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Outside: Battling the Monsters Within

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxzwfbD26Ec DESPITE THE hushed atmosphere, an unsettling feeling accompanies the silence and the real horror is invisible to the naked eye. Outside haunts the screen as the camera widens its shots, capturing vast sugar cane farms and a rugged car that stands out in the isolated area. A family can be seen beside…

Lolo and the Kid: Ceasing Cycles and Forging Futures

https://youtu.be/tILXTdgE47E?si=FiokBoDv1PkArRO9 MOST FILMS that represent Filipinos at the margin follow a similar theme: portraying the poor as people with good conscience to counterbalance their distorted sense of morality. Lolo and the Kid, which uses the streets as the stage for the dramatic and wayward lives of its characters, distinguishes itself from that formula.…

Hayop Ka! The Nimfa Dimaano Story: Romantically Rigid

by JUSTIN ANDREW CRUZANA photo taken from Netflix FILIPINO AUDIENCES naturally cling to wish-fulfillment than realism when it comes to romance. Viewers are lovestruck at the idea of multi-millionaire men falling deeply in love with working-class women. Hayop Ka! The Nimfa Dimaano Story follows those exact plotlines, spinning in its own…

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