Time has struck into the annual season of lists, where selectionis spontaneously divorced from apt and valid criterion; where unjust remarks are made; and people deeming one list fallacious, some reducing others as cheaply formatted posts of embedded film trailers. Amid (and despite) all this commotion, it has become my
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This year’s Sineng Pambansa has been reissued ‘Frightfest,’ playing right now in select Ayala Cinemas
This year’s government-backed film festival has not been particularly good. In my report of the fest, I expressed my contempt for three-quarters of the whole lot, which premiered only four films including Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes’s remake of their own 1988 cult-favourite T’yanak. It is the only film that
#SinengPambansa Horror Plus Film Festival is no Oz, all Kansas
Be cautioned of three-quarters of this year’s edition of Sineng Pambansa Film Festival, brazenly subtitled with ‘Horror Plus’ like it had been last year with ‘Master’s Edition.’ Those who saw last year’s lineup of films will hear the vivid sarcasm to this statement. And if that previous fest had lost
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Of the plethora of think-pieces that John Carpenter’s Halloween has inspired over the decades, one thought remains most astute of the masked killer Michael Myers. He is not the predator, nature is—because it has allowed his existence, this err. The scene towards the film’s end perfectly illustrates my point: Myers,
