My Movie World: January 2023

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Movie Review: Latay

"Latay" dwells into the brewing turmoil of an unusual rural couple, where the husband is the awkwardly "suffering" type, but vulnerable to temptation and passively lacks ambition. While the wife appears to be antagonistic,expressing discontent with the trials in their dysfunctional relarionship via her violent streak, which unfortunately projects to her husband. It's about a couple that has all yhe deals of making love work ideally, but social forces coupled with their struggling egos,made them drift apart.

Movie Review: Girlfriend Na Pwede Na

In order to settle down, are you willing to settle for less? Or will you be brave enough to walk out of a tiring and dragging relationship and realize that you deserve so much more?

Meet Pam (Kim Molina), the “okay” girlfriend – not too much, not too less, just average. Now in her late 20s, she’s been longing to finally move on to the next chapter of her life and marry her longtime boyfriend Jiggs (Gab Lagman), but despite their seven-year relationship, Jiggs has given no hints in popping the question to Pam. As it turns out, he is not so sure that Pam is the one for him. Hurt and insulted, Pam breaks up with Jiggs but regrets it almost immediately after realizing that Jiggs still owns her heart.

Instead of moving on from her now ex-boyfriend, Pam formulates a plan to make Jiggs want her back and make him realize that Pam is the one for him. With help from her friends, they will hire and create the perfect guy to make Jiggs jealous. This guy would be Isko (Jerald Napoles), a simple Buko Juice vendor who, in exchange for a good amount of money, agrees to pretend and be the perfect boyfriend for Pam.

What was at first a fake and forced relationship turns into a happy companionship as Pam and Isko’s humor jive perfectly, and realizes that they also have a lot in common. Jiggs and their friends also begin to notice a change in Pam and her growing closeness with Isko.

Jiggs becomes jealous and now tries to pursue Pam once more – this could be the perfect ending for Pam’s original plan, but the catch is Pam is now starting to see Isko in a different light and might be falling for him. Will she choose the one her heart is already familiar with? Or the one who came unexpectedly? Is Jiggs still the one she wants to marry? Or has Isko completely changed her mind?