(This is the third installment of my four-part series on this year’s Cinemalaya full-length finalists. For the previous coverage, check…
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(This is a continuation of my ongoing series on this year’s Cinemalaya full-length finalists. For Part 1, click here.) If…
Hanging out on social media horror forums led to me “Martyrs,†the second film I’ve seen in the past year…
Time can be an unsparing villain or an angelic savior in Christian Petzold’s films. In his enigmatic period-piece “Phoenix†(2014),…
Every Cinemalaya year seems to arrive with its own pulse, a mood that quietly defines the lineup. If last year’s…
The too-early whispers from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival had a then-unheralded Mascha Schilinski in the frontrunner position for the…
Louisa Connolly-Burnham’s short film “The Ceiling†is hard to watch. Its subject matter (date rape) is handled in such a…
There are some films that resist the urge to introduce themselves or announce their themes. Instead, they wait quietly and…
Watching “Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream†is the kind of experience that leaves you sitting with a knot in your stomach long…
I’ve always been a sucker for stories about misfit teenagers, the kind who see the world pressing down on them…