In one scene in Josh Radnor’s Liberal Arts, a character, frustrated over the success of a certain sparkling vampire book, asks, “So when millions of people like something, that means it’s good?” To which the other character wittily replies, “No, it means millions of people like it. These books make
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Para Sa Hopeless Romantic
Hope falters Why do we write? We write to express ideas. We write to amplify the voice of the unheard. We write to mend our broken selves. Heavily based on her ill-fated love with Nikko (James Reid) during their high school years, the main protagonist, Becca (Nadine Lustre), pens a
Talk Back and You’re Dead
There is but a single thread stringing together the story of Talk Back and You’re Dead, thus far the latest amongst the Wattpad-imports currently most ubiquitous in Philippine theatres. The film, essentially a tween girl’s romantic reverie strung nervily after another, incidentally resonates how random teenage romances tend to become. But
Diary ng Panget
The general observation for Andoy Ranay’s Diary ng Panget is that it can be viewed as a substandard Cinderella byproduct — and it is — where the youth revolt for reasons no greater than excess pimples and earlier Mac book generations. Though one particular scene gleams in utter radiance and nags of biting reality: in a student council
