Tag: cinema

Filipino movie and TV actors don’t know how to play rich people

April 30, 2023April 30, 2023 benign0 14 Comments

Many people have been wondering why Filipino films and television shows are such massive cringes. On the surface, the most obvious observation is that the emotional hooks used by the template plots of these products are overused and obsolete. Shouting matches, loud monologues, and slapstick chatter pepper stories about “love” between characters from opposite sides…

Business, Culture, Media

The demise of ABS-CBN will herald a mass media renaissance in the Philippines!

July 10, 2020 benign0 2 Comments

If the community of content producers, artists, and creative types would care to pause a bit and step out of the herd mentality that is the lunacy of their “solidarity” with embattled ABS-CBN, they will see the vast opportunities that await their craft with the demise of the Philippines’ biggest mass media empire. For so…

Culture, Media

#ABSCBN products are mental health HAZARDS designed to elicit Filipinos’ TINGALA Reflex

May 14, 2020 benign0 15 Comments

It took many years for Big Tobacco to be called out as an immoral industry — one that for years legally sold addictive poison to consumers who did not know better. In that context, perhaps this the time to really examine what media conglomerate ABS-CBN are really doing to Philippine society. ABS-CBN products are, at…

Culture, Media

Mass entertainment in the Philippines should be controlled to prevent further dumbing down of Filipinos

January 19, 2020 benign0 28 Comments

No Filipino will disagree that one of the biggest problems the Philippines faces is the quality of thinking of its populace. This is specially critical in a democratic society where popularity is power and specifically in the Philippines where leaders are elected by popular vote. What is interesting to note is that the institutions of…

Government, Media

Why “First real Pinoy Marvel hero” Wave (a.k.a. Pearl Pangan) is unhealthy for Filipino Pride

May 4, 2019 benign0 19 Comments

First Filipinos latched on to “heroes” who were actual real people — like Manny Pacquiao and, before him, the late former Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. Many more, past, present, and future, are subjects of Filipinos’ idolatry to the detriment of a now-anemic resolve to face real national issues using real resources and capability. Perhaps…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour

#ABSCBNBall2018 exhibits all that is wrong about the way Philippine showbiz portrays “class”

September 30, 2018 Kate Natividad 6 Comments

I don’t know about everyone else but I think that whole “fashionista” show-and-tell last night dubbed the ABS-CBN Ball was damn tacky. I mean, there’s a fine line between edgy and plain old trying hard. These after all are showbiz types — kiddies dressed under the guidance of showbiz costume designers who shape the caricatures…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Not really an “Asian” movie but I’m excited to see Crazy Rich Asians nonetheless

August 22, 2018August 22, 2018 Kate Natividad 37 Comments

I’m gonna see Crazy Rich Asians as soon as I can. How can I not? It’s been promoted ’til Kindgom come! There’s also all that hype surrounding Queen of Philippine Media Kris Aquino’s millisecond appearance. Lol! If I were her I wouldn’t make such a big deal of it. When you are The Queen and…

Culture, Film Review, Glitz and Glamour

Mike De Leon vs Atom Araullo spat and the narcissistic journalism of Rappler

May 31, 2018 benign0 5 Comments

One thing that could be gleaned from the spat between Citizen Jake director Mike De Leon and its star Atom Araullo is how people from privileged backgrounds see the world. De Leon’s observations published on a Facebook post addressed to Araullo offers interesting insight into what it is like to work with a joirnalist-turned-celebrity —…

Glitz and Glamour, Media