Sure there are good Filipino films that attract the attention of quirky art awards bodies every now and then. But why are the hits confined to low-brow downright crappy flicks that cast the likes of Vice Ganda, Vic Sotto, and Kris Aquino? The key lies in the Filipino audience. Filipinos don’t like to think. Therefore…
Read More “Is the Philippine movie industry capable of improving its products?” »
Filipinos have long been renowned for claiming credit when ethnic Filipinos win or achieve stuff overseas. This is even if the social infrastructure that enabled a citizen to win or achieve said stuff was not anything Filipinos, their government, or their society contributed to building. Lately, news has gotten around that Australians (or at least…
Read More “Africa ultimately wins the #MissUniverse crown” »
For one thing, beauty pageants are all about pageantry. They’re not really platforms for sound political or philosophical discourse. Yet, the way the participants in this year’s Miss Universe pageant are being turned into avatars of the broader “debate”, you’d think beauty pageants are such deep wells of intellectual insight. The current focus of today’s…
Read More “SJW views on #MissUniverse reveal a confused position on “diversity” issues” »
It’s a Monday and, for us supposedly politically-aware folk on the Net, the start of another week tackling the issues of national consequence. We get out there issuing tweets and publishing Facebook posts to initiate debate and discussion around the important stuff that make and break nations (and win and lose elections). A noble undertaking,…
Nothing like the international star power of singer Lea Salonga can throw a spanner into the petty bickering that characterises the Philippines’ so-called political discourse. This she did in response to a Facebook post by prominent talent manager Ogie Diaz where he slammed Yellowtard social media personality Jesus Falcis for slandering actor Aga Muhlach for…
One can see the star power of Filipino actors Aga Muhlach and Bea Alonzo at work as he gives sound advise to Opposition “senator” Antonio Trillanes as he is interviewed by TV host Vice Ganda. Broadcast network ABS-CBN over which the show was aired had since attempted to purge all of the Internet of the…