BIRDSHOT & SALVAGE: Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino Weekend Tales

I devoted the weekend in watching 2 films included in the ongoing Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino. I based my choice on the supposed quality of the films. Last Saturday, I watched the first, Mikhail Red's Birdshot, because I remembered reading not too long ago that it received a best Picture award somewhere (it turned out to be the Best Film of the Asian Future competition of the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival). On Sunday, the second, because of the supposed reputation of its director, Sherad Anthony Sanchez, whose films I still have to see. I love experimental films, I endured Raya Martin's Autohystoria (& that's a mean feat to anybody's book) but though I liked Birdshot, I lost patience with the second one midway & left the 6 people who shared the cold cinema with me.

  Birdshot's quiet laconic pace bored me for a while but the surprising texture of a rural Philippine film noir gripped me eventually. Salvage had no hook whatsoever to make me glued to my seat. Frankly, it turned me off so much I decided it was not really worth waiting for the supposed "surprising" climax. I was simply not interested anymore.

 After my experience with Salvage, I don't know if I will still risk watching any of the other entries. I might eventually but I'm still sweet-talking myself.


 Birdshot- directed by Mikhail Red
 

Salvage- directed by Sherad Anthony Sanchez

MOVIE TRAILER: EXTRA SERVICE Starring ARCI MUÑOZ, JESSY MENDIOLA & COLEEN GARCIA

A sexy welcome to 2017. May there be less eyesores in 2017...

Lol!

SEXY IS BACK! BUT BACKROW BLUES?: Coleman, Arci, Jessy @ ur "EXTRA SERVICE"

No doubt about it, Pinoy showbiz is regaining its glory days. Not only has the number of films being shot considerably increased but even the genres being offered have diversified. The backbone was the highly-successful Rom-com which understandably mostly pulled the fairer sex (and their hapless boyfriends) to flock the cinema. Now, it's the turn of the boys to be wooed by the film producers (and that means, the barkada will likely come along, and hopefully they will pull all their gf's with them).

Unfortunately, the back row of the balcony has long disappeared. Who ever thought the vaunted modern but cramped multiplexes could be so killjoy?

NO SEX SCANDAL YET: Sexy Jessy Mendiola

Let's take a break from our sabotage/nutcracking. I must admit this was the first time that local actress Jessy Mendiola  caught my attention. But the moment I read the screaming title of the email of my friend (he's hetero) in capital letters- YOU MUST POST THIS!-  I knew there must be something. You see, that was the first time he emailed a contribution for this blog. So I opened it and I readily agreed.  I don't usually follow the lists conducted by local magazines but apparently she is the new FHM Sexiest woman of the year. I must admit she's packing where it counts.

Wooh, I have another addition to my sex scandal wishlist...