06 Monday Aug 2018
Posted in Movie Reviews
Kip Oebanda leaves a part of himself in Liway. He allows us to enter a childhood experience that is so painful and personal. In exchange, he captures the hearts of his audience. While his material is about a significant portion of Philippine history, he uses his personal life as a starting point to retell a dark past. In effect, the narrative became more palatable and the character more empathic.
05 Sunday Aug 2018
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Regional films are treading on a very thin line: they either snob their rural context and environment or they do so much to the point of exoticization. Amusin Pa traverses this line at ease. It situates the audience in a Southern Tagalog setting without necessarily alienating them or the characters in the narrative.
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04 Saturday Aug 2018
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By Heinrich Domingo
And when the innocents were killed, the audience erupts in cheers.
It is Cinemalaya’s opening night. I joined hundreds of cinema enthusiasts while enduring the Friday traffic of Manila to watch this year’s opening film. Buybust tells the story of a drug raid in an urban jungle in Tondo. It follows an operation of a team of PDEA, the country’s topmost police agency specifically made to counter the drug trade. In a time when the war on drugs is the President’s main platform, Erik Matti’s choice of narrative is poignant and bold.
01 Sunday Jan 2017
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2016, Best Director, elora españo, erik matti, filipino, film, film review, honor thy father, indie film, Metro Manila Film Festival 2016, MMFF, MMFF 2016, Movie, Movie review, Seklusyon
By Heinrich Domingo
Seklusyon begins with an interesting story. It is set in the 1940s, with religion and mysticism luring viewers to dip into its narrative. But as it progresses, this inviting story turns into a murky narrative that engulfs the viewers to a mar of confusion and disappointment. It is a story coming in so strong but failing to land with a solid end.
18 Tuesday Oct 2016
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2016, animation, Art Parkinson, charlize theron, film criticism, Japan, Kubo and the Two Strings, Laika film, Movie review, Travis Knight
Forget anything animated you have seen this year; Kubo and the Two Strings is here.
