We’ve only just hit the third month of this year and yet the slate of films that came out in the first quarter had us elated. From local releases such as Alone/Together, Born Beautiful, Elise among others to Hollywood blockbusters like Captain Marvel and Alita: Battle Angel have made great returns in
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Philippines’ bet for Academy’s Best Foreign Language
Granted that Filipino indie films can now easily sneak into the mainstream, several films this year got recognition whether in the local box office or in the international arena. Still, that won’ an assurance to be our entry at the Academy Awards. As we get closer to the Oscars season,
‘Pamilya Ordinaryo’ to have its commercial run on August 31
Cinephiles, I come bearing good news. Fresh from its Cinemalaya win, Eduardo Roy Jr.’s award-winning drama Pamilya Ordinaryo is going to have a run at commercial theaters later this month. The film, which follows Ronwaldo Martin and Hasmine Killip as teenage vagabonds whose infant child gets kidnapped, is easily one of the
Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival 2016 winners
The awards night of the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival wrapped last night, and we’ve got the full list of winners. Concluding its twelfth year run, Cinemalaya proved that it’s only going to get bigger from here, announcing that 2016 holds the biggest audience turnout in the festival’s history. Of course,
Pamilya Ordinaryo
The everyday routine of a Filipino family is founded on endurance and survival: surviving the traffic during rush hours, and surviving to make good on their respective jobs; and enduring the heat, the exhaustion, and the every struggle to make ends meet. That is of course unless you are privileged
Cinemalaya 2015 screens its best films in retrospect
For the past eleven years, as a cinephile in the Philippines, going to Cinemalaya is like going to Pilgrimage. You get to watch films that rarely make it to the chopping block of mainstream media; films that enrich the mind (in my perspective, at least), inform the public of the existential
