Essays

My Dirty Little Secret (Part 2)

One time I forgot to bring my car home! I had a few (Okay, few is an understatement) beers and took the bus going home. I totally forgot I brought my car to work.

That’s the problem with getting wasted. You can’t help but forget things. (Mental note: Do not bring kids with me when drinking.)

My Little Gastronomic Issue

Anyway, I think my dislike for people posting food on Facebook to show off their culinary affluence is slowly enlarging into a misanthropy toward the whole of mankind. Okay, maybe not everyone. That would be too much hatred. Just, people who are on Facebook and Instagram. Now that I think about it, basically, just about everyone.

A Preamble To The Radically Hopeful

To my detractors: Taking me down has not only made me hard like ice but soft as wind and the sadness that endured is the same sadness that made everything less irrelevant. There. I’d like to keep things prosey when I’m mad. I find that it softens the blow and makes me look less angry.

Malcolm and Marie

This film then gives us that feeling of being able to look inside people’s lives and see the many aspects of how relationships can break down in a matter of minutes because of a single significant event in our lives. 

The Queen’s Gambit

An exemplary tale of a game of men made sexually palatable by a woman as we follow her ascent and rise over the realities of a patriarchal society, her inner demons, and for the chess-playing demography, the people’s awareness of fate.

Mr Robot

Imagine Neo (The Matrix) before taking the red pill, Tyler Durden’s ensuing empathy towards quasi-existentialism in Fight Club, throw in a subtle mix of Renton’s battle with addiction in Trainspotting and Joe Goldberg’s gripping narration in You and you got yourself one of the best TV series that you can get your hands on in …

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Hello Love Goodbye

Forget about the common adequacy Pinoy films are usually associated with. We may suck in action and sci-fi movies but we can definitely make quality films in other genres. Like this one.

Baduy na kung baduy, but this is a movie you should watch. 

Well. at least, once.

Isa Pa, with Feelings

It just might be a homage to the 1986 movie Children of a Lesser God, but Isa Pa with Feelings is the Pinoy counterpart that doesn’t disappoint but levels up in almost every cinematic angle you can think of. Of course, Carlo Aquino is no Marlee Matleen