Sukdulan

Elaine (Katya Santos) and Orly (Raymond Bagatsing) are a young couple whose marriage is in shambles because of a dysfunctional sex life.

He works as a delivery van driver during the day while she works as a tollbooth clerk at night... each one barely having time for the other.

But while Orly finds solace in the rountine, Elaine feels trapped.

Until she meets Miguel (Carlo Maceda), a young playboy, who introduces her to an exciting and exhilarating world that liberates her from an otherwise boring existence.

With each sexual encounter, Elaine becomes more daring, matching Miguel's appetite for life and sex.

What starts out as a game of pleasure turns out to be an experience that will change their lives forever.

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Bigasan

Bigasan is one of those films that feel overly familiar, as if everything in it is something that you’ve seen before. It rehashes every faux-indie plot produced in the last five years, tacking on only the most facile of changes. But if the only crime Bigasan committed was being familiar, that wouldn’t be too bad. The bigger problem is that none of the stories actually go anywhere, the movie feeling like seventy minutes of wheel-spinning and fabricated drama. Bigasan tells the story of a poor community regularly by government trucks selling rice at subsidized prices. The people line up for hours to get their share of the rice, while those who don’t have money to pay for their meager portion end up doing all sorts of things in order to get food on the table. There’s the mother (Ana Capri) who pimps out her teenage son to a gay benefactor. There’s young mother who prostitutes herself. There’s her husband who works despite having tuberculosis. There’s the elderly woman who lives off the scraps of a ruthless loan shark.

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Heavenly Touch

Heavenly Touch is director Joel Lamangan’s latest foray into independent filmmaking, and once again, he returns to the realm of the ever-profitable gay-themed movie. And yet again, this movie is little more than an excuse to show off some male genitalia, offering little to the moviegoer who goes to the cinemas for coherent stories or good filmmaking. Heavenly Touch is an ugly wreck of a film, one that doesn’t think that stories matter at all. Jonard (Joash Balejado) is having trouble making ends meet. His mother is suffering from depression, and he and his sister are forced to quit school in order to take care of her. One day, Jonard meets up his friend Rodel (Paolo Serrano), and Rodel introduces him to the world of massage parlors. Rodel teaches him massage, and brings him to Heavenly Touch, a syndicate-run massage parlor that mostly caters to homosexuals. As Jonard grows comfortable with his new life, he finds himself getting closer to Rodel. But when the threat of eviction looms, Jonard is forced to do things he never thought he’d do.

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