It’s a busy month for Filipino movies this September. Gino M. Santos’ Ex with Benefits is already killing in box office, while critical reception is looking to be a bust. I’m yet to see the new film from the director of #Y, which I liked if only for its candor observations on millennials, but as yet
Tag: Roy Sevilla Ho
Piolo Pascual-starrer ‘Silong’ gets nationwide release
Silong is the debut feature of Roy Sevilla Ho and Jeffrey Hidalgo, the latter perhaps familiar to many as an actor and musician. The film premiered at the recently concluded Cinemalaya Film Festival and to positive reviews, including our own Kenneth Borlan, who notes: “The layers in Hidalgo-Ho tandem remove the patented
Silong
To be among the fortunate few to see Silong in August 14th as Cinemalaya’s closing film – tense days followed as I continue to abridge the experience. There is this distinctive atmosphere of muddle, consternation, and abysmal expectation of how the film looks like or how this review will echo. Silong is shrouded
