October 18, 2024
Director; JJ Nadera
Writer: Miles Mendoza
Roland (Jhon Mark Marcia) and Iza (Marian Saint) had been married for seven years, but they had not yet been blessed with a child. Iza allowed her photographer best friend Raquel (Skye Gonzaga) to stay in their house while she had several jobs to do in the city. Raquel and Iza began to have carnal relations. One day, in an impulsive moment of weakness, Roland and Raquel also succumbed to temptation of the flesh.
The plot of this film was so predictable, you just want to fast-forward through to the end. The moment Raquel came to stay in their house, viewers already knew she would have sex with Iza and Roland. When we learn that the couple was having difficulty conceiving a child, it already suggested that someone else will get pregnant and this baby will have an impact on the final outcome. That decision at the end saved the story from total boredom. 2/10
Director: Sigrid Polon
Writer: Sigrid Polon
Nerdy Aly (Rica Gonzales) and party girl Sophia (Athena Red) were best of friends. Aly harbored carnal desires on Sophia, but was too shy to confess. To learn the ways of lovemaking, Aly got lessons in sex from a boy she met in a party, Mario (Van Allen Ong), but she always imagined Sophia in his place. Meanwhile, Sophia carried on an illicit affair with a predatorial professor Sir Gino Torres (Emil Sandoval).
Rica Gonzales and Athena Red had no chemistry going on between them as friends nor as lovers, so their scenes together felt forced and were very boring. For a second time since "Tahong" just recently, Emil Sandoval played another predator in position who gets a teenager in trouble, and he was quite realistic playing this type of pervert. Like his previous films, Van Allen Ong had a good screen presence, too bad his role here went nowhere. 2/10
HALINGHING
Director: Jaq
Writer: J Laspuna
Photographer Randie (Aiko Garcia) has been assigned by her boss Tasha (Marinella Sheen), to a handle a confidential book project about actress Faith Sanders (Jenn Rosa), which was due in one month. Faith had been involved in the death of her band guitarist Mark Antonio (Josef Elizalde). Randie was tasked to get close to Faith so that she would open up to her. It just so happened that Randie was lesbian and Faith was bisexual.
This could have been a interesting story, since there was a murder mystery in the mix. However, director JAQ spent more time on developing the relationship between Randie and Faith, that the story of Mark's death seemed to have been lost in the shuffle. Instead, we see the same rape scene of Faith's GF (Millana Ross) repeated three times. A saving grace was Randie's potty-mouthed housemate Candy (Patani) who was quite funny. 3/10.
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