Tag: filipinocinema

We all were once invincible. High with puberty, we were indestructible with our first time sexual encounters, super secret crushes, and truckloads of alcohol. We talked with flair, mouthing fad words that are strange to adult ears. We walked with a...

Various colorful images of Manila open Otso (Eight), Elwood Perez's first film since Lupe: A Seaman's Wife and Ssshhh... She Walks by Night ten years ago. Lex (Vince Tanada), a returning Filipino writer who is commissioned by a director to draft...

A telephone conversation between Ernesto "Jazz" Tigaldao and his German boyfriend Theo Rutkowski opens Baby Ruth Villarama's Jazz in Love. As excited words are exchanged, Villarama's camera lingers heavily on Jazz's face, examining its longing lines and careful contours, forcing...

Predictably, Four Sisters and a Wedding is plagued with all the deficiencies and excesses of a movie that caters to the masses. It suffers from an identity crisis, but that identity crisis is its biggest selling point, especially in a...