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All You Need is Pag-ibig: Love just ain’t enough

08 Friday Jan 2016

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All you need is pag-ibig, antoinette jadaone, bimby aquino-yap, derek ramsey, ian veneracion, jody sta. maria, kim chiu, kris aquino, metro manila film festival, MMFF, mmff 2015, Movie review, star cinema, xian lim

By Heinrich Domingo

This time, director Antoinette Jadaone bit more than she can chew. Her magic can only go so far in bringing the best out of a problematic plot and an ensemble of lowly to mediocre talents. With all these, All You Need is Pag-ibig ended up as a mishmash of incompetent cast, lame script, and messy plot.

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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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