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Esoterika: Maynila (Elwood Perez, Philippines, 2014) SYNOPSIS: Drawing from his personal adventures, film director, Elwood Perez veers away from standard-issue plot conventions in this paradoxically moral tale of a young man en route to becoming a creative artist. (SOURCE: Cinema Crush ) WRITER: Elwood Perez , Jessica Zafra STARS: Ronnie Liang, Vince Tañada, Federico Olbes RATING: 3/5 Violator (Dodo Dayao, Philippines, 2014) SYNOPSIS: Manila is caught in the worst typhoon in its history, and the world feels like it’s coming to an end. And when 5 men find themselves stranded inside a local police station, a mysterious prisoner is brought in, and the men discover that he may or may not be the devil. (SOURCE: Rappler ) WRITER: Dodo Dayao STARS: Joel Lamangan, Victor Neri, RK Bagatsing, Anthony Falcon, Timothy Mabalot, Andy Bais RATING: 5/5 Red (Jay Abello, Philippines, 2014) SYNOPSIS: After a drug bust goes terribly wrong,a local fixer named Red becomes th...

      

  From Cinema One Originals   This year's Cinema One Originals will be very intense. Well, according to the photo above. But after I watched the trailer , the only thing I can say is this: Siguradong ubos ang ipon ko dito. There are some p retty interesting titles like Ritesh Batra's The Lunch Box , Diao Yinan's Black Cole, Thin Ice , and a lot more. Here are the list of the movies (according to the trailer): COMPETITION FILMS: The Babysitters (Paolo O'Hara) Bitukang Manok (Alec Figuracion) Esprit de Corps (Kanakan-Balintagos) Hindi Sila Tatanda (Malay Javier) Lorna (Sigrid Andrea Bernanrdo) Red (Jay Abello) Seoul Mate (Nash Ang) Soap Opera (Remton Siega Zuasola) That Thing Called Tadhana (Antoinette Jadaone) Violator (Dodo Dayao) BEST OF ASIAN FILMS Black Cole, Thin Ice (Diao Yinan, China) Coming Home (Zhang Yimou, China) Haemoo (Sea Fog) (Shim Sung-Bo, South Korea) Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-Soo, South Korea) The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra, ...