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MMFF 2016 Movie Review: ‘Sunday Beauty Queen’

Published by Ely Valendez

‘SUNDAY BEAUTY QUEEN’ is the sincerest film in this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF)’s line up of entries, if not the most heartwarming of them all.

MMFF 2016 Movie Review: ‘Kabisera’

Published by Ely Valendez

HAVING THE SUPERSTAR in the film about Extra-Judicial Killings, which is definitely the most relevant topic in the Philippines today, didn’t advance ‘Kabisera’ at all.

MMFF 2016 Movie Review: ‘Saving Sally’

Published by Ely Valendez

Definitely visually stunning, the lone animated film in this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival, ‘Saving Sally,’ is a breath of fresh airs to the local filmmaking.

Vince and Kath and James starring Joshua Garcia, Julia Barretto, and Ronnie Alonte.

MMFF 2016 Movie Review: ‘Vince and Kath and James’

Published by Ely Valendez

STAR CINEMA FINALLY got a good romantic comedy film-entry at the Metro Manila Film Festival.

MMFF 2016 Movie Review: ‘Die Beautiful’

Published by Ely Valendez

BEYOND THE MAKE-UP transformations, ‘Die Beautiful’ shows what consists a gay man by allowing viewers to journey with him from being an unaccepted person at home and a victim of sexual abuse, to becoming a beauty queen, if not to becoming a total transwoman.