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Erik Matti's BuyBust (2018) Graded A by the Film Ratings Board/Cinema Evaluation Board

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This is a poster for  BuyBust . The poster art copyright is believed to belong to the distributor of the item promoted, Viva Films, the publisher of the item promoted or the graphic artist. Finally!  The much anticipated movie is now showing in theatres nationwide.  It is also a Cinemalaya entry, and I think there will be a gala night on Saturday at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. #RealityEntertainment The actors did not disappoint.  Anne Curtis did not overact and she was very convincing.  Dad said there were scenes that were too lengthy that if they cut it short, they would be more effective. There were scenes that if you think about it are very gory.  That's the harsh reality of life.  Inside the rest room the women were talking about Buy Bust like it was in a dystopian setting, like a Zombie Apocalypse or something. The people inside the theatre, including us, likened the people from Gracia ni Maria to the walking d...

WalWal: A Film by Jose Javier Reyes

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#WalWalOfficialMovieTrailer Adjective.  walwal . baggy; loose. haggard. having the tongue hanging out (as a tired dog)-Wiktionary (walwal is lawlaw in reverse), but Nestor Cuartero wrote in his article that Walwal” is derived from a popular slang that Millennials frequently use. The term is believed to emanate from the phrase “walang pakialam” and its closest English translation is “to get wasted” from drinking too much alcohol. DIRECTED BY JOSE JAVIER REYES a.k.a. Joey Reyes WRITTEN BY MARK GERARD FOLIENTE, who, at nineteen(19), currently holds the title to the youngest Filipino screenwriter for a full-length mainstream film feature A nineteen-year-old young man wrote the script for this movie and boy, we are impressed. People from our generation are the parents of the millennials and more often than not, millennials get judged like being "entitled" or people who do not know better than us. Incidentally, two friends of the family play the fathers of two...