Now in its third year, the Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival is still a relatively young player in the Philippine festival…
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On September 20, 1982, military forces raided a house in Davao City where Edgar “Edjop†Jopson was staying. According to…
“Do you believe an app can control us?†Detective Mijares asks the question somewhere inside the nocturnal haze of John…
Virginia “Biring†Divinagracia has already been told no several times, but she keeps dressing up and trying again. At the…
This family seems to eat unresolved traumas and secrets for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It takes Giancarlo Abrahan’s “Mag-iina” (Lit.…
What the hell was Uncle Paul doing with that dog? It’s the question hanging over the first stretch of Dustin…
The money is already there. That’s what makes “2 Valid IDs” so infuriating. Sylvia (Marietta Subong, better known as Pokwang)…
“Never let anyone intimidate you,†a father tells his young son near the beginning of JL Burgos’ “Ganggang.” It would…
David Corpuz’s “Tayo Lang ang Nakakaalam” (Lit. Only Known to Us) begins by letting us get a family wrong. Inside…
“Mabuhay,†a tour guide (Pipay Kipay) tells a busload of wealthy Chinese visitors on their way to a Philippine country…