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Armando Dela Cruz

(He/Him)
Philippines
As seen in: Medium, Substack, CBR, Rappler, Letterboxd, ScreenAnarchy, LIVING LIFE FEARLESS
Covers:  Movies, Television, Entertainment, Literature, Culture
a boy and his field notes yapping (a lot) about horror: @deepcutshorror writing (not enough) about ph cinema: @unreelph

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Armando Dela Cruz’s Biography

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My name is Armand. I write about movies (really, mostly horror movies!) and pop culture. I work for Rappler and run the film websites Unreel and Deep Cuts.

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'Nope' review - Why we can't look away

'Nope' review - Why we can't look away

This post originally appeared in my horror newsletter, . It's always been part of human nature to be bound to…

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'The Nowhere Inn' review - Unwritten memoirs

'The Nowhere Inn' review - Unwritten memoirs

At a turning point in The Nowhere Inn, a woman, clad in bright-colored latex, quips to the camera. "This is h…

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For Celeste Lapida and Kaj Palanca, the future is queer

For Celeste Lapida and Kaj Palanca, the future is queer

It was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that said: "All grown-ups were once children, but only a few of them remember…

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ScreenAnarchy's Top Ten Films of 2019

ScreenAnarchy's Top Ten Films of 2019

As 2019 comes to an end, ScreenAnarchy’s global team of critics and cineastes weighs in with our favourite ci…

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Sundance 2018 Review: RUST, An Intriguing, Split-Screen Portrait of Abuse

Sundance 2018 Review: RUST, An Intriguing, Split-Screen Portrait of Abuse

Aly Muritiba’s Ferrugem (lit. Rust) opens with a haunting shot of a gymnotiform. It rears its head out of the…

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Saul Goodman is set to star in his own 'John Wick' style movie

Saul Goodman is set to star in his own 'John Wick' style movie

By default, stories about retired assassins building normal lives are funny. We've seen this play out most pr…

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Cinemalaya 2025 Shorts, reviewed - True indie mix

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By Armando Dela Cruz
| unreelph.net
THIS YEAR’S CINEMALAYA has been pretty hectic for me. I’ve pushed past thirty officially this year, meaning four-film marathons a day is about as daunting as a Spartan Race that my friends have officially failed coaxing me into joining in my twenties. But there’s renewed comfort in knowing I’m completing another local film festival again, and writing about it. At a snail’s pace, but still. Unreel is partially reader-funded.
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Lav Diaz's historical epic 'Magellan' premieres at Cannes 2025

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By Armando Dela Cruz
| unreelph.net
CANNES 2025 MADE AN UPDATE on its Official Selection with sixteen new titles to make premiere, including Lav Diaz’s much-anticipated film about explorer Ferdinand Magellan, simply titled Magellan. Magellan’s quest would lead to the first successful circumnavigation of the earth in the 16th Century and a violent end in a gruesome clash in Cebu against the Filipino datu, Lapu-Lapu.
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'Sinners' shows big fangtasia

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By Armando Dela Cruz
| deepcutshorror.com
THE BLUES AREN’T THE SAME in Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s soulful foray into period horror, a genre so few people, if at all, would associate with his work. That being said, the film, set against a Southern backdrop so obstinately Jim Crow, is most identifiably his, replete with striking Black imagery and well-observed critiques of America’s racist roots — like if Colson Whitehead wrote a bluesy rendition of Demon Night or Assault on Precinct 13.
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What's your favorite social network?

Twitter

Why did you become a journalist?

Like all others, out of necessity. Few people report on movies in the Philippines.

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

I did, for a while. I wrote copy for editorial cartoons.