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What ‘Better Call Saul’ Does Better Than ‘Bad’
In this landscape of unoriginality, Better Call Saul makes it mark by giving fans the benefit of familiarity but also introducing never-before-seen emotional depths to a character that merely served as a comic relief.
Sullivan's Travels: Personal reflections on screenwriters, screwball comedies, Sturges' characters, and shaky critiques from Hollywood
Sullivan's Travels' simplistic final grace note only reminds us of how we've long since strayed from the path of comedy as a means of pathos. And if laughter won't wholly provide us with amnesia from our grim realities, it’ll at least make this exhausting thing we call "life" less strenuous for about 90+ minutes
Try considering 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' aside from 'Thor: Love and Thunder' this week
‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ is lightning in a bottle, a recognizable story of Asian familial love and upheaval. Crucially, it gives cinema-going Filipinos a choice other than deciding between Thor at 3:00 PM, Thor at 6:00 PM, and maybe even Thor at 10:45 PM.
Longing for Love, Pick Me Gay: Understanding Myself and Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s ‘Like Grains of Sand’
The film is full of confessions. Perhaps, the characters think that doing such would heal their “medical” loneliness. To define, confession is a risk. Confessing does not guarantee an answer. Confession does not guarantee a favorable answer. The act of truth-telling entails uncertainty. If that uncertainty remains unresolved, looming anxiety will exist forever.
A Trip to the MET
In light of the Manila Metropolitan Theater’s recent reopening, Jay of the Editorial Board takes a trip to the cultural space and shares his thoughts of being inside and watching a film there.
Taming the Dog in ‘The Power of the Dog’: On the atmospheric illustration of power and manipulation
Slowly, the rabbit becomes Phil, falling into the trap of Peter as he develops an elevated sense of desire. Perhaps, a romantic attachment towards him. Hoping for a parallel situation, between what happened to him and Bronco Henry. An uncomfortable situation due to age differences, a predatory relationship.
Goodbye, Dragon Inn and the elegiac ruminations on cinematic space, time, and the self
'Goodbye, Dragon Inn' is about a movie theatre haunted by ghosts of the past, yet they are relived and celebrated through film.
Let’s talk about the Spider-Man: No Way Home vs. MMFF debacle—constructively.
The latest MMFF issue raises a serious question: Is there still space for local films in cinemas when the demand for the webcrawler is at a record high? Perhaps it’s time to confront this dilemma between foreign and local films once more.
Red Notice (2021) and the Gray Area of Film Marketing Stunts
The latest marketing campaign for Red Notice (2021) recently sparked controversy and a discussion must be done in regards to the implications of film marketing stunts.