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Room: Speaking the unspeakable

03 Wednesday Feb 2016

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best actress golden globes, brie larson, crime, drama, feminism, jacob tremblay, marital violence, Movie review, oscars 2016, Room, thriller, violence

By Heinrich Domingo

Room speaks ill of the darkness of human capacity. It warns the viewers on how sweet and beautiful creatures can be ruined by monsters dressed as people. With only metaphors and imagery, the film successfully tells the unspeakable. It does not need sex, blood, or violence to narrate a story that is too hurtful to watch. With an outstanding cast, it pierces the audience into the soul and leaves a cinema experience they would never forget.

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Everything About Her: A hopeful beginning

31 Sunday Jan 2016

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2016, angel locsin, cancer, comedy, drama, everything about her, feminism, Movie review, philippines, romance, star cinema, tagaytay, vilma santos, xian lim

By Heinrich Domingo

Star Cinema’s opening salvo this year offers a glimpse on how love stories can be effectively interspersed in a promising plot. Everything About Her bears a multi-tiered discussion on maternal, filial and romantic love. With a clean storyline and commendable acting, Director Joyce Bernal brought us the best of Filipino populist cinema in the recent years.

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Brooklyn: Loving and living is a choice

28 Thursday Jan 2016

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2015, America, Brooklyn, drama, Emory Cohen, feminism, immigrants, Ireland, John Crowley, Movie review, oscars 2016, romance, Saorise Ronan, United States

By Heinrich Domingo

Love is a choice and so is the search for happiness, fulfillment, and contentment. This was the story of Eilis and her journey from Ireland to Brooklyn. She courageously crossed seas to define her own life. But it wasn’t a sweet sail. She was exposed to series of heartaches and constant disappointment. Brooklyn records the marvelous feat of an empowered woman who has proven that destinies and fate are made.

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Joy: An average tale of invention and inspiration

15 Friday Jan 2016

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bradley cooper, david o. russell, edgar ramirez, feminism, golden globes 2016, jennifer lawrence, joy, movie revew, oscars 2016, robert de niro

By Heinrich Domingo

In a patriarchal consumerist world, there is little space for women. The film, loosely based on actual events, chronicles how a divorced mother of two struggles to enter the world she does not fit in.  It uses the commendable performances from its cast while loudly announcing a strong stance against gender discrimination. It is a movie that is fun, entertaining, and satisfying to watch.

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Etiquette for Mistresses: Talks of Feminism

03 Saturday Oct 2015

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cheena crab, chito rono, claudine baretto, etiquette for mistresses, feminism, film review, helen gamboa, iza calzado, julie yap-daza, kim chiu, kris aquino, mistress, Movie, Movie review, Review, star cinema

by Lei Landicho

Here is a film that will end the infidelity epidemic in cinemas. Any movie, post-Etiquette, that will mention the words, ‘affair,’ ‘other woman,’ or ‘mistress’ would be considered null and void. Etiquette for Mistresses does not deny that movie productions have abrasively fed us up with stories on adultery and unfaithfulness; rather, it embraces the idea, banks on it, and flaunts the many differing perspectives of being a woman at the backyard of a matrimonial home.

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