Cinemalaya Sunday: Good, Okay, Greatish
Bwaya by Francis Pasion: Maganda. Film festival bait. The Agusan marsh looks gorgeous.
Ronda by Nick Olanka: Okay lang. The scene in which philandering policeman Carlos Morales is talking to his paramour on the phone is excellent.
Children’s Show by Roderick Cabrido: Bongga! Sumi-City of God, with those filters that make everything brown, but it works. Those kids are terrific. Watch it. Run.
The reviews are coming up.
Monday we’re doing chores and watching Guardians of the Galaxy again. This will put us in a happy mood for our next moviethon. Tuesday’s menu:
Sundalong Kanin – A period movie! What does the title mean? Rice Soldier? Like Seven Samurai, who get paid in rice to defend the village?
Separados – The title is spelled “s6parados” so we call it Sixparados. Edwin says it has “glossy production values, which may not be a bad thing.”
First Ko Si Third – Nova Villa and Freddie Webb! A Chicks to Chicks reunion. Max Tessier our grumpy French critic friend says Nova Villa looks like Giuletta Massina.
Hustisya – We hope the trailer is not an indication of how the movie will turn out, because we do not want to laugh at Nora Aunor.
What have you seen?
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
August 4th, 2014 at 12:09
Kasal is painful to watch. The long sex scene felt like watching a NatGeo docu titled “Gay Sex: This is how it looks like”.
“First ko si Third” is bittersweet and reminds me of “Bwakaw”. Nova Villa’s awesome. Someone give her an award.
(Hashtag unsolicited reviews, haha.)
August 5th, 2014 at 00:36
We’ve seen Dagitab, Ronda, and Children’s Show.
Dagitab tells a realistic, and mature way of dealing with issues in a relationship. There are many scenes that we think are unnecessarily long, however they still work. We love the scene on the beach. Superb acting, as usual, from Eula Valdez, and Nonie Buencamino.
Ronda builds up a story, brings us to the climax, and leaves us wanting more, at the same time makes us think that’s enough. We’re bothered by the slow driving of the patrol car. It was just too obvious there’s a car in front of it. We’re happy to see Bernardo Bernardo. We agree that that scene when Carlos Morales is talking on the phone is excellent.
Children’s Show is unexpectedly amazing. (We were not supposed to watch it because we didn’t like the title, and the movie poster. We took a risk when we bought the ticket.) Everything is great from casting to the story, from sound design to cinematography.