Film Reviews
In a film filled with excessive violence and horniness, director Emma Seligman says, "To hell with it.” Men have dominated this genre; now it's queer women's turn to get a slice of the cake, and eat it too.
Barbie underutilized a beautiful paradox: the younger Sasha outgrows Barbie, while the older Gloria finds solace in her. In this odd ballet of circumstances, Barbie is the cord connecting generations.
The tragedy of ‘Fanny’ is that they arrived too early and then arrived too late, but this documentary doesn’t offer a tale of wrong timing, but rather, a heartwarming ode to one of the forgotten pioneers of rock & roll.
‘The Batman’ creates a desolate environment that inhales fear and exhales vengeance, inviting us to deconstruct an erratic and tortured hero like we’ve never seen before.
‘Moral’ is an important piece of the feminist art in the country. It is a daring portrait of four women, each navigating the Filipino working and domestic life through the prism of a patriarchal society.
TV Reviews
Film And TV Features
‘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.
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.
Lists Features
From the profound humanism of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster to the uncanny campiness of Todd Haynes’ May December, here are the best films of 2023, according to our SINEGANG writers.