[Editor’s note: This story, first published on January 7, 2021 and updated today, is brought to you from our Star Cinema Archives.] The 2000s, in a nutshell: We were obsessed with telebabad, forced ...

In the Preface to the book “100 Sine Film Pelikula: the 100+ Greatest Movies of Philippine Cinema” (Summit Books, 2026), the author Jo-Ann Q. Maglipon,who collaborated with film scholar Joel David, ...