1+ week, 5+ day ago   (277+ words) Filipiñana, the striking debut feature by Filipino filmmaker Rafael Manuel, opens with a noisy street scene in Manila captured from inside a passenger van. In an immediate outburst, the driver nearly collides with a child pedestrian, horn blaring. After a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (638+ words) Spectrum Culture Interview-and-reenactment documentaries have taken on a life of their own over the years in the mainstream documentary space. With The Cycle of Love, director Orlando von Einsiedel delivers a film that safely plays to the strengths of the…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (765+ words) Spectrum Culture What’s that phrase — “if you don’t have kids, your thirties are like your twenties, but you have money?” There’s an element of truth here as there is to all phrases, though one can argue it’s not very applicable…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (889+ words) L’Rain: fata morgana Spectrum Culture Taja Cheek, who has released four albums as L’Rain, refuses genre boundaries on principle. She has explained why often enough, and yet is still labelled as “restless” or “experimental” because music needs tags. But that…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (646+ words) Spectrum Culture Despite — or perhaps because of — their slapdash, proudly provocative nature, these publications held enormous sway over the nascent republic, thanks in part to lax copyright laws and favorable postage rates, both boons bestowed by a young federal government…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1003+ words) Spectrum Culture Things were different by 2009. Outside of Michel Gondry’s excellent, misunderstood video rental love letter, Be Kind Rewind, the fulfilling roles Bey enjoyed in The Woodsman, Something the Lord Made and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy had failed to…...