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    Akashi Review

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    May 3, 2026
    Akashi Review

    By Heinrich Domingo The diaspora experience is unique. It carries with it a voice that is often unheard and a perspective that is often misunderstood. For years, cinema has attempted to tell stories of identity, yet many of these are filtered through a singular cultural lens. Akashi stands as a…

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    Rental Family Review

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    May 2, 2026
    Rental Family Review

    Much has been written about the hidden loneliness of Japan and how its society can appear eccentric to outsiders. Films have often attempted to explain this through a foreign lens, sometimes reducing it into mere fascination. Rental Family does not fall into this trap. Made by a Japanese team, the…

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    Hello, Love, Again and the Global Filipino

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    November 19, 2024
    Hello, Love, Again and the Global Filipino

    In January 2023, my wife and I left the Philippines in search of a better future in Canada. We bid goodbye to the careers we had built and the community we had been a part of—managing to squeeze the past three decades into two 25-kg pieces of luggage. As a…

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    BL Series at ang Gay Narrative sa Pilipinas

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    September 11, 2020
    BL Series at ang Gay Narrative sa Pilipinas

    Hindi bago ang kwento ng bakla sa Philippine media. May makulay at kadalasa’y masalimuot na kasaysayan ang representasyon nila sa sine at TV. Sa pagpasok ng panibagong porma ng gay media sa Pilipinas, kailangan suriin kung paano nakatutulong o nakasasama ang mga palabas na ito sa imahe ng bakla.  Dalawa…

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    Quing Lalam Ning Aldo: On Food and Coming Home

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    August 11, 2020
    Quing Lalam Ning Aldo: On Food and Coming Home

    Quing Lalam Ning Aldo is a story of a transgender parent who anticipates the arrival of her son from overseas. While she prepares the entire home, she reminisces the good old days they spent in the kitchen.

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