Angeli Khang, Paolo Gumabao, Sid Lucero | Peek at the Fire (2022) Review Movie 

Original title:  Silip sa apoy

Peek at the Fire  ( Silip sa apoy  )

Synopsis :

Peek at the Fire (2022) Original title:  Silip sa apoy

Take a peek at the life of an unhappy housewife who finds passionate love from her neighbor and how their affair brings them closer to fire.

Genres    : Drama

Cast          : Angeli Khang, Paolo Gumabao, Sid Lucero, Jela Cuenca, Massimo Scofield, John Drey Guevarra, Dexter Doria

Director  : Mac Alejandre 

Vivamax’s Silip sa Apoy, the controversial erotic drama starring Angeli Khang, Sid Lucero, and Paolo Gumabao, will awaken the little peeping tom in all of us, or at least in audiences who will watch the movie on the streaming platform.

There’s a little voyeur in all of us. Whether you admit it or not, we’re obsessed with watching other people. Some even get satisfaction from peeping into a stranger’s life.

Written by Ricky Lee and directed by McArthur C. Alejandre, the drama centers on the dilemmas of   Emma (Angeli), a young woman who is tired of living with her alcoholic husband, Ben (Sid), for he becomes violent whenever he’s drunk, finds a knight in shining armor through Alfred (Paolo Gumabao). He is their new neighbor who lives beside them. Every night, Alfred peeps through the holes of the wall and witnesses marital abuse.

Alfred and Emma eventually fall for one another and have a secret relationship and Alfred promises that they would run away together to escape the wrath and violence of Ben, giving Emma hope to finally have the freedom she’s been longing for.

The film will not leave anything to your imagination but the young sexy actress explained that she never felt exploited while doing the scenes that could offend some conservatives.

“Sobrang alalay po sila sa akin dito. They never took advantage of me while doing our love scenes. Maingat po sila and pinoprotektahan nila ako and I really appreciate that,” she went on.

For Lucero, his role as a drunkard and an abusive husband has a specific message that they want to share with the audience.

“I think it’s high time people actually see how evil it is. I learned a lot doing this film and I certainly hope our audiences will learn a thing or two as well,” he said.

Playing another sexy role, Gumabao discussed that the challenge in his role lies in his task to show off some skin and still be able to act.

“They’re really pushing me to my limits and I’m being pushed outside of my comfort zone. It’s not only about showing skin. It takes a lot of focus to be butt naked and then still be able to act,” he stated.

“To date, this is the most challenging role I have played,” said Angeli, who already appeared in other titillating films Taya, Mahjong Nights, and Eva, during the movie’s online press event.

Gumabao also believes that the film will open a discussion about marital and domestic abuse.

“Cases of abuse are usually taboo. It’s either the victim is too afraid to speak up or nahihiya sila and it’s a shame really. I really hope this film would open up discussions about it,” Gumabao, who himself have starred in a string of sexy films of late, shared.

Described by the director as a dangerous yet alluring story.

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Kinsenas, katapusan Vivamax : Review Movie | Joko Diaz, Ayanna Misola, Jamilla Obispo 

Kinsenas, katapusan

A man falls for his daughter's classmate and they get entangled in a steamy affair. When their sexual desire becomes obsession, things turn crazy.

Director  : G.B. Sampedro

Stars        : Joko Diaz, Ayanna Misola, Jamilla Obispo 

Conrado Alonzo (Joko Diaz) is a happily married family man and big real estate entrepreneur. One day, his high school-aged daughter Ana (Madelaine Red) introduces him to his new classmate, Beth (Ayanna Misola). Beth immediately began texting Conrado, cajoling him with scathing messages and nude pictures. Soon they will have arrangements to see each other every 15th and 30th of every month for their secret sexual encounters.

The main plot is pretty thin, filled with several sexual encounters between a very naked Beth and a fully clothed Conrado. Director GB Sampedro fills the broadcast time with various other sex scenes. In addition to his voluptuous wife Melba (Jamilla Obispo), Conrado will also have some dalliance faux pas with his employee Karen (Janelle Tee). Passionate Beth also engages in intimate lesbian canoodling with her friend Carla (Angela Morena).

Her acting isn't really something to talk about. Joko Diaz's character, Conrado, is the one to seduce, but not so much for him to give up that there isn't much mental torment. Ayanna Misola is only 20 years old in real life, because she looks more mature than that with all that makeup. Being only in his second film, he still hasn't been able to take advantage of the psychological aspects of his character.

Some of Joko Diaz's contemporaries in the 90s we can see here, such as Kier Legaspi (as Conrado's partner, Mike), Jojo Abellana (as Conrado's star salesman, Miguel), Jao Mapa (as Beth's father) and even Jeric Raval ( as a murder victim in the film). opening scene). Much of the time and dialogue focuses on Conrado's faithful, strict spinster secretary Sita (Marissa Sanchez), but this character isn't really going anywhere.

Underlying all the sex scenes are serious mental health issues that are driving Beth to hell. He wasn't too careful that he took pills for depression. There are recurring flashbacks to certain highly traumatic events in his past that will haunt him for the rest of his life. There isn't much psychological explanation for Conrado's inability to resist having an affair with a minor, perhaps suggesting that men are naturally weak like that.

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I Love You, Hater Movie | Kris Aquino, Joshua Garcia | Comedy Romance

 I Love You, Hater Movie Kris Aquino, Joshua Garcia | Comedy Romance | Philippines

 I Love You, Hater Movie Philippines

¨“Movie Synopsis¨“

Joko is a boy trying to help his family survive, while Zoey is a girl hoping to prove herself to the world. Opportunity rises when Sasha is looking to hire a new personal assistant. Just one catch - they have to compete against each other! Will their own goals prevail, or will they set aside their differences and find true happiness and love in the end?

Special Movies: Kris Aquino, Joshua Garcia, Julia Barretto, Ronaldo Valdez, John Estrada, Al Tantay

Country : Philippines

Genre : Romance, Comedy

Production Co : Star Cinema – ABS-CBN Film Productions

'I Love You, Hater' is still a creature of formula but its charm makes it hard to hate 

There is one scene in Giselle Andres’ I Love You, Hater that makes the film almost worth all of its very many problems.

Noteworthy for several reasons

Zoey (Julia Barretto), clearly ecstatic, is in front of Joko (Joshua Garcia), her rival of several weeks for the position of assistant to media magnate Sasha (Kris Aquino).

She tells Joko of a sacrifice (which involved her lying to Sasha) and it weirdly does not result in the loving gratitude that she might have expected. Joko, dumbfounded because he knows how Zoey values honesty, begs her to tell him why she did it.

Out of perhaps the whole absurdity and foolishness of her feelings, Zoey starts to cry and confesses of her love for him despite knowing that he will never love her back because he is gay.

However, Joko is not gay.

He has been pretending to be gay just to have a stab at the lucrative job under Sasha. He also loves Zoey, and admits it, along with the fact that his being gay is all a ruse. Zoey doesn’t take it lightly, and her tears of self-pity quickly turn into tears of rage because of the betrayal of someone she has gotten to love to the point of embarrassing herself.

The scene is noteworthy for several reasons.

The scene allows Barretto, who has proven herself in previous films as a very fine actress, an opportunity to churn out a nuanced performance, one that is understanding of the subtle differences of various emotions conveyed by the act of crying.

Barretto’s performance however wouldn’t have been possible if the narrative, which is unabashedly convoluted right from the get go, didn’t unspool so relentlessly to reach such an emotionally affecting and surprisingly authentic confrontation between the two stunted lovers. 

At least at that point of the movie, it works.

It almost seemed that its roundabout way of tackling the value of truth within the realm of relationships, profession, and even sexuality makes complete sense. It almost seemed that some of its brushes with insensitivity when it comes to portraying gays or their manners of coming out had some more reason to them than an attempt at amplifying either drama or comedy, which the film commits to quite feverously. The film is funny when it needs to be. It shifts to romance or drama with ease and mechanicality.

In fact, it almost seemed that the film was making a real statement and not just some palatable moralism that has always been tied to these commercial love stories.

There certainly are surprising loose ends that provoke. Sideplots, like the ones involving Zoey’s estranged father or Sasha’s ex-husband, are never granted the resolutions expected from rom-coms that ambition happy endings for everyone.

This can be interpreted to point to a more progressive direction for the genre considering that the repercussions of the loose ends are to portray women realizing their worth despite the neglect of the men in their lives.

I Love You, Hater is still a creature of formula.

It avoids cutting deeper than it should. It dwells on easily recognizable dilemmas and all the loud feelings that come with them. This isn’t bad at all, but its being simplistic does lead to several problems, most especially if its conceit is grounded on issues that require a little bit more sensitivity. 

Oozing with charm

With all its problems, I Love You, Hater is a film that is hard to love.

Thankfully, it is also oozing with charm, making it a film that is harder to hate. 

Source – Rappler com

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The Significant Other Movie Tagalog Romance | Lovi Poe, Tom Rodriguez, Erich Gonzales

 The Significant Other (2018) The Significant Other Movie Tagalog Romance

¨“Movie Synopsis¨“

Directed by Joel Lamangan, “The Significant Other” tells the age-old tale of a cheating husband, in this case played by Tom Rodriguez (Edward), married to Lovi Poe’s Maxene - a top model who decided to temporarily walk away from her career to focus on her own family. Her eagerness to return back to the limelight prompted her husband to cheat with Erich Gonzales’ Nicole.

Distributed by Star Cinema, it’s advertised as a steamy love story, but in reality, it doesn’t have a strong romantic through-line to be called as such.But all hell breaks lose when they realize that they are in love with the same man (Tom Rodriguez).

Special Movies: Lovi Poe, Tom Rodriguez, Erich Gonzales

Country : Philippines

Genre : Drama, Romance

Production Co : Star Cinema – ABS-CBN Film Productions

The lie that Maxene created backs fire at her as her husband Edward(Tom) fell in love with Nicole thinking he is single the two commits to each other not knowing that She is bound to become a mistress. 

Will Maxene be able to bring her family back together? or will Edward choose Nicole?

The Significant Other is like any other mistress/infidelity movie that we saw before, the plot, the story line is almost similar to other movies of the same genre, but what separated it from the rest is the performance of the actors specially with Lovi Poe and Erich Gonzales. 

I've watched several movies of Lovi Poe and I must say that her performance in this movie is one of her best or I should say this is her best performance I've seen. I must say that I am agreeing to her that portraying the role of the wife is more difficult, but she was able to deliver it excellently.

Erich on the other hand was able to play with her character, she was able to make the character innocent and naughty at the same time, so far this is her most daring performance. 

The movie got some raunchy and wild love scenes that surprised me because I didn't expected it to be that way though I must commend Lovi, Tom, and Erich for doing such intimate scenes masterfully and still with taste and not going over board, also kudos to Direk Joel for that well executed love scenes in the movie. 

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 Sin Island " Movie Review 2018 " David (Xian Lim) , Kanika (Coleen Garcia)

Sin Island (2018)

¨“Movie Synopsis¨“

Sin Island is a 2018 Philippine erotic thriller film directed by Gino M. Santos, and starring Xian Lim, Coleen Garcia and Nathalie Hart. In the story, David (Lim) and Kanika (Garcia) are happily married, until Kanika's affair spoils their relationship, prompting David to start his own affair with Tasha (Hart). The film was released on February 14, 2018.

Special Movies: Coleen Garcia, Xian Lim, Nathalie Hart, TJ Trinidad, Bernard Palanca, Dominic Ochoa

Release : 2018-02-14

Country : Philippines

Genre : Thriller

Runtime : 106 min.

Production Co : Star Cinema – ABS-CBN Film Productions

"Sin Island" is the type of movie best seen when you're with someone, with your partner of friends. It's a sexy yet fun and exciting roller-coaster ride of emotions. An intoxicating serving of a film that is worth the price of admission.

David (Xian Lim), a photographer, has been married to his flight attendant wife Kanika (Coleen Garcia) for two years, and they live an intimate life as a couple. One day, though, David catches Kanika cheating on him with her co-worker (TJ Trinidad), and spends some time apart from his wife by going to Sin Island (short for Sinilaban Island). At the beach, David sees a tattooed woman named Tasha (Nathalie Hart), a fashion designer who is practicing her yoga, and the two begin an affair. Meanwhile, Kanika decides to repair her relationship with David, but finds herself in conflict with Tasha, who has eventually become his mistress.

The film starts off in a rather slow but effective introduction to the pitch perfect marriage of David and Kanika. As the story progresses, we witness David plunge into depression after his business falls down the drain. Because of what event, he eventually gave up on life and retreated into staying at home, cleaning the house and doing home based works. On the other hand, Kanika ends up feeling like she is the only one carrying their whole marriage and becomes exhausted of trying to bring back the old David. She ends up being attracted to a pilot (TJ Trinidad) which David soon discovers. This forced him to take the chance to getaway to Sinilaban Island (hence the title) where he meets Tasha whom he became close and ends up sleeping with her. But Kanika soon realizes that he loves her husband more so he goes after him and decided to fight for their marriage.

But what makes this film so much more enjoyable is that it knows how to have fun. And this is very visible with the laughter and screams in the cinema when we watch the film. Gino M. Santos is one of the most promising filmmakers in the country today. And so far, "Sin Island" is his most enjoyable and entertaining film to date.

Xian Lim took quite a big risk in accepting the role of David. It was so refreshing to see him in a character like this because we have been so accustomed to seeing him in romance comedies and dramas before. Coleen Garcia was really good in portraying the role of Kanika. She has definitely gone a long way when it comes to her acting since her first movie, the indie film #Y (also under the direction of Gino M. Santos). But the real break-out star of this film is Nathalie Hart who plays the antagonist Tasha. She is like the equivalent of Anne Curtis' Kara in "No Other Woman" and Glenn Close's Alex in "Fatal Attraction". Her character goes through a lot of transformation all throughout the film and she was able to be consistent in her character. She also gets to throw most of the film's funniest and unforgettable lines like "I only give my puta self to the man I love."

Technical-wise, this is one gorgeous picture. From the beautiful location of the island to the stunning cinematography, everything is just so pretty and perfect. The scene when David and Tasha first had sex was probably one of the most beautifully shot bed scenes I've seen. It's actually way better than the past "Fifty Shades" movies combined. The execution and direction of the scene was so artistic and sexy at the same time. Then, there are those zoom in shots of the characters which add some campy feel to the movie, like those films from the 80's.And don't start me with that alluring soundtrack featuring KZ Tandingan's cover of "Isang Linggong Pag-ibig".

 The film itself is made more fun because of the sudden shifts in tone from the first to the second half of the film. It change gears and turns into a "Fatal Attraction" type of thriller that will shock viewers and put everyone at the edge of their seats. People were really screaming during the final act of the film and it was so fun hearing them. I must say that Gino M. Santos definitively knows his genre because he maneuvers the film smoothly and very effectively. If he has other plans for a movie like this, then I am looking forward to it.

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