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Recent reviews

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  The Boy Foretold By the Stars 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Dec 2020

  alam kong hindi siya sobrang malalim in terms of pag-discuss ng lgbt issues pero shuta kinilig ako. god when? kailan kaya ako masasabihan ng fuck it tas hahalikan with Ganung Feelings?

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  Fan Girl 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Dec 2020

  my favorite movie from tonet in her filmography so far. matapang ang pagkakagawa at matapang ang mensahe. turns the idea of "never medt your idols" on its head, tas may dagdag pang sociopolitical issues na nailahad. siguro kung mas naturol lang yung malawak na issue, 5 stars na 'to, pero siguro naayos naman kung may dagdag na 30 minutes sa pelikula. nonetheless maganda siyang isuri sa peministang pananaw, pero wala akong words para maarticulate yun. anyway, STAN CHARLIE DIZON. BEST ACTRESS OF 2020, RISING STAR, NORA AUNOR WHO chz

Popular reviews

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  The Kingmaker 2019

  ★★★★½ Added

  wow. what a chilling, moving portrait of a power-hungry woman.

  i remember crying at around the end of the movie. when the latter half transitioned to the repercussions of the marcos regime at present. my eyes started to water at the descriptions of torture during martial law, was crying during the scene of the children talking about the revised version of history of the marcos era, and was full-on sobbing during the highlighting of the EJKs under duterte. it brought…

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  The Handmaiden 2016

  ★★★★★ Added

  maybe one day i'll make an entry diving deeper into how the inundated pain of sex and pleasure for hideko in her youth made her sexual awakening with sookee all the more cathartic and pleasurable ,,, hideko be like oh shit sex feels good with someone i like? wHAT THE FUCK????

  and maybe i'll talk about how the male gaze of the film (in visual language) is directly challenged by the narrative and if ur a man who found this titillating you should probably get the fate of the creepy ass count and uncle BUT THAT'S JUST ONE DAY

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