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SineBuano recommends HIMALA

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Ricky Lee’s Himala = The Placebo Effect??
I’m not sure how many people find the hysterics and shrilly wailing of people in Tagalog films appealing, but it tends to annoy me. But I think HIMALA is a very interesting character study. The prostitute’s lover and her future plans, the curious and troubled documentary filmmaker and the [...]

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Mr. Bean’s Holiday

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

I thought some of the gags were very episodic at first; and the ridiculously contrived turning point for the father losing his child. But you couldn’t go wrong if you have a movie with Willem Dafoe as an annoyingly pretentious filmmaker whose work is foiled by Mr.Bean in the end; a scene that brings payoff [...]

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