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NOW SHOWING IN PHILIPPINE CINEMAS November 7, 2018 TIME FREAK – Rated PG OVERLORD – Rated R-16, Also in IMAX ML – Rated R-16 CLASS OF 2018 – Rated R-16 THE SUPER – Rated R-16 IDEAL DADS – Rated R-16 STILL SHOWING MY HERO ACADEMIA – Rated PG THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS – Rated PG TO LOVE SOME BUDDY …
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It’s not for the faint of heart. You may call Benedict Mique’s Cinemalaya 2018 hit ML a challenge for its disturbing choices of how to present what really happened during Martial Law to the youth today. The idea came when director Benedict Mique heard his niece talk about Martial Law like it was an event that was blown …
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ML – MARTIAL LAW (2018) by Benedict Mique If you’re a fan of Eli Roth or other bloody and other visually barbaric movies, this has got to be the movie you should see at the Cinemalaya Film Festival. ML, as the director said during the gala night, presented the gruesome tortures that have been done …
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It takes guts to write, produce and film a movie about Martial Law today. Not only does history being re-written today, more are uneducated of the events and chose to rely on Facebook memes and fake news. Brave are those who still choose to tell their stories amid the hate, the bashing and sometimes, worse. …
“May napatay ba kayo no’n, Dad? May tinorture kayo?” Watch the teaser for Benedict Mique Jr.’s Martial Law-era film ML starring Eddie Garcia and Tony Labrusca: In “ML” by Benedict Mique Jr., Carlo meets Colonel, an old resident in their village who was a former soldier during the Marcos regime. After learning how the Colonel cruelly tortured student …
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