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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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Honor Thy Father: A mine of gold

06 Wednesday Jan 2016

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2015, conman, erik matti, honor thy father, John Lloyd Cruz, metro manila film festival, MMFF, mmff 2015, Movie review

By Heinrich Domingo

Honor Thy Father is a mine of gold for cinephiles who have been patiently digging for something good in an insurmountable mound of trashy MMFF collection. It completes the checklist of an outstanding film – intricate storyline, enticing cinematography, and empathic acting.

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Nilalang: Unapologetically full of itself

17 Thursday Dec 2015

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2015, cesar montano, film, Horror, maria ozawa, meg imperial, metro manila film festival, mmff 2015, Movie review, nilalang, Review, thriller, viva films

by Lei Landicho

As an official entry to the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), Nilalang claims that it is offering something new to the table. It declares that it can even pass international standards of filmmaking (relatively, though, to the MMFF trends from previous years). In all fairness, Nilalang truly knows how to please a crowd. It has blood, sex, and Maria Ozawa. The problem however is, when you strip it off of its appealing veneer, we see a half-baked, run-of-the-mill paranormal action film that admires itself as something more than it actually is. A work of art that gives too much labor on one of its elements while overlooking the others, then regards itself as excellent, is arrogant to say the least.

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