MMFF Review: 'One More Try' - Bound to the Ground

Ruel S. Bayani's One More Try  has an interesting premise, but it is bound by its own loudness. Crazy enough, it brought home many award...

MMFF Review: 'El Presidente' - Overwhelming Weight

Follow these two steps carefully. Step 1: Skim through your grade-school to high school history books; and Step 2: Rush to the nearest theat...

MMFF Review: 'Sisterakas' - Diminishing Satire

As far as joint features by Vice Ganda ( Praybeyt Benjamin ) and TV/film director Wenn Deramas ( This Guy's In Love With You Mare ) go, ...

MMFF Review: 'Sossy Problems' - Distasteful Indolence

Andoy Ranay's  Sossy Problems (or Sosy Problems , but "sosy" isn't actually the correct spelling, is it?)   is an indolent...

MMFF Review: 'Si Agimat, Si Enteng at Si Ako' - Tired

A couple of writer friends told me that "platform" is very important in being published. A platform is basically the writer's ...

MMFF Review: 'Shake Rattle and Roll 14' - Inept

Chito S. Roño ( The Healing )  beckons the directing duties to all three segments of this year's Shake Rattle and Roll  (aka The Invasio...

MMFF Review: 'The Strangers' - Built Up For Corrosion

More than what is on the surface - handsome visuals and imposing cinematography - Lawrence Fajardo's The Strangers  boasts of formidable...

MMFF Review: 'Thy Womb' is a Laudable Ethnographic Drama

Meritorious filmmaker Brillante Ma. Mendoza justify his vehemence in crafting nonetheless powerful tales like Thy Womb , a movie challenged ...