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For the supposedly scary parts, the old horror movie staples—strange voices, sudden noises, things turning themselves on—are executed so sloppily, they’re almost laughable. I wish they were laughable, at least I might’ve been entertained. Instead of atmosphere, we get a gray palette that makes everyone look like a corpse, and doors creaking open and shut, as if the entity were some kind of door-humping poltergeist. People are always taking baths; I’m guessing this is supposed to parallel the constant rains, but I am possessed by the need to submit a column.

Read our review at InterAksyon.com.

The Cinema One Originals Festival is on from November 11 to 19, 2013 at Glorietta, Trinoma, and Robinson’s Galleria cinemas. For information on the films and complete schedules, go to their Facebook page.

Click on the image to read the screening schedule at Glorietta.

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Photograph: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters in the Guardian.

The Guardian’s environment editor John Vidal:

We don’t yet know the death toll or damage done, but we do know that the strength of tropical storms such as Haiyan (Yolanda) or Bopha is linked to sea temperature. As the oceans warm with climate change, there is extra energy in the system. Storms may not be increasing in frequency but Pacific ocean waters are warming faster than expected, and there is a broad scientific consensus that typhoons are now increasing in strength.

From being top of the global political agenda just four years ago, climate change is now barely mentioned by the political elites in London or Washington, Tokyo or Paris. Australia is not even sending a junior minister to Warsaw.

Read Typhoon Haiyan: What really alarms the Filipinos is the rich world ignoring climate change.

For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.

Nguni’t para malubos ang lahat, para maramdaman kong naiibsan ang aking kalungkutan, ang natitira na lamang na maaari kong asahan ay ito: na sa araw ng aking bitay ay maraming manonood, at sasalubungin nila ako ng malakas na alulong ng pagkasuklam.

Stay tuned.

Photo by Robby Villabona. Unedited.

An epigraph in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch

The other day we were discussing different types of therapy. We’ve always been curious about psychotherapy, but have never tried it. If we were completely sane we’d have nothing to write about.