For the longest time, Philippine cinema has danced around certain subjects; tiptoeing past them, softening their impact, or ignoring them…
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“Stand by Me” turns 39 years old this summer. I first covered the Gen-X classic in 2012; one of my…
There are few things that pull me in faster than films that engage, head-on, with culture, history, and the ways…
During the opening passages of Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of “The Life of Chuck” by Stephen King, panic and melancholy spread around…
“The Visitor” is a 2007 indie arthouse film that deals in simplistic reality. It was written and directed by Tom…
Best described as “Girls Will Be Girls” but from a Māori perspective, screenwriter and cartoonist Maddie Dai’s feature length outing…
In the past five years, only a handful of movies have really earned the label “blockbuster” in spirit, not just…
Love, in its most untamed and consuming form, has always haunted the edges of human understanding. It is a force…
In “Les Trois Valseurs,” Agnès, a heartbroken widow shares a night with Jean, a male sex worker. She only asks…
Given the utter brutality and lack of morals in Nicholas Winding Refn’s 2011 film “Only God Forgives,” his 2011 film…