Of lost dreams and angst-ridden characters in ‘Third World Happy’

Of lost dreams and angst-ridden characters in ‘Third World Happy’

Of lost dreams and angst-ridden characters in ‘Third World Happy’ May 26, 2011 EJ Salcedo’s Cinema One Originals 2010 film “Third World Happy” has more to offer than the presence of mainstream movie and TV heartthrob Sam Milby. While “Third World Happy” drives home the point that not all Filipinos that try their luck abroad end up being successful, it also shows how these Pinoys, as the common [...] Tetsuya Nakashima’s ‘Confessions’ May 10, 2011 Confessions (Kokuhaku) is another example to the world that the Far East has taken revenge cinema to a whole new level over the past decade. Following in the elaborate vengeful footsteps of Park Chan-Wook’s Vengeance Trilogy, Confessions sees a teacher exact her punishment on the two pupils responsible for the death of her daughter. A [...]

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