https://mrqe.com Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:30:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/macho-dancer-m100052024/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/macho-dancer-m100052024/ Abandoned by his American lover, a handsome teenager from the mountains journeys to Manila in an effort to support his family. With a popular call boy as his mentor, Paul enters the glittering world of male strippers, prostitution, drugs, sexual slavery, police corruption and murder. Teeming with sex and Asian beefcake, Macho Dancer is a searing indictment of the hypocrisy and police corruption rampant under both the Marcos and Aquino regimes.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/burlesk-king-m100000228/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/burlesk-king-m100000228/ Harry leaves Olongapo, the former site of American bases, with his best friend James. They end up in Manila where they soon find work as macho dancers in a gay bar run by Mama Odette. Harry has a troubled past — his American father used to pimp him and his mother, Betty. When his father accidentally killed his mother, Harry struck out on his own. He made a vow to kill his father.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/orapronobis-m100056609/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/orapronobis-m100056609/ Set during the post-Marcos regime in a remote village of Dolores, chronicles the life of Jimmy Cordero, a political prisoner who have just been freed from prison after the decline of the Marcos dictatorship. From his revolutionary past, he got himself into human rights activism following his prison release. He and his wifes brother once conducted a fact-finding mission to Dolores only to find out the terror brought about to its residents by the Orapronobis, a government backed anti-communist paramilitary troop deployed in the town of Dolores.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/himala-m100111556/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/himala-m100111556/ When plain orphan Elsa begins having visions of the Virgin Mary, the rest of the residents of her isolated village find themselves questioning their own beliefs and values. Soon, Elsa is healing people with a variety of ailments. As word of this phenomenon spreads, tourists, pilgrims, patients and a documentary filmmaker all arrive on a quest to partake in the miracle.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/cinq-et-la-peau-m100044680/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/cinq-et-la-peau-m100044680/ Ivan, a writer living in Manila, walks through the city in search of his past.

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