Lessons From the School of Inattention

Jungle Love  (Sherad Anthony Sanchez, 2012) At first glance, Sherad Anthony Sanchez’s Jungle Love seems needlessly indulgent. Rebelli...

El Presidente  (Mark Meily, 2012) A lot has already been said and written about the historical inaccuracies of Mark Meily’s El...

Ad Ignorantiam (Armando Lao, 2012) Armando Lao’s Ad Ignorantiam can be divided into three unequal parts. The first part, tedi...

Indelible Memories from 2012 by Francis Joseph A. Cruz There isn’t any other year in Philippine cinema where the aroma of d...

2012: Highlights in Philippine Cinema  It was a year marked by struggles. 2012 saw many independently-produced films compete a...

Sinapupunan  (Brillante Mendoza, 2012) International Title: Thy Womb Sinapupunan ( Thy Womb ) opens with a woman giving bir...

Melodrama Negra (Maribel Legarda, 2012) Like Loy Arcenas, Maribel Legarda has several years’ worth of theater experience to gu...

Philippine Film Awards, in a Rotten Nutshell by Francis Joseph A. Cruz It is quite strange that for a country whose movie i...

Slumber Party (Emmanuel dela Cruz, 2012) Emmanuel dela Cruz’s Slumber Party is a film of undeniable charms. It revels in colo...

Taglish (Gym Lumbera, 2012) In response to a query as to when he felt his feature film was already finished, director Gym Lumb...