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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  *Was an 6.5, now a 10/10; holy shit! Is this what Wong Kar-wai meant by: "Cinema Aftertaste*

  My rating wouldn't be this high if I hadn't developed my love and admiration for the 70s, especially my addiction to disco music during that era, which was called the "disco craze" back then. On the other hand, you can see glimpses of PTA's 8 previous films here, he took pieces from them and put them together until he formed an offering and…

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  Opening Night 1977

  ★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  5/10

  I'm sure tataas pa ito.

Popular reviews

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  Hot Summer 1990

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  8/10

  SO BAD IT'S GOOD!

  An endless plot holes that embodies every common trope, which Philippine teleseryes would later capitalize on in the following decades. Even if they mix up those elements just to cover up the real ingredients, it's still obvious in the nonsense and changing interactions of the characters with each other that can be seen with many logical problems. Paul Thomas Anderson is right, family is the juiciest thing to explore because there's so much to dig into.

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  The 70s 2002

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  10/10

  happy 39th anniversary for the EDSA people power revolution

  "... sinasanay sa karahasan ang lalaki sa sarili niyang kultura."