Joonee Gamboa – MRQE

W (1983/II)

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Filipino director Willy Milan’s first entry into the Maxsploitation sub-sub-genre.

Oda sa wala

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sonya, an old maid is about to give up on herself until one day, she meets a corpse in her family’s embalming business that changes her life.

Bayaning Third World

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two filmmakers try to create a film venturing on the life of Jose Rizal. Before they do that, they try to investigate on the heroism of the Philippine national hero. Of particular focus is his supposed retraction of his views against the Roman Catholic Church during the Spanish regime in the Philippines which he expressed primarily through his two novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. The investigation was done mainly by “interviewing” key individuals in the life of Rizal such as his mother Teodora Alonso, his siblings Paciano, Trinidad, and Narcisa, his love interest and supposed wife Josephine Bracken, and the Jesuit priest who supposedly witnessed Rizal’s retraction, Fr. Balaguer. Eventually, the two filmmakers would end up “interviewing” Rizal himself to get to the bottom of the issue.

Demonstone

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two U.S. Marine investigators looking into a series of grisly murders in Manila discover that the crimes are tied to an amulet with a 400-year-old curse on it that has unleashed supernatural forces.

Death Force

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Leon Isaac Kennedy is Doug Russell, an American who steals a shipment of gold in the Philippines with two Vietnam War buddies, who cut his throat and throw him overboard. Russell washes ashore an island inhabited by two Japanese soldiers stranded there since World War II. They nurse him back to health and he is taught martial arts and the art of the samurai. Back in the States, his treacherous pals, Marelli and Maghee, use their loot and viciousness to muscle their way into Los Angels mafia turf.

Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young fisherman from a provincial village arrives in the capital on a quest to track down his girlfriend, who was lured there with the promise of work and hasnt been heard from since. In the meantime, he takes a low-wage job at a construction site and witnesses life on the streets, where death strikes without warning, corruption and exploitation are commonplace, and protests hint at escalating civil unrest.