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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

8 years

I invite you all to tell the true story of the Marcoses. #RPNonFiction

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Phil Dy

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2 years

I hope Ka Leody at least ends up in a cabinet position. He's a person that needs to be in the room where it happens.

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2 years

Hey, usually when you see that many people out in the streets in the Philippines, a president gets ousted.

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Phil Dy

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2 years

Si De Lima daw kabit ng driver. Si Leni may bagong boyfriend. Anak niya may video. Ang consistent talaga ng pag-atake nila sa mga babaeng kinakalaban nila.

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Phil Dy

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4 years

I want a government that believes in the Filipino.

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Phil Dy

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2 years

Wasn't automation supposed to make voting -easier-?

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Phil Dy

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3 years

They didn't listen to doctors. They didn't listen to experts. They put military men in charge, and kept arresting people for trying to make a living in the absence of any real help. We are back here because they didn't really try to solve anything. They'd rather we be trapped.

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Phil Dy

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2 years

I once asked Paul Soriano why he produced Lav Diaz films, and he said he just wanted a chance to learn from him. Apparently, he learned nothing.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

4 years

Feed the hungry. Cure the sick. Support the frontliners. And goddammit stop arresting people.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

May we elect a leader that knows what it's like to take a bus home to the province.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

6 months

Enrile outliving Kathniel is proof of a cruel universe.

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Phil Dy

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4 years

Justice feels impossible in the Philippines.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

Is it a cold, or is it COVID? That is our reality now.

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Phil Dy

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4 years

I'm offering 50 million pesos to anyone who can convince me that this government isn't garbage.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

4 years

So, let me explain: This is a live script reading of That Thing Called Tadhana, featuring writer/director Antoinette Jadaone reading her own work, with Bea Alonzo and John Lloyd Cruz as Mace and Anthony.

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Phil Dy

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2 years

Everyone should get a chance to yell at Gadon at some point in their lives.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

3 years

Years from now, if we make it that far, don't let anyone ever say that Duterte was a good president.

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Phil Dy

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2 years

I mean, it's true no one should have to work eighteen hours in a day. But to put on the blame on the worker is some real oppressor bullshit.

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Phil Dy

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5 months

Sana magalit din kayo sa Jeepney phaseout.

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Phil Dy

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1 year

SM is running an electric bus service from SM Fairview to Megamall and back. It's 100 pesos all the way, and you pay through an app. It's kind of neat, though they're still ironing out a lot of technical kinks.

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Phil Dy

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3 years

More fun in the Philippines.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

5 years

I have zero patience left for people who don't watch Filipino films but insist that Filipino films are just somehow inherently inferior.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

3 years

I don't know who needs to hear this, but infrastructure projects don't make up for the deaths of thousands of people and the general erosion of human rights.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

4 years

Very cold take: the SONA doesn't need a director. It doesn't even really need visuals. We could probably even just do with a transcript. Just give us the information, you drama queens.

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Phil Dy

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2 years

I, too, would like to declare my intention of never again attending a Zoom meeting for fear of COVID spread.

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Phil Dy

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2 years

I feel like having free Facebook has had many terrible consequences for the Philippines.

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Phil Dy

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5 years

Why I'm skipping the MMFF: a thread

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Phil Dy

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2 years

It would be wonderful and poetic if a campaign built on online disinformation was defeated by a campaign built on people talking face to face.

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Phil Dy

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2 years

I'd really like for the world to be talking about the Philippines as one of the countries that's turning things around, rejecting the global tide of authoritarianism, voting for competence and decency amid an environment of deception.

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Phil Dy

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2 years

Isko boasting about using guidance from England's COVID response would be more meaningful if England was known for having a good COVID response.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

Mga hindi nawawalan ng pag-asa para kay Leni.

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Phil Dy

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4 years

Your daily reminder that the world still doesn't acknowledge Taiwan.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

The thing is, BBM knows that the biggest liability to the BBM campaign is himself.

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Phil Dy

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3 years

I don't need a Western TV show making fun of the Marcoses. I need the Marcoses in prison for their crimes.

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Phil Dy

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4 years

The Philippine government is terrible everyday, but today it felt like they really went the extra mile to be the highest form of awful.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

6 years

Films don't turn people into rebels. Oppressive governments do,

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

Ang Nawawala (2012, Marie Jamora)

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

4 years

All Duterte ever does is make threats.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

Oh, I forgot, he follows me on here. Sup, @paulsoriano1017 ? Talked to any martial law victims lately? You really should.

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Phil Dy

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4 years

It means nothing when a lawless government says that they're just following the law.

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Phil Dy

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4 years

I have this feeling that government never prioritizes disaster preparedness because disaster relief makes for the better photo op.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

Pag sinabi ng PNP na 70k-80k lang yung dumalo sa Pasay para sa rally, isipin niyo na rin yung mga sinabi nilang mga 'adik' o 'nanlaban.'

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

4 years

It really feels like the government thinks the pandemic is a PR problem instead of a health problem.

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Phil Dy

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5 years

I have plenty of issues with this last season of Game of Thrones, but I am more tired of people who think they're entitled to getting everything they want from the art that they're consuming.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

Really wild how a mother's trip to attend her daughter's graduation has generated so much outrage. But this is our reality for at least the next six years.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

Hindi po 'negative campaigning' ang katotohanan.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

5 years

Ang Probinsyano is presented as fiction. Objecting to fiction only serves to make it seem more true.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

3 years

In the eyes of this government, we're all just drug users and communists.

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Phil Dy

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2 years

Keep an eye on history books.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

5 years

I'm so fucking tired of hearing our president talk.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

Here's something I want everyone to understand: if Leni does something I don't like, I will call her out on it. Like, I think her stance on divorce is bad. But in the balance books, I'll take that over "son of a dictator who's lived off stolen money for most of his life."

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Phil Dy

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6 years

I want to say that I don't know the truth behind the Chiong case. I do know, based on all my experience as a film critic, that Jacqueline comes home is a tasteless, shitty film.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

Just FYI, the release of SALN by public officials isn't optional. It's the law. Duterte (and the government at large) set a really bad precedent with the non-enforcement.

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Phil Dy

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4 years

It's true! An exclusive club inside a high rise in one of the more exclusive sections of Metro Manila is screening Parasite tomorrow. 500 a ticket for members. 800 for regular people. L Everything is broken.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

Hindi ako nahihiya sa ibang bansa na babalik ang pamilyang Marcos sa pamumuno ng bansa. Nahihiya ako kay Archimedes Trajano. Kay Liliosa Hilao. Kay Eman Lacaba. Sa mga biktima ng Palimbang Massacre. Sa mga pamilyang hindi pa rin nakakamit ang hustisya.

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Phil Dy

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5 years

Hello, Love, Goodbye ('19 Cathy Garcia-Molina): Not super sold on the central relationship, but otherwise a really smart, heartfelt OFW story.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

4 years

The government needs to stop operating on the assumption that people are outside because they're disobedient troublemakers. If they really want everyone to stay inside, give everyone enough food to last the quarantine and access to medical services.

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Phil Dy

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4 years

The government's strategy has always been to push the narrative that the Filipino is bad: undisciplined, drug-addicted masses that just want to make trouble, unworthy of any help or mercy. This crisis, with its clear victims and clear heroes, is wrecking them.

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Phil Dy

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5 years

I thought drugs were the big threat to this country. And yet, it's Maria Ressa that's been arrested multiple times.

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Phil Dy

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4 years

Not watching Duterte's briefings live has been the best decision I've made during this quarantine.

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Phil Dy

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10 months

So, @Puregold_PH is hosting its own film festival, giving away P2.5M grants to five filmmakers for full-length films, and P100K to 25 student filmmakers for shorts.

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Phil Dy

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7 years

Can we stop pretending that the "mainstream" films were rejected because they were mainstream? One of the top picks is a Star Cinema romcom.

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Phil Dy

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3 years

Patay Na si Hesus, Apocalypse Child, and Balangiga: Howling Wilderness are all dropping on Netflix on Sunday.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

4 years

I want to live in a world where we never hear anything from Larry Gadon ever again.

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Phil Dy

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2 years

You can really feel in the way the president speaks how the problems of the country don't personally affect him.

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Phil Dy

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8 years

You move on from an ex. You don't move on from the systematic oppression of a people. You don't move on from Martial Law.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

A movie ticket at Trinoma is 390. That feels insane to me.

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Phil Dy

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5 years

Ulan ('19 Irene Villamor): A little goofy, but also bracingly sincere. There is nothing out there quite like this.

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Phil Dy

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3 years

I do not know if a candidate in the Philippines can actually win trying to tell people to be kind to each other. But I'm happy to see someone try.

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Phil Dy

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4 years

I fear that a curfew will lead to a lot of unnecessary arrests, which might mean putting a lot of people together in confined spaces. Which is totally what we don't want right now.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

3 years

Red tag, now gold medal.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

Hey guys just want to let you know that if you try to speak Chinese by just reading pinyin phonetically, you're probably going to sound ridiculous.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

4 years

It is never the poor that is doing the damage.

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Phil Dy

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4 years

This government is in no place to judge anyone's morality.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

7 years

Dear PNP, Please stop murdering our kids. Actually, please stop murdering. Period. Shouldn't have to be said. No love, Phil

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

4 years

There's the gaslight again: Duterte talking like it's the wild west out there, with people roaming the streets, encouraging each other to break the law. PEOPLE. ARE. HUNGRY.

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Phil Dy

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6 years

Dear Tito Sotto, There is no positive correlation between access to porn sites and teenage pregnancy. If anything, they seem to actually lower rates. Want to lower rates of teenage pregnancy? Make it easier to access reliable birth control. Love, Phil

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Phil Dy

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3 years

Look, if you think community pantries are so dangerous, then make them unnecessary.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

3 years

A vaccination center would be a lot more useful if we had vaccines.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

Hindi lang ito sinungaling. Ang pinapalabas nila, kailangan maging birhen ang mga babae. Bawal sa kanila ang kahit anong sekswalidad. Kasi, okay lang naman na may kabit si Duterte. Okay lang ang lahat ng kabalbalan ni Robin Padilla. Pero katawa-tawa ang babaeng may pagnanais.

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Phil Dy

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5 years

A note about 'Hello, Love, Goodbye'

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

5 years

I'd like to make clear that giving up on the MMFF does not mean giving up on Filipino cinema.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

If nothing else, we got Ka Leody standing on stage at Okada, not backing down from a loaded question, telling people that we should have peace talks with the NPA. That's king shit.

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Phil Dy

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2 years

Marcos has ran a campaign on one thing: the denial of reality. And if he wins, we will not be able to trust a single thing the government says.

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Phil Dy

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4 years

Marcos was a monster. That is all.

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Phil Dy

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4 years

Ang Huling El Bimbo: The Musical ('18 Dexter Santos): Gee, that lady sure did get raped. Those poor boys. Hopefully they'll learn something from her dying.

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Phil Dy

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3 years

The government has all the power, and yet the people are always to blame.

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Phil Dy

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3 years

This government really hates competent leaders.

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Phil Dy

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3 years

My favorite marketing strategy is "we'll never be number one so let's just get weird."

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

3 years

These Filipino movies are currently all free to watch on Tubi.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

Kind of baffled how right now, it feels like the US wants to become more like the Philippines.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

4 years

#unconfinedcinema

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

5 months

Here's what Gateway Cineplex 18 looks like.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

11,103 is a new documentary about Martial Law victims. There will be a free outdoor screening on September 21 at Bantayog ng mga Bayani.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

3 years

Metro Manila doesn't need more roads. It needs fewer cars.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

4 years

Remember when the government slandered a bunch of people by implicating them in sedition through a "matrix?"

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

7 years

If you could confirm criminality through social media, the President would already be in prison.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

5 years

I'm not going to tell you to boycott Bato. I am going to tell you, though, with what little authority working as a professional film critic for decade might give me, that it's a shit movie.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

6 years

Dear @Netflix , @NetflixAsia A pro-Duterte, pro-drug war series from Brillante Mendoza is a bad fit for your platform. Love, Phil

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

3 years

That was a great speech.

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Phil Dy

@philbertdy

2 years

Again: we don't need the MTRCB to have jurisdiction over online content. We don't need the MTRCB at all.

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