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

08 Friday Jan 2016

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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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A Second Chance: Sustaining the kilig

19 Saturday Dec 2015

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by Heinrich Domingo

Sequels are meant to serve movie corporations more than the viewers. Banking on the fandom built by the successful first films, movie productions would often release an underdeveloped storyline for the sole purpose of profit. Many of us are lured to take a bite of One More Chance’s prequel with a promise that the movie experience will be new and equally rewarding. After watching the film, expectations were exceeded as A Second Chance took a path different from many pop films in the market today. It did not content itself in pleasing the loyal viewers but it elevated the discussion into marital life, financial struggles, and family building. As a result, the audience were gifted with a more critical discussion while maintaining the romance and kilig in the story.

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Etiquette for Mistresses: Talks of Feminism

03 Saturday Oct 2015

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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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The Love Affair: The Milking of Infidelity Stories

25 Tuesday Aug 2015

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by Heinrich Domingo

Back in 2013 to 2014, Philippine cinema had a myriad of stories on infidelity and third parties. The viewers, at that time, were receptive of plots set in patriarchal environments decorated with beautiful mistresses. In this cockfight featuring spiteful women willing to strike anytime, the Filipino bettors choose the character who delivers the ‘bitchiest’ line accompanied by the hardest slap.

It was undeniably a heyday for the mainstream film industry in the country. Big production houses such as Star Cinema and Viva Records have once again mined a valuable mineral that can be sold forever. The supply is infinite and the consumers are with endless appetite. Or so they thought. The showing of The Love Affair in cinemas this month proved that narratives of infidels have reached their point of exhaustion. They are at this point revolting.

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The Breakup Playlist: Rocking the Mainstream World with Heart on its Sleeve

18 Saturday Jul 2015

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by Heinrich Domingo

The Breakup Playlist exhibits the journey of Philippine Cinema – struggling between looking for what is financially stable and striving for an outstanding content.Slide1

We wish to spare you from the discussion of film criticism or lectures of the history of Philippine cinema, yet, we cannot help but see this Star Cinema’s newest as an ideal piece for deconstruction and rationalization.

At the big screen, we see the marriage of two worlds – that of the independent film and of the mainstream media. On one side, The Breakup Playlist was released by Star Cinema, the country’s largest motion picture company. On the other hand, it was directed by Dan Villegas (best known for his low-budget yet award-winning English Only Please) and written by Antoinette Jadaone (debuted on her trending That Thing Called Tadhana) both of whom started in the world of Independent Philippine Cinema.

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