We beg to differ.
I happen to be one of those lucky enough to make it to a screening of the movie “Metro Manila.” Starring Jake Macapagal and Althea Vega, it won the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. I’ll try to figure out why. Let me rehash the synopsis from Benign0’s preview. METRO MANILA centers around…
While watching Immigration officials stopping former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from leaving the country on TV, I marveled at the people who would scream at the top of their lungs at the TV screens, saying something like, “catch that thief! jail her! Hahaha!” I thought, that was such immature or trivial behavior. As if they…
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