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Vengeance Is Mine 1984

★★★★★ Watched 14 Jan 2023

A lost film of uncanny comic touch and cerebral drama. The restored 35mm print I watched is so far my 2023 film viewing highlight. An unmissable, unclassifiable film. Trish van Devere was singular. A
Leonor Will Never Die 2022

★★★★½ Watched 06 Oct 2022

The Blacklist as a film. A capsule of playfulness in retro-stylized meta-memories. There is a strong Ishmael Bernal-esque reverence to its behind-the-scenes and Leonor as a woman and as a creative has spun colorful vignettes of what she is to her family. What no one clocked yet is how Ang Pagbabalik ng Kwago is a recreation of Lino Brocka's Jaguar. And what a fantastic feat overall. It takes genius to insert artistic abstraction without failing a studio gambit. A-

Respeto 2017

★ Watched 13 Aug 2017 3

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Monteras II had great mise en scène. But I was angered by its treatment of a fairly problematic appropriation on the conventions of the hip-hop scene that in itself is anti-gay and anti-women. You have an anti-hero at its center whose determination skewed schematic moments of character development (i.e. his idea of cypher would be to vilify a woman about her weight; he let a woman be raped and in his introspection, just cried! ("i can't do anything," he wailed,…
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness 2017

★★★★★ Watched 26 Oct 2017

George Orwell stated it well, that the most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. This is destructive cinema. This is reconstruction. This is colonialism. This is Philippine cinema under this president. This is not a film by Khavn. A