Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Not necessarily the most subtle, but sends the message across as succinctly as possible. I always admire the “weird” way that Bong Joon-ho does social commentary through his films. This one is an examination of the human condition: from greed and thirst for power, of trying to forcefully grab spaces that don’t belong to them, and the constant dehumanization of workers.

  One line that struck me in this film was this: from now on, you have to get used to…

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  Sosyal Climbers 2025

  ★ Watched 05 Mar 2025

  Tawang-tawa ako don sa lumakad sa bubog tapos yong continuity sa buhok ni Jennings. Magaling talaga sila parehas at malakas pa rin chemistry nila, pero natawa na lang talaga ako sa mga ganap lalo na yong ending. Also bakit ganon, hindi siya visually mukhang film — sobrang bland ng shots 😭

Popular reviews

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  One Fine Spring Day 2001

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Feb 2020 2

  “How could love disappear so fast?”
  “I don’t want to drink. Because if I get drunk, I’ll feel like she’s waiting for me again.”

  He loves ardently and wholly; she can’t. He believes she belongs to him; she doesn’t. The bitter reality of life is, no matter how much we try to make things go our way, some of them just don’t—including willing someone to love you back in the same amount as you do, when they don’t. And it…

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  Radio Romance 1996

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Apr 2021

  “I can do all your assignments. I can do all your term papers. But I cannot grow up for you.”

  I liked Radio Romance a lot — pero makikita mo talaga ang difference sa perspective ng mga burgis / middle class sa love at ang mga relationship problems nila vs us in the laylayan ano?

  Pero gusto ko yong dilemma ni Babsy na why settle for someone like Lester na manchild and puro asa lang sa’yo at walang sense of…