of visitor ratings for that screen, so it belongs to the room rather than to any film.
A screen may also carry a block headed "Community sentiment, curated": public discussion distilled, kept beside the score rather than counted into it.
Seat snapshots
Seat availability is a Takilya feature. Where the cinema publishes it, a showtime carries a seat snapshot: seats taken out of total, as of a stated time, read from the cinema's own booking page and updated on a schedule. A snapshot is a seat count. The time stamp is part of the fact: it says how full that showtime was at that moment.
Corrections
Report anything wrong: an incorrect screen detail, a screen that closed or reopened, a schedule that stays empty. Use the contact form or email support.takilyaph@gmail.com. Fixing the record is how a community database stays useful.
Privacy
Reviews are published under a handle, which is the name the site shows. A device fix, if you allow one, stays on your device: it anchors the sort that puts nearer cinemas first, and the lookup it feeds answers with a nearest city and then discards the fix. Picking an area by hand does the same job. The full detail is in the privacy notice.