Overview Ligaw, a Filipino romantic drama that premiered on VMXs streaming platform in May 2025, runs just over seventy-five minutes and carries a strict R-18 rating. Set in an isolated provincial barrio, the story centers on Dolores, who outwardly tends to her paraplegic husband with unwavering devotion. Everything shifts when she slips into a secret […]
🎬 Overview The Girl Next Door pretends to be a teenage sex comedy like American Pie, but it has deeper aspirations than that. Intertwining a coming-of-age romance with elements of raunch, crime-caper excitement, and light satire on the film industry, this film looks at the conflict between idealism and cynicism through the unanticipated romance between
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🎬 Overview Desire is an erotic psychological thriller set in Argentina during the late 1960s. The plot centers on two sisters—Ofelia and Lucía—who have been estranged for years until a family wedding brings them together. This reunion triggers a series of forbidden lust, jealousy, and emotional manipulation. The film’s high-gloss period aesthetic alongside themes of
🎬 Overview The After We Fell story is the third chapter of the After movie series, which is based on the books written by Anna Todd. After We Fell cinematizes the turbulent love story of Tessa and Hardin, the two main characters of the novel. This film release focuses on flashbacks and sulking sequences filled
🎬 Overview The Lost City is an adventure rom-com that is both old-school and splashy: it wears its influences—Romancing the Stone, Raiders of the Lost Ark and even a bit of Tropic Thunder—right on its sleeve. It is a throwback with a twist, featuring self-aware humor, physical comedy, and lush jungle settings as the backdrop
🎬 Overview Oxygène (Oxygen) is another claustrophobic French Sci-Fi thriller directed by Alexandre Aja, who is notorious for his gore-heavy films High Tension and Crawl. Here he switches from visceral excitement to psychological tension with a more cerebral survival horror film that takes place entirely within a state-of-the-art cryogenic pod. Reflecting elements of Buried, Moon,
🎬 Overview With Tomorrowland, Bird (The Incredibles, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) set out to create a sci-fi adventure infused with optimism, a response to the overtly dystopian cinema of the 2010s. The film serves as a loose counterpart to the Disneyland section of Tomorrowland and is a cinematic ode to visionaries and idealists. Unfortunately,
🎬 Overview Argylle continues the trend of stylish spy-action-comedy films by Matthew Vaughn, who is best known for his hyper-kinetic Kingsman franchise. Here, he aims to take things one layer deeper—or higher, depending on your tolerance for meta-narratives—by crafting a spy film about a spy novelist who becomes embroiled in actual espionage that parallels the
🎬 Overview Finding a romantic comedy that is delightful, witty, emotional, and truly smart is a rarity, but Crazy, Stupid, Love. achieves that with panache. This film is directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (I Love You Phillip Morris), and features a great cast. It offers a deep yet breezy narrative on love throughout
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🎬 Overview Indecent Proposal remains one of the most discussed films from the early 90s for its complex moral considerations including love, marriage and fidelity intertwined with finances. As a thought experiment it provides shallow exploration of these concepts. It is best described as a glossy meditation rather than a full-fledged film. Much of the
