Jowana Bueser

Senator Robin Padilla made a brief but impassioned manifestation calling on the ban of Gerard Butler’s latest action film Plane. In particular, the neophyte legislator decried the fictional depiction of the Philippines, “Alam niyo po, napakasakit lang po. Dito sa kanilang pelikula, sinasabi ang ating awtoridad ay naduwag na sa mga rebelde, hindi na po sila umaaksyon at sinabi pa dito, ‘they went down somewhere in the Jolo island cluster. It’s run by separatists and militias.

Fresh off its Palm d’Or win at the Festival de Cannes 2022, Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness docks on Philippine shores, with TBA Studios securing the rights to distribute the film. Taking to their Twitter account, TBA Studios says: Triangle of Sadness made waves after its premiere, where critics raved about its sharp, queasy ruminations on class politics.

In a move that feels like a last-ditch moment of futurism cosplay, Facebook announced in October 2021 that the new meta in social media wars was to rebrand as — simply — Meta. No longer is Mark Zuckerberg in the business of fondling your personal data in the real world; instead, he will do it in a virtual world of his own.