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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...

Reviving Old Blog entries: Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo(2006)/Sakal, Sakali, Saklolo (2007) both rated PG

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#KKK2006 Directed by:  Jose Javier Reyes Written by:  Joey Reyes and Mary Ann Bautista Starring: Judy Ann Santos Ryan Agoncillo Gina Pareño Gloria Diaz Juliana Palermo Lui Villaruz Tuesday Vargas Derek Ramsay Kat Alano Cacai/Kakai Bautista Cheena Crab Soliman Cruz Gerard Pizarras AJ Perez #SSS2007 ( source ) Written and Directed by Jose Javier Reyes Cast: AJ Perez, Ariel Ureta, Cacai Bautista, Derek Ramsay, Dominic Ochoa, Gerard Pizzaras, Gina Pareño, Gloria Diaz, Judy Ann Santos, Juliana Palermo, Kat Alano, Manny Castañeda, Robin Da Roza, Ryan Agoncillo, Soliman Cruz Both movies are entries for the Metro Manila Film  Festival.  KKK was shown Christmas 2006 and SSS was shown the following year, Christmas 2007. My blog entries both got lost in cyberspace.  I have them on file, but my NOTEBOOK is sort of obsolete, so I think I have to let professionals retrieve my files in the future. Good luck to me wi...

NBSB(No Boyfriend Since Birth) 2015

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( source ) Disclaimer:  This is more of a narrative than a review Don't always judge a movie by its trailer A trailer is what usually attracts a movie goer, but sadly, even if I know at least a couple who really want to watch this movie because of the trailer, it didn't entice us to watch it.  It wasn't bad , but...  Peace to the person or group of people who made the trailer...I don't have the right to criticize you, I know, but that's what we thought of the teaser. In any case, we found ourselves watching this movie because it had the perfect  time slot.  We had ample time to have dinner before going inside the theater. We were supposed to be somewhere else , but because of the super duper heavy traffic and the Metro Manila SKYWAY was closed for security reasons because of the APEC SUMMIT we found ourselves staying in the south. Imagine, it took us an hour to get to somewhere near the Skyway from SM City BF P'que.  It usually only takes minu...