English Only Please: Word-of-Mouth Really Works

I don't normally watch any movie during the MMFF unless Nora Aunor has a movie showing but since most of my friends watched English Only Please - and had nice things to say about it, I decided to give it a chance, making it the second movie I watched in 2015.

It was a very pleasant movie to watch mainly because both protagonists were easy on the eyes.  This is actually the first time I've seen Jennylyn Mercado act and she's quite refreshing to see!  I think she was the real anchor of this movie.  There is palpable chemistry between her and Derek and it was not pilit.   You actually want them to end up with each other! This happens a bit easily though because no major conflict was introduced by the screenwriter.

Even then, it's a nice comedy rom-com to watch - and I liked it that the characters just talked and talked.  I'm actually a fan of that type of rom-com.  

I hope they get to use Jennylyn more in more movies in the future.  She can act and she's pretty and articulate.  This movie opened without much fanfare but I watched it 18 DAYS after it opened - and the cinema was still full!  Word of mouth really works!

Movie Review: No Other Woman Provides An Entertaining Catfight

The long lines in the cinemas these past two weeks has surprisingly been for a local movie called No Other Woman which is about an adulterous affair and the catfight that ensues after.  Well, there's really not much spin you can put into an a story about adultery - it has been done very well so many times over in the past but what keeps the people interested in this movie is its deliciously sharp script which the audience has promptly posted in their Facebook profiles or regurgitated into their office or school conversations! It also does help that the guy they're fighting for is in fact drool-worthy and can believably be someone two attractive women would actually fight for! 

I have seen Anne Curtis in Who's That Girl, but she portrays a more mature role here, which she does well.  This is the first time I've seen Cristine Reyes act and she cleverly balances the retiscent nature of her character - uneasily uncomfortable with what she has to do to protect her turf.  As for Derek Ramsay, well, he's just plain delicious in the movie, like a cub these two lionnesses would want to cuddle in their arms!

It's great that another local movie is blasting Hollywood and some of its banal offerings this week.  This is the second straight adultery movie which I think did well in the tills - My Neighbor's Wife played to arguably lesser audience numbers but since it ran for two weeks, I assumed it also did well.  It's good that they've put the Sarah Geronimo-John Lloyd pacute act for a while.  What happens after two people fall in love is actually more exciting!