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Touted as the ultimate date night movie, “The Loved One”, released around Valentine’s Day, is not the romcom movie Filipinos would happily swoon over. Sure, there’s the cast: heartthrob Jericho Rosales as “Eric”, pretty actress and host Anne Curtis as “Ellie”, and beloved Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray in her debut role. However, “The Loved […]
Box of Kleenex, check. Younger ading (Ilocano for sistuh) beside me for moral support, check. That’s basically how I walked into “meet, greet & bye” at Cineplex Mississauga in early December—and I’m glad I did, because this movie does not go easy on your puso (heart). The film follows a K-drama-obsessed mama whose only wish, […]
In “Secrets We Keep”, a six-episode Danish thriller, we follow a mystery that unfolds around Ruby, a Filipina nanny who disappears from a rich Copenhagen household. Angel (played by Pinay newcomer Excel Busano) is another nanny whose life is deeply intertwined with her employers. The series peels back layers of privilege, exposing how domestic workers—often […]
Newly released six-episode Netflix thriller “Secrets We Keep” is as disturbing as it is brilliant. Full of unexpected twists and turns, the series keeps you guessing until the very last episode, right up to the last frame, as to what happened to a Filipina nanny in an affluent Danish household. So many themes are touched […]
