Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Corpus Christi 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Dec 2020

  SINEGANG Weekly Pick #17
  Recommended by: Gieselle

  “Doesn’t matter where you’re coming from. All that matters is where you’re going.”

  Corpus Christi deals with an unexpectedly complex subject matter. What if your local priest, who is a celebrated pariah and a self-made cult of personality, is secretly fake? This film dives deep into both the personal lies and struggles and the external obligations and challenges that plague our ex-convict and anti-hero Daniel. Truth be told, I’m extremely impressed with this…

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  An Elephant Sitting Still 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Apr 2021

  The world is a wasteland.

  To describe this movie is to describe the shared feeling of youthful disillusionment. It is the banner around which An Elephant Sitting Still drags its feet around. It's an unapologetically slow and subservient drama about broken families and neglected characters; powerless youth; disillusioned and pessimistic descriptions of the world and of the self. It’s unfortunate that Hu Bo left us too early, but his sole film is essentially one of the greatest cinematic ballads ever…

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  An adorable fable, so to speak. Philosophically ticklish too! Thanks Bong!

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  The Hole 1998

  ★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  So hard to watch, though perhaps having seen The End months ago gave me the clarity necessary to appreciate The Hole's bleakness and what it conveys.

  That being said, there's an endless sorrow espoused in The Hole that definitely predates all the madness wrought about by the COVID years. In 2025, we are living in the aftermath of it, as opposed to the process. The Hole is certainly fixed at a point in time, and accidentally becomes a little outdated,…

Popular reviews

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  That Thing Called Tadhana 2014

  ★★★ Watched 09 May 2021 3

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  Bona 1980

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Aug 2024

  It starts with a procession, and ends in baptism.