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London Has Fallen: Film as propaganda

12 Saturday Mar 2016

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2016, action, film review, Gerard Butler, London Has Fallen, military, Morgan Freeman, movie revew, Olympus Has Fallen film series, SAF 44, thriller, United States

By Justin Rev Ino Tamang

London Has Fallen begins with snippets of news sound bites on various terrorist- or insurgency-related attacks. One of the last news snippets to be audible is the story of the SAF 44. The following scene takes place in Pakistan, where the son of arms dealer Aamir Barkawi returns home. They attend a wedding, which the United States government then bombs via drone strike.

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Five Viddsee Short Films You Have to Watch

18 Thursday Feb 2016

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Ang Sulat ni Pepe, Asia, comedy, documentary, drama, Five Thousand, Limang Libo, movie list, Nothing too Supreme, Pepe's Letter, public domain, short film, The Dreamweaver, TheRapist, thriller, Viddsee

With the advent of torrent-sharing websites, films became readily available to anyone in the Internet. Yet, many of the files shared online are almost always synonymous to piracy. This is simply off-putting to movie buffs who believe that artists should reap maximum profit from their works. Viddsee, an online video service company, solves this dilemma. It offers a guilt-free movie experience as it allows its users to watch short films made available in public domain. Directors and production staff submit their works in the website. This Singapore-based company currently curates films from Asia but we don’t know yet, they might expand to Europe and America in the near future.

As a start, we give you five of their Philippine-made shorts that might interest you. We are providing a link of each video. But if you wish to view more works from other countries, we suggest visiting their website and tell us submissions that we might have missed.

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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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Legend: A moving action

19 Tuesday Jan 2016

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2015, action, biopic, drama, Emily Browning, gangster, Kray brothers, Legend, London, mafia, Movie review, thriller, tom hardy

By Heinrich Domingo

In the unlikeliest characters of cinema, you will find the strongest of emotion. This gangster-driven film brings to the audience the valuable lessons of loyalty, commitment, and trust. Legend creates a decent biopic and allows Tom Hardy to make the best out of the material. It is an artistic piece that is moving to watch.

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Extraction: Action with an opposite reaction

13 Wednesday Jan 2016

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action, Bruce Willis, CIA, D. B. Sweeney, Extraction, film review, Gina Carano, Kellan Lutz, Movie review, thriller

By Heinrich Domingo

Insecure films are easy to spot. They try to be everything all at once, and in the process, gets confused on what they really want to be. Extraction is this kind of film. It tries too hard to inject love, deceit, father-son relationship, betrayal, insurgence, and many others in a frail action tale. In the end, its plot holes gushes out of the movie’s weak spots revealing a story that is unwary of its intentions and unsure of its treatment.

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