Tuesday 29 December 2020
Monday 28 December 2020
Saturday 26 December 2020
Movie Review: The Missing
In the pursuit of a contractual work in Japan, Iris became the victim of a curse that haunted her engagement as an architect of an over 100 year old house. Iris (Ritz Azul), a 28-year-old architect often hallucinates due to suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after losing her younger sister to a kidnapping syndicate. Meanwhile, Job (Joseph Marco), who is also an architect and an ex-lover of Iris, invites Iris to go to Japan for a job opportunity. The Missing also follows Len (Miles Ocampo), a graduating student who was born and has spent her childhood in Saga, Japan.
Movie Review: Tagpuan
In a world
where people wander all over the globe for survival and no home can any
longer be called home, three rootless lonely souls try to connect.
Allan is a rich businessman who hides his empty life by being successful.
Tanya is the product of rape by a Chinese with a Filipino domestic helper.
Agnes is the ex-wife of Allan. She has struggled to make something out of herself in New York after leaving an oppressive relationship with Allan five years ago.
Soon their paths cross in New York. And there is a reckoning on how far one can hide the guilt of the past, and how far one can wear a mask to hide the pains of the present in the jungles of diaspora.
Movie Review: Fan Girl
A high school fan girl’s obsession with huge celebrity Paulo Avelino – 1⁄2 of the country’s most popular love team – leads her to hide at the back of his pick-up truck and follow him home. She ends up in an unfamiliar house in an unfamiliar place with an unfamiliar Paulo Avelino, the idol she thought she knew from head to foot, heart and soul. They say, never meet your heroes, and she finds out exactly why.
Wednesday 23 December 2020
Movie Review: The Boy Foretold By The Stars
The Boy Foretold By The Stars is a romantic comedy movie about two senior high school boys, who thru the help of a fortune teller, find each other at an optional school retreat called Journey with the Lord.
Movie Review: Magikland
On Christmas Eve, four lonely kids are chosen to save Magikland, a
fantastic and magical place where all the world’s toys and games come
from. These game winners are transported into this mystical land where
the game takes place.
The film’s themes are
rooted in age old Negros myths, which is why the heroes’ names pay
homage to the local landscape: Boy Bakunawa, Mara Marapara, Pat Patag,
and Kit Kanlaon.
They go on a quest to try and save Magikland from Mogrador, the evil dictator of the land.
As
they fight to save this magical world, they also discover their
respective strengths, and the power that can only be achieved through
teamwork, selflessness and finding happiness in friendship that they've
formed with one another.
Tuesday 22 December 2020
Monday 21 December 2020
Saturday 19 December 2020
Friday 18 December 2020
Tuesday 15 December 2020
Saturday 12 December 2020
Movie Review: Four Sisters Before The Wedding
It’s the year 2003. While CJ (Clarence Delgado) is in Singapore for a science seminar, his sisters Teddie (Charlie Dizon), Bobbie (Alexa Ilacad), Alex (Gillian Vicencio) and Gabbie (Belle Mariano) discover that their dad, Caloy (Dominic Ochoa), might be cheating on their mom, Grace (Carmina Villaroel). To find out the truth and save their parents' marriage, they hire a private investigator and plan to make a surprise wedding anniversary party. Both cost money which they don’t have.
Wednesday 9 December 2020
Movie Review: Death of Nintendo
Set in 90’s suburban Manila, the story takes us into the colorful
pop-culture world of four 13-year old friends, back in the days when
videogames were still a novelty. Mimaw and her friends Paolo, Kachi, and
Gilligan go on a journey of self-discovery together as they play games
and wrestle with new dilemmas – puppy love, circumcision and other
horror stories.
Movie Review: Lahi, Hayop
Taking leave from their jobs at a gold mine, three workers journey to
their home village on foot through the spectacular yet unforgiving
wilderness of the mythical island of Hugaw. As time passes and their
conversations intensify, buried histories emerge and a sense of
psychosis invades the scene. As ever, Lav Diaz’s exquisitely subdued
black-and-white images and patient rhythm lend a Brechtian register to
the drama; almost always filmed from the same fixed distance, each scene
is an immaculate tableau vivant. Behind the film’s folkloric façade,
Diaz once again taps into the collective memory of defiant struggles
against the tyranny of both contemporary Filipino society and colonial
brutality, centred on the timeless image of men walking – one of the key
traits of Pan.
Tuesday 8 December 2020
Monday 7 December 2020
Tuesday 1 December 2020
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