film

  • Ron Watches The Dog Stars

    While I’ve made a few movie reviews during the course of running this blog, most of the ones I watch in the cinemas are because they’re free and part of my day job. The economy is shit everywhere, so I can’t just be shelling out money! All of this to say that the reason why…

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  • Ron Watches Quezon

    I was already planning on watching this anyway, but the recent controversy just pushed me to actually go outside my hole yesterday and watch a film inside an actual movie theater!

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  • I was a literal student when I watched Freaky Friday. Imagine that. But even if it’s been literal decades since it was on the big screen, there are still bits and pieces of it that have remained not just in my head, but in pop culture. That gif of Jamie Lee Curtis saying she’s the…

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  • Katrina Ramos Atienza’s Well Played, the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, and multiple calls for submissions in this week’s edition.

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  • Okay, so I was fully intending to watch this anyway, but maybe a little later in the week, but I had one of those rare moments where I wanted to go out just because and not because I had an errand to run, so why not watch this while I’m out?

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  • Okay, so this was supposed to be for yesterday, but I ended up doing something else so you’re getting this today instead. Let’s go!

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  • Here’s another documentary that I wanted to watch during an important time for the fandom — Dream Week, specifically — but life and an actual paying job got in the way. But I am putting in extra work to get this out so it isn’t too late!

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  • Ron Watches J-Hope In The Box

    The past week was Hope On The Stage ticketing in my country and unfortunately, I wasn’t able to secure any tickets by myself. So I’m doing the next best thing and watching his documentary on Disney+ instead.

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  • Your Week in Books #23

    Ateneo University Press sale, a Chocolat prequel, and activites at the Philippine Book Festival 2025 in this week’s edition.

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  • Full disclosure: I haven’t watched a lot of the Marvel films in the theater, ever since the pandemic. Just like a lot of people around the world, I’d gotten used to just watching movies on the television screen. The fact that Marvel put a little pause on production also helped out with that. So when…

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